Build it yourself
Placing a building pays a down payment. Then the materials have to reach the site, and you can haul them there yourself.
The game
Your tractor. Your town. Your story.
Acre by Acre is a world builder where your tractor is your character. Grow crops, raise livestock, run businesses and found a town, alone or with friends, in a world that keeps working while you’re away.
- 2islands, one hand-painted world
- 62kinds of building to place
- 17professions to learn
- 11crops, counting grapes
- 48real minutes in a game day
- 32farmers at once on the official server
Farm life
Plant in season. Harvest on time.
Run a small, standard or large arable farm, or tend a vineyard. Pick a crop, wait for its months to come round, then watch the field grow for six months, from seedlings to a full head.
You have two months to bring the harvest in before it spoils. Fertiliser doubles the yield, and a large farm brings in up to 3,000 at a time.
- Wheat
- Corn
- Barley
- Oats
- Alfalfa
- Hops
- Potatoes
- Sugar beets
- Tea leaves
- Coffee beans
- Grapes
Ranch life
Cattle, chickens and a full hay barn.
A ranch raises cattle and chickens and gathers eggs and fertiliser every month, paid from its owner’s funds. Feed it hay and its output doubles.
Cure alfalfa into hay at the Hay Barn, and send livestock to the Butcher for beef, leather and poultry.
- Cattle
- Chickens
- Eggs
- Hay
- Beef
- Leather
- Poultry
City life
Found a town and fill its blocks.
Plant a Town Center to found a town: 24 building blocks around a civic square. Set its trade tax anywhere from 0 to 8 percent, and give a month’s notice before you raise it. Members’ workshops run 1.4 times faster inside the town.
Buy, rent and sell property, follow the Town News board for listings and sales, and fill export orders at the Export/Import Office, where new money comes into the world.
- Town Center
- Houses to mansions
- Taverns and cafés
- Shops
- Warehouses
- Trade tax 0–8%
Coast life
Sand under the tyres.
A band of palms runs along the green island’s coast, with wide beaches facing the channel. Tractors wade through the shallows at half speed. Watch your air in deep water.
Fit a Pontoon Kit and open water becomes a road.
- Palm coast
- Beaches
- Pontoon Kit
- The channel
Desert life
Across the channel, the desert island.
The eastern island is all sand, scrub and rock: mesas and buttes, saguaros, Joshua trees, agaves and tumbleweed.
It is also the only place in the world where you can mine rare earth.
- Mesas and buttes
- Cacti and succulents
- Rare earth mines
Industry
From a stack of logs to a fleet of trucks
Sixty-two kinds of building link into supply chains. Haul raw goods to the mill, the smelter or the factory, deliver between your own businesses with trucks you built, and sell the finished goods abroad.
- Logging SiteLogs
- SawmillTimber
- Iron MineIron
- SteelworksSteel
- Vehicle FactoryTrucks and tractors
- Export/Import OfficeNew money
Roads and deliveries
Grade your own roads and lay fences with the right equipment. Trucks you build carry goods between your businesses.
Sheckles and denari
A hundred denari to the sheckle. New money only enters the world through export orders, so every coin has a story.
Professions
Learn a trade. Build what it unlocks.
Seventeen professions are taught at the School, the Trades School and the University. In multiplayer each farmer holds two at a time; anyone may own any building, but only a trained hand can place it and run it.
School
- Settlement AdministrationTown Center, School, Trades School, Export/Import Office
- Public Services and HousingHouse, Large House, Mansion, Pharmacy
- Utilities and FacilitiesResource Depot, Cold Storage, Shipping Depot
- Storage and CommerceSmall, Regular and Large Warehouse
- Dairy and Beverage ProductionBrewery, Winery, Café
- Retail and HospitalityGeneral Store, Tavern, Fuel Station
Trades School
- Forestry and Construction TradesLogging Site, Lumberyard, Sawmill, Stonemasons, Rubber Plantation
- Mining and EarthworksQuarry, Limestone Mine, Clay Pit, Iron Mine
- Crop FarmingArable Farms, Vineyard, Grain Silo
- Animal HusbandryRanch, Hay Barn, Butcher
- Food ProcessingMill, Bakery, Restaurant
- Basic Industrial OperationsSmelter, Equipment Barn, Builders’ Yard, Concrete Factory, Workshop
University
- Energy and Petroleum EngineeringOil Rig, Oil Refinery, Chemical Factory
- Advanced Mining and MetallurgyCoal Mine, Rare Earth Mine, Steelworks, Forge
- Chemical and Electronic EngineeringBattery Factory, Electronics Factory, Tyre Factory
- Vehicle ManufacturingVehicle Factory, Parts Factory, Manufactory, Engine Factory
- Advanced Technical OperationsUniversity, Advanced Machine Shop, Aircraft Factory
Look after yourself
Fuel, food, drink and a roof.
Keep an eye on your dials. A full tank crosses the map about twice; meals and drinks keep you going; and a farmer sleeping under their own roof eats from the larder and heals twice as fast.
Fuel
Burns by the mile. Run dry and you crawl along at half speed until you find a can.
Food and drink
Tavern drinks restore more and give a five-minute boost to speed and carrying.
Shelter
Log out under a roof and your needs drain slowly. Out in the open, you won’t last long.
Real stakes
A farmer who dies loses their money, goods and professions, and their property goes back on the market.
Days, seasons and weather
A world on its own clock.
A game day lasts 48 real minutes and a month lasts a real day, so a whole year passes in twelve. Every world shares the same calendar.
- Street lamps come on at half past six, and tractor headlights at dusk.
- Weather arrives in fronts: clear, overcast, light rain and heavy rain with thunder and lightning.
- Each crop has its planting months. Miss them and you wait for next year.
- Your businesses keep working while you’re away, within their funds, supplies and storage.
At the tavern
Four arcade games
Every Tavern has an arcade. It’s just for fun: the games pay out no cash or items.
- Lantern PairsA memory game with lantern cards.
- Harvest HavocFive frantic minutes of bullet-heaven action, with the Harvest King to beat.
- Last CastFishing, with a catch book of six species.
- Lantern SolitairePatience, by lamplight.
Multiplayer
Play together, or on your own.
The official server
Open around the clock, with room for 32 farmers. It comes first in every list and is verified, so nobody can pretend to be it. It opens as a beta, and the world resets for launch.
See it livePlayer-hosted servers
Host a game and it can list itself in the server list, no approval needed. Players connect straight to the host, so forward UDP port 7000 on your router.
How to hostSingle player
Your own private world with its own save. Learn every profession at your own pace; your needs pause while you’re logged out.
Get the gameControls
Keyboard, controller or Steam Deck.
Every action can be rebound in Settings, and sprint and gathering can be set to hold or toggle. Button prompts match Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo pads.
| Drive | WASD |
|---|---|
| Look around | Hold right mouse button |
| Zoom | Mouse wheel |
| Sprint | Shift |
| Interact | X |
| Gather | F |
| Build menu | B |
| Place | Left click |
| Rotate | R |
| Inventory | I |
| Map | M |
| Recenter camera | C |
| Bend a road | [and] |
| Chat | Enter |
| Pause | Esc |
| Back | Esc |
| Drive | Left stick or D-pad |
|---|---|
| Look around | Right stick |
| Zoom | RT / LT |
| Sprint | A |
| Interact | X |
| Gather | RB |
| Build menu | Y |
| Place | Left stick click |
| Rotate | RB |
| Inventory | View |
| Map | LB |
| Recenter camera | Left stick click |
| Bend a road | D-pad left / right |
| Pause | Start |
| Back | B |
With a controller, names and chat use the on-screen keyboard: move with the D-pad, A to type, X to delete, Y for a space, Start when you’re done.
- Made with the Deck in mind. On first launch the game spots a Steam Deck and starts fullscreen on the Handheld graphics preset.
- Readable at 1280×800. The interface scales up to 1.5× on the Deck’s screen.
- No keyboard needed. Name your farmer and your world with the controller keyboard, or roll the dice for a name.
- Controller layout as on the Controller tab, with Deck button prompts.
Ready to break ground?
The official world opens as a beta first. See who’s online, or find out when the download arrives.