Players explore a colorful alien planet full of cute slimes that can be sucked up via the Vacpack gun, and placed in an expandable ranch to maximize profits, acquire upgrades, and discover the secrets of the Far, Far Range.
Easy to Play
Great Graphics/Art
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Story & Themes
Beatrix LeBeau is rancher who moves to an alien planet called the Far, Far Range, home to a wide variety of indigenous slimes. Armed with her Vacpack, Beatrix explores the world, gathering new slimes, and resources, and uses them to build out her ranch.
Slimes can be placed in upgradable corrals. When fed the correct food, they produce plorts, gem-like items that can be sold for profit at the market. The market uses real supply and demand to determine market prices, encouraging players to diversify their slimes and plorts. By selling plorts, players can use the money to purchase upgrades for themselves and their ranch. Player upgrades include more space in their Vacpack, increased health and stamina, and a jetpack.
Players can expand the ranch into new areas, unlocking helpful biomes for more finicky slimes, like an underground cave for slimes who can't stand the light.
The game features a main story that takes Beatrix across the land, seeing all the different regions and slimes, and progressing along their upgrade path. Though the world is devoid of other people, Beatrix can complete requests from a digital terminal to receive rewards, and chat with several NPCs.
The world is quite colorful and the slimes are absolutely adorable, clearly inspired by the classic slimes of the Dragon Quest RPG series. There are elements of danger, however. Players cannot touch the surrounding ocean. And if too many slimes get together, they're likely to turn into Tarrs, scary black slimes that destroy other slimes and attack the player. Tarrs can be disabled when starting a new game.
Difficulty
Slime Rancher features two different difficulty settings. On the normal Adventure mode, players deal with Tarrs as normal, can be knocked out, and must deal with fluctuating prices at the plort market. On Casual mode, the dangerous Tarr does not exist at all, and feral slimes are less aggressive, eliminating most of the dangers players will face.
Heads Up!
Violence Certain slimes, such as Boom and Rock, can accidentally damage the player. Unless disabled, Feral slimes and Tarrs will actively hunt and attack the player by bouncing, biting, and whatever else that type of slime can do. Players can pacify feral slimes by feeding them, or launching them away with the vac-gun. Tarrs must be sprayed with water, causing them to dissolve.
Scary Imagery Slime Rancher is a very cutesy game, but Tarrs can be a bit scary for younger children. Any slime can transform into a Tarr if it eats a different slime plort while already enlarged, making them common where lots of slimes gather. They're large and black with scary faces, like a Jack 'O Lantern, and they're accompanied by a much more intense soundtrack.
Tarrs can be disabled when starting a new game.
Conversation Starters
- What are your favorite slimes?
- How are you designing your ranch, and which areas to you unlock first?
- Are you using any combined Largo slimes, and which ones?
- Which upgrades are you working toward?
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