$19.99Slime Rancher Ranch bouncy slimes on a faraway planet
Collect, feed and care for a colorful herd of adorable slimes, then explore the wild open world around your ranch at your own pace.
Is Slime Rancher worth it?
Slime Rancher is worth it if…
- you like cute farming games with no real pressure
- you enjoy exploring colorful worlds to find new creatures
- you like tinkering with breeding combos and ranch layouts
- you want something relaxed and funny the whole family can watch
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Wrangling slimes with a vacuum
Your main tool is the vacpack: suck up slimes, fruit, veggies, and chickadoos, then shoot them back out where you want them. You carry pink blobs home in your backpack cannon, drop them in a corral, and keep them fed so they drop plorts. Feed one slime another slime's plort and you get a largo, a bigger hybrid that eats more and poops two kinds of plort. With more than 150 possible hybrids, picking which mixes live together is half the job. And yes, selling poop for ranch upgrades is a legitimate business plan here.
Running your ranch
You inherit Hobson Twillgers' old ranch and build it back up, plot by plot. That means corrals for slimes, gardens for crops, coops for chickadoos, plus upgrades for your vacpack and new ranch expansions when money allows. Slimes get hungry, restless, and occasionally explosive, so feeding schedules and high walls matter. Daily requests from other ranchers pay bonuses if you deliver the right plorts. Get the routine humming and the ranch practically runs itself, apart from the slimes staging their little jailbreaks.
Exploring the Far, Far Range
Beyond the fence sits a sprawling, colorful world of meadows, caves, deserts, and odd ruins, full of wild slimes, food, and hidden treasures. You push further out to find new slime types, new diets, and new plorts worth more on the Plort Market, where prices shift and reward variety. Keys from well-fed slimes open new areas, so exploring feeds straight back into ranching. Watch out for too many hybrids in one place: overfed largos turn into hungry Tarr, and only quick thinking and water keeps them from eating the neighborhood.
Slime Science and tinkering
Once the basics click, Slime Science opens up crafting. You gather rare resources out in the wilds, refine plorts and materials in the lab, then build gadgets, decorations, teleports, and helpers like drones to feed slimes and collect plorts for you. It is the late-game toy box for players who like automating chores and dressing up the ranch. Three modes set the pressure: Adventure for the full story and progression, Casual for a gentler pace, and Rush for a timed sprint. The soundtrack stays light and bouncy throughout.
What else should you know?
What do you actually do all day?
Explore with your vacpack, vacuum up slimes and food, bring them home, feed slimes their favorite diets, collect plorts, and sell them on the Plort Market. Spend the profits on corrals, gardens, coops, vacpack upgrades, and ranch expansions, then head out further for rarer slimes. Daily requests add short goals on top.
How do hybrid slimes work?
Feed a regular slime a plort from a different type and it becomes a largo: larger, hungrier, and producing two kinds of plorts. Mixing types is how you reach the 150-plus combinations, but it needs care. A largo that eats a third kind of plort turns into Tarr, which spreads fast unless you spray it with water or remove it.
Is there a story or just ranch chores?
There is a light story around Beatrix taking over Hobson's ranch, with notes and secrets scattered across the Far, Far Range that explain the planet and its former rancher. It stays in the background while ranching and exploring lead. Adventure mode follows it through, while Casual and Rush focus more on building and speed.
Does the game stay relaxing late in the game?
Mostly, yes. The loop stays low-pressure: feed slimes, collect, sell, expand, explore. Slime Science and drones can automate feeding and collecting, which cuts down on back-and-forth once your ranch gets big. Prices on the Plort Market move around, so rotating what you sell keeps income steady without much stress.
