Games Like Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Co-op 15.5%, Open World 14.3%, Sandbox 13%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Multiplayer 12%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same satisfying build-from-nothing progression through open-world building, hunting, crafting, farming, and co-op settlement growth.

Farming Simulator 25 invites you to join the rewarding farm life, single-handedly or cooperatively in multiplayer. This Farm is Your Farm!

Why similar: Farming Sim 22.4%, Farming 18.7% ★, Economy 9.6%, Realistic 7.8%, Simulation 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: If the realistic ranch work and co-op property management were your favorite parts, this is one of the best pure farming alternatives on Steam.

Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.

Why similar: Horses 18.1% ★, Farming Sim 18.1%, Co-op 8.6%, Economy 7.8%, Online Co-Op 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It nails the realistic equipment, livestock, and multiplayer farm progression side of Ranch Simulator better than almost anything else.

🌾Unleash the Farmer within. 🚜 Dive into the rustic charm of rural living in "Farmer's Life," where you'll experience the joy and challenges of life on a vibrant farmstead. Plant, grow, and embrace a country living in a vast open world. You choose from diverse mechanics and endless possibilities.

Why similar: Farming 33.1% ★, Farming Sim 19.5%, Sandbox 9%, Immersive Sim 8.2%, Open World 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its rougher first-person farm sandbox captures the same hands-on, work-the-land feel with animals, chores, and property improvement.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Farming 32.7% ★, Farming Sim 20.8%, Co-op 10.1%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Like Ranch Simulator, it mixes wilderness living with hunting, farming, crafting, building, and multiplayer homestead growth.

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Farming Sim 27.3%, Online Co-Op 15.5%, Co-op 11%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a more relaxed open-world co-op mix of farming, base-building, and frontier expansion on a run-down piece of land.

Escape the stress of the big city and enjoy the country life. Take care of your farm, explore the open game world and create your farming paradise. Take care of your animals, cultivate the fields, produce useful and decorative items and build your dream ranch.

Why similar: Horses 34.4% ★, Farming Sim 23.3%, Trading 20%, Open World 9%, Relaxing 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the country-life sandbox appeal through farming, animal care, exploration, vehicles, and slowly upgrading your homestead.

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: Open World 21.7%, Online Co-Op 20.2%, Co-op 17.9%, Management 15.2%, Multiplayer 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong fit if you want open-world co-op building, farming, hunting, and turning an undeveloped area into a thriving settlement.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

Why similar: Open World 29.1%, Online Co-Op 21%, Multiplayer 19.2%, Co-op 16.5%, Sandbox 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Though more fantastical, its co-op open world of gathering, hunting, farming, breeding, and base-building scratches a very similar sandbox progression itch.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 23.7%, Open World 17.4%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Co-op 15.7%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival structure overlaps well with Ranch Simulator's resource gathering, hunting, crafting, and building-up-a-base appeal.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 29%, Open World 22.6%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Co-op 16.3%, Sandbox 13%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more survival than simulation, but the co-op loop of building, hunting, farming, and living off your land is a great match.

Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!

Why similar: Farming Sim 23%, Horses 18.4% ★, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Co-op 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is less realistic, but its easygoing multiplayer crop-and-animal progression is a great fit if you mainly liked the co-op farm routine.

Take on the role of a modern farmer in Farming Simulator 17! Explore farming possibilities in a new North American environment. Drive over 250 farming vehicles and equipment from over 75 manufacturers, including new brands such as Challenger, Fendt, Valtra or Massey Ferguson.

Why similar: Farming Sim 36.4%, Economy 9.8%, Simulation 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Open World 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is still a solid option if you want more co-op agricultural work, animal management, and property expansion with less emphasis on survival.

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Sandbox 22.8%, Open World 21.5%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Co-op 14.3%, Online Co-Op 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Survival mode combines base-building, farming, vehicle use, and open-ended co-op sandbox play in a way Ranch Simulator fans often enjoy.

Discover an atmospheric hunting game like no other in this realistic, stunning open world – regularly updated in collaboration with the community. Immerse yourself in the single player campaign, or share the ultimate hunting experience with friends.

Why similar: Hunting 35.6% ★, Open World 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.2%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Sandbox 7%

Why You'll Like It: If the hunting and open-world roaming parts of Ranch Simulator stood out most, this is the strongest dedicated version of that experience.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Open World 41.9%, Multiplayer 28.7%, Sandbox 26.3%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: The open-world mix of building, breeding, farming, hunting, and multiplayer progression fits players who want a bigger, wilder sandbox.

A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.

Why similar: Simulation 49.7%, Open World 23%, Realistic 10.9%, First-Person 7.2%, Relaxing 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Another rural first-person work sim, it focuses on rebuilding family property, using equipment, and making a living from the land.

An open-world survival crafting game for 1–8 players, blending intense dungeon crawling and ARPG combat with peaceful farming and creative building. Take on quests and explore a vast, procedurally-generated world full of danger and discovery.

Why similar: Farming 65.8% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Open World 16%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends co-op homestead building, farming, exploration, and action into another strong 'build a life from scratch' sandbox.

The best-selling franchise takes a giant leap forward with a complete overhaul of the graphics engine, offering the most striking and immersive visuals and effects, along with the deepest and most complete farming experience ever.

Why similar: Farming Sim 33.8%, Simulation 10%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Open World 8.7%, Realistic 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Even as an older entry, it remains a very strong match for the realistic machinery, livestock, and multiplayer farm-economy side.

Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.

Why similar: Hunting 46.5% ★, Open World 17.7%, Sandbox 16.9%, Co-op 16.5%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is more survival-focused, but the base-building, taming, farming, and co-op wilderness living make it a good sandbox adjacent pick.

This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.

Why similar: Open World 29.1%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Co-op 16.5%, Online Co-Op 16%, Sandbox 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world crafting and survival loop also includes hunting, farming, and home-building for players who liked Ranch Simulator's self-sufficient lifestyle.

Become the new owner of a hunting lodge nestled among gorgeous habitats and rich animal populations. Explore vast open world environments and hunt with a premium selection of firearms. Enjoy the perfect hunt on your own or with friends in co-op.

Why similar: Hunting 45.8% ★, Realistic 11.8%, Open World 10.1%, Multiplayer 8%, Co-op 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It matches the slower, more grounded wilderness hunting side of Ranch Simulator with large maps and realistic tracking.

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!

Why similar: Horses 49.8% ★, Farming Sim 27.3%, Simulation 9.7%, Management 6.2%, Job Simulator 6.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the survival edge, but its ranch-management, animal care, upgrades, and open-area exploration fit the ranch fantasy well.

A beautiful Life Sim Sandbox RPG with Cross-Platform Online COOP set on a tropical Archipelago. Build your farm, grow crops and animals, craft various items, cook dishes, gather resources, build shops and museum to attract visitors, and turn a desolate Island into a prosperous tourist destination!

Why similar: Animals 27.9% ★, Farming Sim 21.1%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Open World 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a lighter co-op mix of farming, animals, crafting, and improving a home base that should appeal to the chill side of Ranch Simulator.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World 28.4%, Multiplayer 24.7%, Sandbox 16.1%, Co-op 14.2%, Online Co-Op 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more survival-heavy take on the same core pleasures of hunting, farming, building, and carving out a self-sufficient property.

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Economy 17.8%, Trading 17.2%, Management 15.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.9%

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Farming Sim 42.8%, Sandbox 18.6%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 15.2%, Simulation 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a broader crafting life sim, but rebuilding a frontier property and town through gathering, farming, and production hits some of the same notes.

The Infected is a sandbox, first-person, open-world survival game. Build bases, craft, farm, hunt, and survive changing seasons. Choose whether to face the hybrid “Vambies” or turn them off for a pure survival experience.

Why similar: Open World 27.1%, Sandbox 24%, Realistic 21.5%, Simulation 13%, First-Person 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This pairs wilderness base-building with hunting and crop growing, giving you another gradual homestead-improvement sandbox.

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Sandbox 23.1%, Co-op 22.9%, Open World 20.6%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its sandbox loop of starting small, building infrastructure, and turning a rough plot into a profitable operation parallels the seed game's business-growth appeal.

Old Market Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you manage your market by ordering goods, growing produce, raising animals, fishing, and crafting items in your workshop, while hiring employees and expanding your business.

Why similar: Farming 20.1% ★, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Trading 12.5%, Management 11%, Immersive Sim 9.3%

The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.4%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Economy 12.9%, Trading 12.6%, Management 11.5%

Welcome to Wrap House Simulator! Run your own wrap shop, chop, grill, and serve in this cooking adventure. Customize your shop, master the grill, and survive the rush solo or co-op with up to 6 players. Keep up with orders, satisfy customers, and build your dream restaurant!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.3%, Co-op 13.5%, Economy 11.7%, Immersive Sim 10%, Sandbox 9.8%

“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!

Why similar: Farming Sim 36.5%, Sandbox 17.3%, Open World 16.7%, Relaxing 10.1%, Simulation 9.4%

Construction Simulator has returned – larger and more impressive than ever! Fulfil your ambition to become a successful construction entrepreneur by establishing your business from scratch, assisted by your mentor Hape.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20%, Open World 15.4%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Realistic 12.3%, Simulation 12.3%

Car For Sale Simulator 2023 - Developed for car enthusiasts, grow your own car sales business by buying and selling different car models. Drive the purchased cars as you wish, repair them, modify them, and sell them to customers at affordable prices.

Why similar: Trading 33.1%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Open World 11.8%, Simulation 8.6%

Enjoy the experience of running your own ranch and store from the ground up. Grow crops, raise livestock, and keep your customers stocked with fresh products. Defend your farm from wild animal attacks. Hire employees and grow from a humble beginning into a thriving business.

Why similar: Farming Sim 27.7%, Sandbox 12.7%, Economy 12.6%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Realistic 9%

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Economy 22.3%, Management 16.8%, Simulation 16.1%, Open World 14.3%, Realistic 12.5%

Plan, design, build, and decorate your dream house in an open-world. Smash walls, sketch your layout, then build and decorate every inch—inside and garden. In an open world, tackle each renovation solo or with up to 4 friends. Pick up that hammer and start creating - Your dream house is waiting!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 16.5%, Economy 15.3%, Open World 13%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Management 11.4%

Welcome to the new generation of Farming Simulator!With a brand new graphics and physics engine, Farming Simulator 15 offers an immense open world, filled with details and visual effects transporting the Farming Simulator franchise to a new era.

Why similar: Farming Sim 43.1%, Simulation 11%, Multiplayer 8%, Open World 7.8%, Co-op 5.7%

Grocery Store Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you build and manage your own supermarket by stocking shelves, setting prices, hiring staff, and customizing your store, all while expanding your business and keeping customers happy.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 14.9%, Economy 13.6%, Co-op 11.9%, Management 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%

The Ranchers is an open world country-life sim for 1-4 players. Raise animals, grow tasty crops, craft helpful tools and build your dream house. Explore the open world and earn the villagers' respect and esteem.

Why similar: Animals 31.7% ★, Farming Sim 26.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Embark on a relaxing yet challenging journey to manage your own supermarket. Grow organic crops, care for your animals, and sell products to your customers. Build and expand your shelves. Can you transform your supermarket into an empire?

Why similar: Farming 31.4% ★, Farming Sim 18.8%, Economy 11%, Immersive Sim 8.6%, Management 7.9%

Create your own farm. Harvest crops, take care of animals, sell goods, set prices at your discretion, hire staff, expand, design, and build your dream farm.

Why similar: Farming 27.3% ★, Job Simulator 18.5% ★, Farming Sim 11.5%, Trading 11.3%, Immersive Sim 7%

Live – Build – Farm: Enjoy a unique mix of farming, constructing and life simulation that takes you to the countryside and holds plenty of challenging gameplay in stock!

Why similar: Farming Sim 46.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Open World 10.9%, Management 9.6%, Realistic 8.7%

Trade horses, formulate feed, and breed generations of elite stallions, racehorses, draft mounts, war horses, and more. Train, auction, mine, forge, farm, run caravans, build a mercenary force, and deal with powerful lords. Dominate the medieval horse trade.

Why similar: Horses 25.1% ★, Farming 23.5% ★, Farming Sim 13.9%, Economy 9.2%, Immersive Sim 7.2%

Camping Simulator lets you experience what camp means by preparing your backpack wisely for challenging conditions of nature. You can play all the experiences with up to 8 friends in multiplayer mode or single player mode.

Why similar: Co-op 21.8%, Sandbox 20.8%, Management 13.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Relaxing 9.1%

Start a new life as a Rancher. Travel the forest paths by quad bike, raise cattle, build, repair, and improve your farm. Take care of animals, go fishing, cook, grow vegetables, practice your accuracy on shooting range, take photos, and much more. Relax away from the hustle and bustle of the city!

Why similar: Farming Sim 40%, Immersive Sim 18%, Realistic 15.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Relaxing 10.1%

Welcome to Feign, an intriguing role-based game that blends mystery, strategy, and deception. Step into a quirky, small town where Innocents, Impostors, and Neutrals navigate suspenseful gameplay. Your mission unfolds under the cover of night - then it's up to the village by day to vote someone out!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 45.2%, Multiplayer 30.1%, Co-op 24.7%

Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING! Play with friends, feed and quench the thirst of the entire world!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.3%, Economy 15.6%, Management 14.9%, Co-op 13.5%, Sandbox 12.1%

Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses. Manage a living world shaped by dynamic economy and random events. Upgrade your facilities, satisfy your customers, and play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 15.9%, Economy 15.2%, Co-op 13.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Management 12.1%

Animal husbandry, crops, sales… It's up to you to manage and grow your own farm in a huge, totally new world!

Why similar: Farming Sim 42.5%, Farming 21.3% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Open World 5.4%, Multiplayer 5.2%

This is a simulator of life in the Russian countryside, where the player will be engaged in the garden, picking mushrooms and berries, collect firewood, hunting and fishing, brew moonshine and much, much more.

Why similar: Farming 24.5% ★, Hunting 18.4% ★, Farming Sim 16.6%, Trading 12.6%, Economy 6.2%

House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!

Why similar: Sandbox 16.1%, Immersive Sim 13.8%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Simulation 11.8%, Economy 11.6%

Manage your own park facility in a huge open world in Park Ranger Simulator. Take on all the tasks that need to be completed as a park ranger - alone or together in cross-platform multiplayer! You have a variety of vehicles and equipment at your disposal to complete the challenges ahead!

Why similar: Hunting 23.4% ★, Online Co-Op 16.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Simulation 9.1%

You’ve got land, time, and a whole lot to figure out. Start small, work hard, earn what you need, and build the kind of farm you’d never want to leave.

Why similar: Farming 26.1% ★, Farming Sim 24.2%, Economy 11.5%, Open World 10.3%, Immersive Sim 7.9%

Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in the long awaited sequel to the cozy, relaxing farming experience!

Why similar: Farming Sim 33.5%, Economy 15.5%, Sandbox 15.4%, Co-op 12.9%, Management 9.6%

Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.

Why similar: Simulation 21.7%, Open World 18.5%, Realistic 17.5%, Economy 11.9%, Sandbox 10.1%