Slime Rancher
Slime Rancher is a charming, first-person, sandbox experience. Play as Beatrix LeBeau: a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the 'Far, Far Range.' Each day…
Slime Rancher is an adventure developed by Monomi Park, released 1 August 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac. It currently starts at $4.99 at Humble Store. The main story takes about 18.5 hrs to finish.
What Slime Rancher is
Slime Rancher is an adventure game developed by Monomi Park and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 57 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Slime Rancher holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 254 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 18.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 29 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $4.99, that works out to about $0.27 per hour of the main story, or $0.17 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.2GHz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM and 512MB VRAM. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.99 at Humble Store, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Slime Rancher launched on 1 August 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Sonic Mania. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Sonic Mania.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Slime Rancher yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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