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Saddle up and build your own horse ranch! Raise foals, care for your horses and train them as you explore the countryside. Participate in cross country competitions and become your town's champion! Befriend the villagers who'll help you on your adventure at the Ranch of Rivershine!
The Ranch of Rivershine is a simulation, horses and farming sim game
developed and published by Cozy Bee Games.
Released on May 23rd 2025 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
It has received 1,563 reviews of which 1,465 were positive and 98 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 17.19€ on Eneba.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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I have a love and hate relationship with this game. In some ways, it’s wonderful, and in others, not so much. This review covers how the game works based on my experience, along with my own opinions to help with your purchase decision. Money Making There are three main ways to make money: competitions, horse auctions, and farming/ranching. Competitions are the most obvious and are required to progress the story and unlock future horse breeds and variants, but early and mid-game they give you under 3K and take the longest. Horse auctions, however, are incredibly lucrative. Even a horse bought at auction will sell for more if you win competitions with them. I spent most of the game breeding generations of horses, primarily from wild horses to cut costs (capitalism!), and easily reached 100K+ this way. The downside is that it takes time, although I personally enjoy it. Farming and ranching are decent passive income, but they’re the least engaging part of the gameplay loop for me. You essentially place crops in the correct season and return later to harvest them; ranching works similarly with animal feed, eggs, and fur. It requires little input for a decent return, but nowhere near as much as horse selling. Its biggest benefit is leaving you free to focus on your horses. I mostly use farming to avoid buying harvestables directly from the Farmer NPC. Horse Training & Competitions The only actual race type is cross-country. Festivals occasionally offer a barrel-style flexibility competition, but these happen roughly every two weeks. I understand why people wish there were other disciplines like dressage, especially since multiple competition types could have made the game stand out. Because there’s only one main race type, there’s little reason to seriously strategize around horse training and skills. This makes the game accessible for casual players, but without difficulty customization, it can also become boring. Training is mostly a time investment rather than an active activity. You can put horses or foals in the training corral and let them train themselves, but this takes a long time and is extremely hands-off. Adult horses can use specialty arenas like the Speed or Flexibility Arena, which drain stamina quickly and let you finish training in under a minute. Riding your horse around can also train them, but it’s slow and becomes impractical with multiple horses. Honestly, none of these options feel particularly satisfying. The training corral requires you to basically tab out and wait, while the specialty arenas feel like you magically increased your horse’s stats rather than actually trained them. Riding is potentially more fun, but quickly becomes repetitive and time-consuming. NPCs The NPCs are one of the weaker parts of the game. Their 2D designs and portraits are adorable, but their 3D models are uncanny, and the only interactable NPCs are shopkeepers. NPCs have very little impact beyond buying and selling. Their quests are essentially fetch quests, and there’s no real way to get to know them through horse-related activities. They have a relationship bar, but the only real interaction is a once-a-day “chat.” There are no long-term relationship goals, romance options, or meaningful changes from befriending them. Horse Care & Breeding This is where the game truly shines. The horses are beautiful and well-made, with tons of colors and markings. The best part is breeding them and seeing what combinations you get, then taking those horses into competitions and showing them off. Horses have personality traits, but most have minimal gameplay impact. Some can improve skills, competition earnings, or collectible harvesting, but they don’t do much to make horses feel fundamentally different. They’re mostly the same horse in different colors. Personally, I enjoy the brushing and stall-cleaning activities, so traits that remove those tasks aren’t particularly useful to me. Breeding does have a real purpose. Each generation can increase a horse’s skill tier based on its parents, breeding is required for certain achievements, and some coat variations can only be obtained through breeding. Foals also inherit aspects of their parents’ skills. The breeding system honestly feels a lot like a fashion/dress-up game. The horse is essentially the same “character,” but you can create different “outfits” through genetics, rare combinations, and careful breeding. I find this incredibly fun, especially alongside the customization options. Customization There’s no difficulty customization, but there’s plenty of customization for horses and your character. You can dye manes and tails, change hairstyles, alter tack, add blankets, and more. Your player character can also have their hair and appearance changed at any time. You can buy additional horse and human customization from shopkeepers, save outfits, and create special competition outfits. Like breeding, this game often feels like a fashion/dress-up game, and I enjoy that aspect. Customization also gives you a reason to earn money so you can buy the things you want. Regions: Environment & Trail Rides The game has several regions, including a sandy coastline, a meadow filled with sheep and wildflowers, and a dense pine forest with rabbits. Each region has unique collectibles, wild horse traits, a specialty arena, and its own music track. And speaking of music: music GOOD! Music also repetitive. End of music discussion. Collecting items is somewhat annoying early on because you repeatedly have to dismount, pick things up, and remount. Later, pets can collect items for you while you remain on horseback. The unique collectibles do give you reasons to keep visiting different regions. The trail rides themselves are more mixed. I initially found them charming, but the more I played, the more I noticed how much empty space there is. The regions are visually distinct and have different purposes, but they often feel more focused on size than meaningful design. There aren’t many memorable landmarks beyond the shopkeeper house, arenas, and wild horse pen. For example, a pond with frogs and lily pads that you ride across via stepping stones feels memorable. But if you encounter endless copy-pasted ponds, none of them feel particularly meaningful. The environments are pretty, but they can become repetitive. Wild Horses Wild horses are an alternative to auctions and can be found in almost every unlocked region except town. You can purchase upgrades that increase their skill tiers as you progress, meaning wild horses remain relevant throughout the game. Each region also has its own wild horse traits. Wild horses have historically been a little buggy. Before the most recent update, you had to corral them one at a time. As of this review on 9/11/2026, you can now corral entire herds, and they stay at your horse’s pace.They can still get stuck on things, especially in dense areas, so some finagling is occasionally required. The taming process is straightforward: find a herd, herd it into the pen, interact with each horse to learn its traits, then choose whether you want one. Herds disappear after a horse is chosen. I personally find this pretty fun, even when it bugs out. You can also rescue sick horses from the wild, which makes it easier to become emotionally invested in them. Conclusion This game is great for people who love horses, dress-up, and don’t mind a time investment or a casual playstyle. Even if you only enjoy one of those things, you’ll probably find something to like. Compared to other horse games, it depends on what you want. This game focuses exclusively on cross-country, while others often focus on flat racing or different aspects of horse management. I think this game is especially good if you enjoy breeding, genetics, cross-country, and customization.
No bells/whistles and I mean that in the absolute best way possible. Game knows exactly what it wants to be & how to do that, no unnecessary or bloated features. It's a horse-raising horse-riding sim and absolutely everything is built around servicing that gameplay loop & making it really fun. QoL is insanely good it's going to make other farm sim-type games suck to go back to. Dev fully understands what makes this game fun and puts in every detail possible to keep that going w/out distractions or detractions. You've heard of economic storytelling? This is economic game design at its best. Art style is a great example: does this game have Super Modern Realistic High-Quality Textures & Lighting? No, and it would be worse for wasting its time w/them; it's perfect for what it is, just the right level of detail and balance of cartoon/realistic to get across exactly what it needs to. The horses are adorable, the people are cute but not "cartoony," the 2d art is absolutely GORGEOUS. I'm someone who hates most farm sim-type NPCs, smth about the way they're written just rubs me wrong, but the way the NCPs in this game talk doesn't push those same buttons. I actually enjoy forwarding their storylines and feel like I'm engaging w/a person in a way I haven't rly seen from similar games. My only "critiques" (more of nitpicks really) are: 1) I wish the genetics system was more realistic, but that's bc I'm a geneticist irl (and w/all the genes + the recent update it's still great for what it is), 2) it's weird to me that the canter/gallop animations are just the same animation at different speeds instead of being distinct gaits, and 3) unless I've missed it, there's no way to save other than going to bed for the day. Game isn't prone to crashing & runs beautifully but outside factors make me afraid of mid-day crashes + if I need to leave in case of emergency, being able to save - either from menu or in bed w/out sleeping? - would help <3 Bought on the same day as Paralives and spent 5x as much of the day playing this instead, which I hope communicates a high bar of quality.
One of better horse games. Enjoyable and it's clear the developer knows how a proper horse riding and care looks like. I love how realistic it's aiming to be. I would also appreciate if the development continued as I feel right now, it's still not finished and lacking content, especially at the end game, which might feel repetitive and grindy. There are also some noticable bugs, that I encounter every time I play. Still I really like this game and recommend it for horse lovers and I hope it will get even better with future updates.
This is one of my most enjoyable games I've ever played. I love caring for the horses. It's really exciting and addicting to pair 2 horses together and see how their ponies will turn out with traits, colors and patterns. Caring for them, raising them into adults, training them and competing in competitions feels so rewarding. I also love that it isn't only about horse racing, but there are really beautiful areas to explore, foraging, gardening, crafting. There are also really fun additions like cute outfits to buy for yourself and your horses. This developer just makes games that perfectly satisfy the craving for cute, cozy games. I've played this game on and off for a couple years and just now finished the main story line and all competions, so there is definitely enough content in here to make it worth your money even at full price. You can play this game however you want, whether it's casually or competitively. I have spent many nights so hyperfixated on it so much that I was up all night training horses and trying to win that next competition. However, you can also just go at your own pace to do what you want and come back to the quests/ competitions whenever you feel like it. This and Alchemy Story are a couple of my favorite indie games, and I'm really looking forward to whatever else this developer makes in the future.
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The Ranch of Rivershine is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
No, The Ranch of Rivershine is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.
Yes, The Ranch of Rivershine received 1,465 positive votes out of a total of 1,563 achieving a rating of 8.90.
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The Ranch of Rivershine was developed and published by Cozy Bee Games.
Yes, The Ranch of Rivershine is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, The Ranch of Rivershine is not playable on MacOS.
No, The Ranch of Rivershine is not playable on Linux.
Yes, The Ranch of Rivershine is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, The Ranch of Rivershine is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, The Ranch of Rivershine does not support VR.
The Ranch of Rivershine is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for The Ranch of Rivershine. Explore additional content available for The Ranch of Rivershine on Steam.
No, The Ranch of Rivershine does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, The Ranch of Rivershine does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, The Ranch of Rivershine is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Cozy Bee Games
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Cozy Bee Games
Release
23 May 2025
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