Questions, answered

A first-person off-grid homestead game. You start on April 1st with fifty wooded acres in northeastern Pennsylvania, a tent and your savings, and you have until winter to clear land, cut firewood, build shelter, grow and raise food, and set up power and water. It runs on real 2025–26 prices, real climate normals and real kilowatt-hours, and it's a lot sillier than that sounds.

Yes. Fifty Acres is free to play in your browser, with nothing to download or install.

You sign in with your email. The game sends you a one-time link (no password to remember), and your homesteads save to your account, so they follow you to any device.

A modern browser with WebGL (current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari) on a desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. Settings → Graphics quality has Auto, Low, Med and High. Low is kindest to older phones.

Yes. Left thumb moves, right thumb looks, and a big orange Act button does the work. Use Add to Home Screen and it installs like an app, with an optional notification when something on your homestead is ready.

Your homestead saves every morning in the game, every couple of minutes while you play, and when you close the tab. You can keep up to 10 homesteads and switch between them on the title screen; starting a new one never replaces the others.

Not at all. The last setup step offers Walt's training ground: 13 hands-on lessons covering firewood, building, the greenhouse, chickens, fishing, hunting and keeping meat. A glowing marker shows where to go, and the button you need lights up. Nothing is locked; you can skip any step or have Walt do it for you. After you graduate, Walt can keep guiding you on your own land.

Your pick. Cozy is for learning the systems: frozen pipes and dead batteries cost comfort and warnings, never lasting harm. Homesteader means winter is real: pipes split, the ER sends a bill, hens die without water, and chimney fires happen.

Separately, Settings → Chores sets how hands-on it is: Hands-on (you carry every bag and feed the stove), Assisted, or Easy, with per-chore overrides.

Only good things. Your homestead keeps going for up to one game day while you're away: eggs get laid, crops grow, sap runs, wood dries, crews keep building and deliveries arrive. Walt covers the chores, so nothing dies, rots, freezes or gets fined. A "While you were away" card sums it up when you're back.

Yes. Enter a name on the title screen, then start your own valley or join someone else's from the list of who's online. You can visit a neighbor's homestead, trade on the Hollow Market, send gifts and pranks, chip into the weekly valley project, and let a friend mind your place while you're gone.

You can also work on a friend's homestead live with them: tap Join on their row and they tap Let them in. What you fell, build, plant or haul lands in their save, and your own money, pack, guns and licences stay yours.

There's a full hunting system (a living deer herd, seasons, licences, a game warden, 13 weapons, field dressing and butchering), and fishing with ten Pennsylvania species. Both are entirely up to you; plenty of homesteads run on eggs, gardens and maple syrup.

After your first winter, each valley gets its own set of oddities, secrets, festivals and silly recipes, seeded from the valley itself, so no two valleys are the same. Bigfoot, a wandering garden gnome, a hen-borrowing UFO, Uncle Dale's Mystery Mixers and more. Phone → Almanac keeps track.

Your neighbor down the road. Retired after thirty-one years on the power lines, owner of Bo (half beagle, half couch), and the source of most of your advice and all of your bad jokes. He texts.