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Steam announcementView the game on SifterSeptember 28, 2026

The frontier's been open three days.

Servers wiped Sep 25. Every name on the leaderboard got earned since then — which means the ground floor is still wide open. Plenty of room at the bottom.

NEW: First-Day Trail 🧭

Fresh off the train? The First-Day Trail walks you through your first four moves — spend your stat points, win a fight, crack the Frontier Calendar, say howdy in the saloon. Every step pays real gold: 2,000 Gold total plus the Greenhorn title when you finish all four. It opens on its own when you log in, or hit the 🧭 icon on the desktop.

NEW: Review Bounty 📝

A public review on our Steam page pays 10,000 Gold in-game. One bounty per drifter, verified by the Marshal's office the honest way — and yes, it pays even if you reviewed before the bounty existed. Playing through Steam: hit the 📝 Review icon on the desktop and draw your bounty.

To the six drifters who already left reviews — most of you can walk in and claim right now.

NEW: Recruit Program 👥

Every cowboy gets a personal recruit link. Anyone who makes their account through your link pays you 10,000 Gold — and hands them a 500 Gold welcome bonus for showing up. Copy your link in the 👥 Recruit window and drop it anywhere drifters gather. One account per IP stands, so no bounty-farming your own household.

Also shipped in the first stretch

  • 🏰 Allegiance — swear fealty to another player and they earn 10% of every XP point and Gold you make, minted out of thin air. You lose nothing. Chains build monarchs.
  • 🔥 Frontier Calendar — daily rewards on a repeating 7-day track; day 7 pays 1,500 Gold plus a Streak Freeze. 30-day and 100-day streaks earn titles.
  • 📜 Quests — five dailies and three weeklies, every single day.
  • 🎨 16 desktop themes — not color swaps: taskbar, window chrome, fonts, the whole 1998.
  • 🐎 Mounts level to 100 and don't die of old age anymore.
  • 🎰 Casino — poker, blackjack, Texas Hold'em, dice.
  • 🔫 World bosses, posse wars, vault raids, wanted posters, writs, coinflip duels, homesteads, prestige remorts.

What's riding in next

Steam Cloud saves, trading cards, deeper Steam integration, new enemy tiers, more world bosses and themes. The Early Access roadmap on the store page stands.

Get on the horse

Free to play, no pay-to-win — the only things for sale are cosmetics. Play in your browser at cybercowboys.io or right here on Steam. And if you're enjoying the frontier, a review pays 10,000 Gold and helps the next drifter find the place.

See you in the saloon. — The Marshal

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