About This Game

Turn the bottom of your screen into a small living ranch. Transparent and click-through, it stays out of the way while you work or browse. Prefer a regular window? Play it windowed or full screen with the mountain scenery and let it run.

Every horse is built from real coat colors and markings: bay, seal brown, black, gray and more, leg markings from a coronet up to full stockings, a star, stripe or bald face, tobiano and sabino patterns, and mealy or dark muzzles, plus mane, eye and hoof colors. All of it is rolled for each horse, with over 320,000 possible combinations, and horses come in two builds: the classic Stock horse and the big, sturdy Draft horse. Rarity isn't a hidden number: it shows in how a horse looks. A Common horse is plain. A Legendary one wears the rarest traits.

• Foals you raise only show their coat. Their markings and rarity are revealed when they grow up.

• The Marketplace offers four new horses every hour. They arrive fully grown, and some come with a known pedigree.

• Buyers drop by, each looking for a specific kind of horse. Show them one you raised and get an offer above the market price, or try to haggle for more.

• Breed a mare and a stallion, and each foal inherits its traits from its parents. Before you pair them, the breeding screen shows the exact odds for every trait.

• Watch for surprise traits from a grandparent or a mutation, and follow every horse's family tree back to its grandparents.

Your horses graze, move, and react in real time.

Feed them hay, apples, oats and more, keep them happy, and watch your ranch flourish.

A tidy ranch is a happy ranch. Small actions lead to steady growth.

Your horses earn coins, and happy ones earn more. Collect them, or hire someone who will.

Ranch helpers clean, groom, feed and collect coins.

Send the whole group out on a run. They drift ahead and fall back like a real pack.

Runs earn Horseshoes, which you can spend on races.

Races play out on a small track, and before you enter, a prediction screen shows whether your horse is ready. Every horse keeps its own race record, and a winning record raises its price when you sell it.

Level up and expand your ranch, give each one a unique look with decorations from the Shop, and fill the Journal with every trait you've collected.

Milestones unlock Steam achievements.

From a tiny patch of grass to a thriving ranch.

My Little Ranch lives at the bottom of your screen, or fills all of it.

A calm companion to your daily routine while you work, study or relax.

Start small.

Grow peacefully.

Build your little ranch.