Slime Rancher

Slime Rancher is a first person shooter simulation game developed and published by Monomi Park in 2016 for the Xbox One and PC.

Plot
Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher 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. Here she owns a small ranch of a few slimes, and a range which is large and vast. However it seems as if somebody used to be here, due to the placement of holographic messages around the range. It is up to her to find these messages and to gain Newbucks to become profitable.

Why It's Adorable

 * 1) Lots of slimes to discover and handle.
 * 2) You can grow food in your ranch by purchasing a garden.
 * 3) The slime creatures are very cute and cuddly.
 * 4) A day and night cycle exists in the game which actually does affect the main gameplay.
 * 5) The Jorunal gives you information about your ranch, items, and more. It has short descriptions of all objects, slimes, and structures found in the ranch and outside the ranch.
 * 6) Choose what you want to do with your garden, and how you want to advance in the game.
 * 7) Purchase structures with Newbucks, which are earned by selling plorts excreted by slimes when they eat food.
 * 8) More upgrades appear as you play the game, which can be purchased with Newbucks.
 * 9) Unlock new areas of the range by paying Newbucks.
 * 10) Get keys to new areas by feeding gordo slimes.
 * 11) Feed plorts to small slimes to turn them into "Largo" Slimes, slimes with the traits of both that original slime and the traits of the slime that generated that plort. However, feeding a second, different plort will turn them into a hostile monster that will destroy your other slimes, and the only way to destroy them is with water.
 * 12) A map is found in the game and can be used to find where you are in the large open world map.
 * 13) Great soundtrack and music.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Sometimes, you will lose your save file for no reason if you did not play the game for a few months.
 * 2) It doesn’t get updated anymore, but this could just be because the sequel game is currently in the works.
 * 3) Some parts of the game can be very tedious and annoying, like having to get enough Newbucks to unlock new parts of the ranch.

Game Tips

 * 1) Buy the water container upgrade as soon as possible so you can deal with the bad slimes.
 * 2) You will lose your inventory if you die or use the Emergency Return (which also kills you) so if you either doubt you can survive or know you can't survive quickly run back to your ranch so you can regenerate your health and save your inventory.
 * 3) * For that matter, avoid falling into the ocean because it will kill you instantly.
 * 4) When creating largo slimes, it's best to make pink largos because they will eat anything.

Reception
On Steam, the game has an "Overwhelmingly Positive" rating, with 97% of reviews being positive ones.