Slime Rancher

This game just... made me happy. I suffer from clinical depression and anxiety. When I was at my darkest, my best friend recommended this game to me. This game helped me... in ways i couldn't even imagine. My other friends asked me after that, "How have you become so happy all of a sudden," and i just said, "SlimeRancher."

Helps with the depression

It's the best! I like how the Slime Ranchers catch slimes in their place. It's just so fun just catching the slimes. It's just so fun!
- Henry (6 years old)

cure for depression

Slime Rancher is an amazing game, You have to explore and find keys to explore further, Find the rarest slimes and cross breed them, upgrade your ranch, and use technology to ranch even smarter.
There are many different kinds of slimes, They all have a favorite food, All Slimes poop out their own plort kind if you feed them and poop out 2 of those plorts if you feed them their favorite food. Plorts are worth money. The goal of the game is to farm these plorts and upgrade your farm and its technology.
You own a blow/suck gun that can hold slimes, plorts, fruits, etc, You can upgrade the capacity, but you can also upgrade your speed, your jetpack, even your ranch itself. Then there are end game technologies like teleporters, mining equipment to extract extra rare crafting materials. You can even craft decorations for your slimes, like googly eyes.
If you feed a type of plort to a different type of slime it will mix the 2 types of slimes into 1, But be carefull, If you mix a third it will turn into a Tarr, Which is a dark slime that turns all other slimes and eats ranchers. It is important to take on the Tarr as soon as possible before your whole ranch is gone.
In the Wild you also find Feral slimes, these can be of any type and will attack you, There are also Largos which are bigger slimes that can not be sucked up by your gun, you can transport them however, but only 1 at a time, And they are able to attack you if you carry them.
There are also Gordo slimes, These are the biggest slimes, They can not be moved, The goal is to feed them until they burst, They mostly drop a slime key, Which you can use to open up doors to new areas or shortcuts to certain areas. Some slimes are pretty tough to find, But getting all their favorite foods is even harder.
On your ranch you have little squares which you can use for several things, Like growing fruit, slime pens, storage lockers, etc. These squares are limited, so you have to think hard about what slimes to mix and what slimes to keep. You unlock more squares by unlocking more patches of land, There are even squares outside your ranch late endgame.
There are several special areas, where you have to hunt for a fruit or a specific slime, They mostly are collect as many as possible each round to unlock end game rewards. There are also missions at your ranch where people request certain items, They can be pretty easy sometimes so it is worth it to keep an eye out.
The game is mostly exploring, finding new areas, and bring exotic stuff back to your ranch to grow or breed it further. just pushing 300 slimes in a pen is also funny to do. It is a nice relaxing game with great level design and very charming graphics.
Plorts can be sold at the market, This will be your main income, The prices fluctuate heavy, So it might be worth storing some stuff if prices are really low, End game you can even create portable markets that you can place anywhere you like. There is a suprising amount of end game content in this game.
I do not think it is a great game for replayability, But getting 50 hours in the game should be pretty easy. There are other gamemodes, but the main game is where it shines, Taking your time, taking care of some slimes and go out when you feel like it. End game will feel a bit bland, Collecting hundreds of the same fruit kind in the same general area feels like a chore.
The game won't run if you have a controller connected and the per game setting is set to global settings or forced on. Set it to forced off at the per game input setting in the properties window and the game will run great with a controller.
Overall the game is great, there is not a real challenge, Even Rush mode is pretty easy once you got the hang of the game, But it is very relaxing, And extremely addictive, It has some great exploring and mixing slimes to see the result is just amazing. I have to give the game a solid 9.
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Steam Cloud Save
Working fine
Controller Support
Yes, Xbox One Bluetooth Working
Achievements
Just Right
FPS on Ultra
80 - 150 depending on Area
Launch Command
gamemoderun %command%
Issues
Does not run with Steam Input turned on
OS
Arch Linux
Kernel
5.3.5
DE
Gnome 3.34.1
CPU
Intel I7-6800K @ 4.20Ghz
GPU
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 (Nvidia 435.21 Drivers)

ADD MULTIPLAYER PLS ITLL BE 1000X BETTER. ITS THE REASON WHY I DONT PLAY IT ANYMORE AND I REALLY WANT TO AGAIN THANKS

Slime Rancher helped me through an exceedingly stressful and difficult time.
It's cute, fun and overall perfect. I'll be buying all of DLCs to support the wonderful developers and of course... to have fun.
Thank you, Monomi Park.