I'll keep it short: It's Harvest Moon only better in every aspect I can think of. I was hesitant to spend €14 for just a Harvest Moon clone but the amount of content and love in this game is easily worth the money.
Seeing as there is no review on GOG and it's new here, I felt the urge to give a short review. The game is as cute as it looks. You run around, everything wobbles and makes cute noises and it's fun. Initially. Because after about 5 hours you have seen and done everything there is to do. I bought it for a reduced price (I think) on Steam where it has been for a while but I still felt like this was an Early Access game I should have passed. It wasn an impulse buy because of the overall great look and idea. If you are one of those people that like to micromanage and optimize things (I know I do), you're also wrong. While the game is called "Slime Rancher" and it's exactly what you do, there's no real depth whatsoever to the whole "ranching" part. There is a market where you sell slime poop for money (which is awesome) and it has dynamic prices but after an hour or two I had like 2 different pens with a bunch of high-value slimes and that's all I needed. There's quite a bit of different food, and the slimes all have food preferences. In the end it never seems to matter. I read the Slimepedia (ingame) to see what food to food what slime but it just doesn't really matter, unless you feed the wrong food to cause problems so you can choose 1-2 food items to farm and you're set on that part. So, the Slime Ranching doesn't require variety, and neither does the food farming. This is my main gripe besides the lack of content, because at least the core component of a ranching game should have some depth to cause that urge to improve things. In the end, I had fun for 5 hours but I regretted the purchase. I've rechecked if some big things got added since I last played and there is none. If you really enjoy the graphics and are okay with very little content and have the money lying around - go buy. For everyone else unfortunately I'd recommend watching some YouTube videos to enjoy the overall cuteness instead and a pass on buying the game.
