Slime Rancher
First-person ranching sandbox about collecting, feeding, and combining colorful slimes
Monomi Park · Released Aug 1, 2017
ActionAdventureIndieSimulation
- Reviews
- Overwhelmingly Positive
- 98% of 157K
- Recent reviews
- Overwhelmingly Positive
- 98% of 1,085 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 607
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 4 years ago
- Dec 10, 2021
Free demo available, 11 playing it now: get the demo.
Metacritic: 81/100 (critic reviews)
What is Slime Rancher?
A single-player, first-person ranching sandbox set on the distant Far, Far Range, where Beatrix LeBeau takes over an inherited ranch. You use a vacpack to collect slimes and resources, grow food, sell plorts, upgrade the ranch, and explore an open world for secrets.
For you if...
- +you like casual farming, creature collecting, and exploration
- +you enjoy feeding and combining creatures into hybrids
- +you prefer cute, colorful games with low-stakes management
Not for you if...
- −you expect multiplayer or cooperative ranching
- −you prefer directed levels over open-ended exploration
- −you want ranch work to run itself
What players say
98% of 157,497 reviews are positive · 98% of 1,085 in the last 30 days
Players praise the cute art and distinct slime designs, along with the interactions involved in feeding and crossbreeding them. The most common complaint is that the mid- and late-game become repetitive, with frequent backtracking and ranch chores that limited automation does not remove.
Screenshots and trailer
Slime Rancher system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7+
- Processor
- 2.2GHz Dual Core
- Graphics
- 512MB VRAM
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 1 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 57
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, French, German, Russian, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Spanish - Latin America.
Tags
- Cute
- Exploration
- Adventure
- Singleplayer
- Open World
- First-Person
- Colorful
- Funny
- Sandbox
- Simulation
- Casual
- Management
- Fantasy
- Family Friendly
- Indie
- Great Soundtrack
Recent updates
- Dec 10, 2021 · Patch Notes for Slime Rancher version 1.4.4
- Dec 8, 2020 · Wiggly Wonderland 2020 Coming! (Version 1.4.3 is live!)
- May 26, 2020 · Pool Party Update
- Mar 31, 2020 · Community & Dev Update
- Dec 3, 2019 · Wiggly Wonderland 2019 - Coming Soon!
5 DLC available.
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