Slime Rancher

Play it, good gameplay and a lot of slimes.

This game is a lot of fun. It manages to strike a perfect balance between farming / management simulator and adventurous exploration game as you go and explore the Range to find new slimes and new resources to upgrade your ranch. I play it with my 5 year old daughter and she is in love with all of the cute slimes and their behaviors. If you like Harvest Moon or Rune Factory then I would absolutely recommend this.

The game plays as good as it looks. Didn't experience any technical issues. Beautiful design which works well in the game itself. It's been hard for me to spend lots of time on games recently, so more casual stuff is better. There's some optimization and depth, but mostly it's just a pleasure to play. You can pick this up and play it later without too much difficulty. The story was also unexpectedly impactful and well written despite being simple. Finally, this is a great game for if you're about to get a family pet, in terms of teaching kids about responsibility for management - source the food, clean the poop, don't let the pets eat each other.

Not too long, but has lots of stuff you can do in it. It's fun to explore and find hidden stuff, and to upgrade your vacpack and ranch.

I bought this game for my 8yo daughter and it's perfect for her. Great alternative for Minecraft, that seems to a bit to much complicated and intimidating, There is simple economy, simple crafting system and farm management. Exploration is great - it's calm, you decide where you go, what you do and which slimes you collect and mix. There are few areas more and less dangerous to explore, but you can't die here - you just "pass out" and wake up on your ranch, with empty invertory (which is only four slots, so no tragedy here). When you just think you've seen it all, you will find an area more interesting than whole the rest of this game, including other dimension (which is not even close to hell in Minecraft ;) I absolutely recommend it to parents that seek an exploration game with no violence, no horror elements, and the most dangerous creatures there, are the hungry slimes or "Tarr" - creature that is a mix of too many slimes, that is aggressive to other slimes, but it can be dealt with by shooting with water or just throwing to the sea :)