Playtime: 15 Hours
Score: 7/10

A fun little farming game! So recently me and my best friend did Steam Family share with our two accounts so we could bum off of each other's games. While he goes to my library to play Maneater and Cyberpunk 2077, I was like give me that Slime Rancher baby lol But I have been wanting to play this game for a while so it was a nice opportunity to play it.

I'm not a huge fan of farming games but this one caught my attention with its unique mechanics and first person view. It very much has that cozy, relaxing feel that farming games often have and aside from micromanaging your ranch, it's not a very challenging game. You collect slimes and bring them back to your ranch to gather materials from them. You have to put them into corrals, feed them specific types of food and make sure they don't escape. At first it can be a little overwhelming since the game doesn't have a main story to guide you through really and you're kind of just left to figure things out on your own, though the game does have an encyclopedia that gives you information about the different slimes as well the structures and gadgets you can build.

Exploration is another cool aspect as you get a jetpack that lets you get to higher places and you need to find keys in order to access other regions of the planet you're on. It's fun and I liked the artstyle. There is combat but it's very basic and enemies do very little damage to you so it's easy to defeat them or just outright avoid them.

Only thing that disappointed me was the story or lack thereof. There is a story that you learn through reading emails from other characters in the game or finding old messages left to you by the previous ranch owner. It's fine for what it is, but I kind of got bored at the 15 hour mark as farming and building games aren't really my thing like I said and without a structured story campaign to get me through it, it got tedious towards the end. But it's still a unique and fun game to play for a few hours.

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