Slime Rancher

adorable slimes i want tabby slimes now

A cute and funny game with a great relaxing atmosphere. It’s a bit slow to make progress at times, as everything seems to be slightly too small but other than that, it’s really enjoyable to play. Very colourful with simple gameplay and a cute and charming cast of slimes. The story and music are a bit lacking, but once you get into it, there’s plenty of depth and different things for you to do. More could have been done with the other gameplay modes, but Rush Mode offers a slightly different kind of challenge which is good for replayability.

Not worth writing an in-depth review so here's a summary: POSITIVES: - Good learning curve. - Decent graphics for this price. - Cutesy art style that doesn't go overboard. NEGATIVES: - Difficulty... there isn't any to speak of. You're never in any danger of dying unless you're clumsy enough to fall into the sea and even then there's hardly any penalty for it. In terms of the actual farming/ranching it's more of a grind than anything even remotely challenging. - Traversing the open world is very frustrating, it feels like it's made up of multiple linear levels stitched together. You have the means to traverse the map like you would in most open world games but you will usually be met with an invisible wall forcing you to take pre-determined paths instead. It's very easy to get lost in as you have nothing to help you find your way around apart from an extremely vague map. - Resource gathering very tedious, the game encourages you to travel far for better resources but when you get there your inventory will most likely be full already as you can only carry 4 items at once. - It features many interesting mechanics but none of them seem to really serve a purpose. It has a day/night cycle and you can sleep to skip the night time but there's absolutely no reason to do this as you'll never become exhausted. It also has a market system but given the size of your inventory and the lack of any practical way to store items there's really no raeson not to sell what you have immediately. Honestly though, the biggest deal breaker for me had I known about it would be the fact that the Steam version received free exclusive DLC despite costing less than the GOG version, so technically the GOG version is incomplete. The GOG version also doesn't come with a demo despite the fact that the Steam version does. If there's one thing I can't stand it's when developers show platform bias.

It's a cutie game, actually pretty funny

i enjoy this game. the slimes are really cute and render well on my atari 2600