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Gather, breed, and tend to a brood of mischievous, turd-gobbling cuties in Slime Rancher, the latest game to be given away free on the Epic Games Store. Released in 2017 after a stretch in early access, Monomi Park's Slime Rancher is a... metroidvania farming game? Gather different species of slimes from around the world, build and upgrade pens for them, feed their poo (plorts) to…
Feature: Design of a slime
I've spent a looooooot of time with my slimes in Slime Rancher [official site] and watching them bounce and coo as they wiggle free of my corrals and wobble off like determined balloon-toddlers has been a delight. But how does one convert a ball into a creature with such a strong sense of spirit? How do you keep their little slime modifications from becoming a…
Feature: Blooping and glooping!
When I go to my exercise class in the evening sometimes the matter of what I do for a living comes up in pre-class chat. Usually I can be like, "This is a credible grown-up profession. I absolutely pinky swear this to be true!" The last few days I have spent 30 hours corralling adorable bouncing blobs and selling their poop on the stock market…
Feature: Home on the ranch
It sounded like people enjoyed looking round my Subnautica base a while back so I decided to make a video tour of my Slime Rancher [official site] base as well! It's absolutely full of creatures and resources you won't discover for ages as well as the more basic parts of the game so SPOILERS AHOY. I'd say only watch it if you don't want to…
Feature: Listen now or embrace the void
The hosts of the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, know neither respite nor shame. This week we have a chat about "replayability" - what games are the most replayable? Why do we always go back to our "comfort games"? Exactly how many hours has Adam spent in Crusader Kings II? Hint: QUITE LOTS. Meanwhile, Pip attempts to cultivate the excrement of wet monsters in…
Slime Rancher [official site], the charmingly frustrating game about capturing and breeding adorable slime creatures who want only to escape and eat everything in sight, will leave early access on August 1st. If you've been waiting for a full launch before starting your own ranch to sell dung, draw a pooey circle around that Tuesday. For those who, like Rick Lane, started playing after Slime…
As if escaping their pens to chase your chickens and devour each others' faeces weren't trouble enough, now those adorably pesky slimes are messing with the fabric of the universe. A big Slime Rancher [official site] update launched this week to add a new area housing a troublesome new breed of slime, the quantum slimes. Good luck wrangling a creature which exists across several potential…
Monomi Park's Slime Rancher [official site], that wacky and wiggly slime wrangling game, this week received a significant update in the Slime Science Update, available now. In it you can find numerous slimes and the basics of Slime Science itself. It is much stickier than regular science, you see, and you must let the game educate you before you can be trusted with it.
Feature: Fecal Farming Simulator
Slime Rancher [official site] is the cutest game about selling shit ever made. Admittedly it's probably the only game about selling shit ever made, but I don't know for certain and googling "Shitselling games" tends to bring up commercial flops like Bulletstorm rather than games that literally involve the flogging of faecal matter. If you've seen anything of Monomi Park's debut, which slithered onto Early…
The best thing about Slime Rancher's [official site] trailer is the sound effects. Lots of "wheeee!" and "haha!" and gloopy landing noises. On the auditory cuteness spectrum I would put it somewhere between Loco Roco and Yoshi Touch & Go.
