Suck up a variety of wild slimes with your vacpack and cultivate them on your very own slime ranch on the Far, Far Range! Feed them, transform them, breed them, and sell their plort (aka poops) on the Plort Market for cash. Use the cash to expand your ranch operation and/or upgrade your vacpack. But watch out for the terrible Tarr slimes that will turn your adorable domesticated money-makers into slime and man-eating monsters!!
Currently in pre-alpha but can pre-order for $19.99 via Humble Bundle.
Nick Popovich talks about his “unexpected success” with Slime Rancher.
“I think it’s pretty important to understand that is the new advertising for games, streaming and YouTube and people informing one another through the channels they enjoy,” Popovich said. “Once you have Steam keys, you don’t want to just give them away to anyone who has 50 subscribers, but you want that to spread, because it’s worth it. If just one person buys it out of the entire lot who saw that YouTube video, it’s worth it. Because you broke even in terms of that sale, and now you’ve got however many thousand people who are aware of your game.”
“There’s a really great philosophy in the MMO space, ‘Let people quit your game.’ Let them happily walk away from your game, reach some point of closure and then they’ll come back when you release more content,” Popovich said. “And I think that’s still true for non-MMOs that are going to update over time. We hope people aren’t just clicking refresh, because they’re going to get burned out. The game’s just not built for that.”
Unfortunately, when I shoot my vacuum gun by clicking on the right mouse button the screen always moves to the floor. I have looked through the settings but have no idea how to shoot the vacuum and keep looking straight. I am not very proficient with a gamepad so that is not an option for me.
Anyone else run into this issue?
Edit:
Updated my video card drivers and now it is working correctly!
I have been playing this a lot more than I would have thought. It is fun and a bit addictive.
I am having a bit of a problem remembering where stuff is at (though this gets a bit easier when you open certain stationary portals). I do wish there was a way to pin notes on the map to remind myself where things are ( this probably has more to do with getting older and playing more games at the same time - hard to remember everything from three or four games that one is playing during the week).
I am wondering how much they can add to keep people interested. I suppose they can keep adding slime types and the new Science Lab area does look interesting (I do not have all to slime types needed yet to use it much at this point).
There is both discovery and exploration aspects to the game. You can create different slime combinations to produce slime ports (slime poop) more efficiently to sell and now with the addition of the Science Lab section the poop can also be used to craft items in the game.
You also want to explore and find different types of slime critters that all produce different slime ports to sell on the market. The market can fluctuate so you could opt to save certain ports types until the price is right. You alse need to discover Slime Keys that open different areas where other slime types (and their food types exist).
I also am enjoying the farming aspect and raising different types of chickens.
v0.6.0 was released awhile ago and V 1.0 comes out August 1st!
Also the game has sold over 900k copies!
Slime Rancher, a VERY serious game, has now sold over 900,000 copies! Thank you all for supporting us and see you Aug1 for official release! pic.twitter.com/N86AaUqLc7
