Even collecting plorts can be a challenge if the slimes in the vicinity have the ability to damage you. Outside of the ranch you will be forced to move nimbly. You will be running around a lot of the time at a frantic pace trying to get everything done, but despite that I never felt pressured or rushed the best times I had with the game were when I was casually playing and taking my time, and I could see myself going back to my humble ranch indefinitely over a long period of short-burst game time. Slime Rancher sometimes lacks the more relaxed tone of other sims, while maintaining an element of overwhelming responsibility you will never have enough time do everything, so you’ll need to sit down and focus on a few specific goals at a time, whether that be providing for your slimes, performing market trades, focusing on farm expansion, or trying to further explore the environment around you to find blueprints for new gadgets. Plots can be upgraded for better security, but inevitably you will have an escapee or two and have to deal with a scourge of Tarr ruining your farm. What makes Slime Rancher more engaging than other farm sims is how active you will constantly need to be. This will result in a transformation into the jack-o’-lantern looking Tarr, a slime that can assimilate other slimes in the environment into Tarr, quickly destroying a farm, and attacking the player on sight. The trouble comes when a slime comprised of two types eats the plort of a third slime type. So a rock slime eating a tabby plort will turn into a rock tabby slime, and drop both kind of plorts when it poops, being a far more efficient source of income, but also growing larger and taking up more plot space.
If a slime eats a plort of another type of slime, it will adopt some of the properties of that slime. The various plorts all have fluctuating market values, so you will want to have a way to harvest as many kinds of plorts as you can to continue making a good flow of cash. When you feed a slime, it poops out a “plort,” a little diamond with properties reflecting what breed it is.
Sure, they might invade a chicken coop or two, or clean a tree of its fruit, but pick them up, put them back in their pen, and all is right again in the farm. Very early on, this doesn’t seem like a big deal. Slimes have curious and unpredictable personalities, and will often try to escape their pens, especially when hungry. And it is a commodity which demands your constant attention and diligence. Control of my farm quickly slipped through my fingers as I expanded all of my available plots, and it was all I could do just to feed my existing slimes and keep them happy before I was able to become more grounded and find a decent balance among the various activities available to me.Īgain, you are not growing crops, (well, sometimes) but alien livestock. Although there is a typical day and night cycle, I found myself seldom sleeping through the night. There is a ton to do here, so much you won’t have time for all of it. I also didn’t find it necessary to enhance my engagement level. There is a “story” here, all passed to you through notes in an email system, but I found it so utterly disengaging in its loose presentation that I ignored it entirely. You won’t get married, make babies, and establish a lineage this game is very strictly focused on the work you will be doing to build a thriving slime farm, the market your tasks as a rancher revolve around, and the expansive environment you will traverse during your time spent in the world. There is no town, no NPCs to interact with.
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Luckily, that isn’t the case as this is without a doubt the most engaging work simulator I have ever played, despite falling short of the more immersive “slice of life” expectations set by other games in the genre such as Rune Factory, Harvest Moon, and Stardew Valley.įirst of all, Slime Rancher lacks some of the typical meat you will find in other farm games. What the hell is it about anthropomorphic slimes that is so cute? I know it’s what drove me to play the original Dragon Quest, so even if that was the only thing Slime Rancher did right I probably would have at least gotten a kick out of it. Farming sims have always held little interest for me mainly because of the eventual tedium that sets in, but the personality and charm I had seen in previews practically forced my hand. I might be the wrong person to write this review simply because I can’t get over cuteness and charm, which was pretty much all I was expecting to enjoy about Slime Rancher.
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