Rancher Studio

Local Hub: Manchester Metropolitan University

Chess Rancher

Chess Rancher is a farming dungeon crawler mashed with strategic chess battles, all wrapped up in a low-poly style. Jump into a lively farm where you guide your animals to fish, mine, and harvest crops. Then battle through high-steak battles where losing your chess piece means saying goodbye to your animal!

Team Bio

We’re a small but diverse indie studio based in Manchester, with a vision to mash evergreen gameplay like chess with unique modern genres. Our team has already proved strong and passionate while collaborating on projects during university and are creating content-rich, replayable titles built off a community of players. With our current project Chess Rancher already winning Game Republic’s 2025 Best Game Design, we are excited to release our next product for you!

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