American Cowboy is a simulation game for traveling. It recreates the environment of a cowboy's life. Your purpose is to earn revenue and climb up in the leader-board. While traveling you will have to go through many difficult situations like snow, rain, epidemics and local farmers might refuse your cattle to pass through their land with out paying ransom.

You need to pace your cows well, over speeding will quickly make them tired. Cows that lags too far behind and move out of the screen can be declared lost. A cow dies if energy falls below 20%.

You decide the speed of cow based on weather, type of terrain and temperature. Harsh weather, difficult terrains and extreme temperature can make your cows to get tired quickly. Consider rest or move your cows very slowly in snow and rain.

Your cow's energy improve gradually while they are resting. You can also go to treatment section and gain instant energy via injections. As your cows start getting tired they will start varying their speed and hence make it more difficult to keep them together.

Finally when you reach market your cows price is based on its health. Higher health will yield higher price. Health of a cow is effected by change in energy of cow. Energy changes more rapidly but overall health gain and lost is very gradual.

Your performance will be determined in many different aspects such as your revenue, number of miles traveled, miles per day , days of traveling, etc. It is going to be a lot of fun when you start playing and start competing with your friends.