Corrals are like cages with transparent walls, keeping slimes inside but letting the player pass freely for water-based slimes you can construct a pond. Players start off on The Ranch with a few plots of land, upon which you can build a number of different structures. This resource gathering design and its purposeful limitations present players with plenty of decisions each time they venture out – what do you bring back, and what gets left behind? It also spurs you on to return and grab that rare slime you didn’t have a slot for the first time around. Your travel options can also be upgraded with a basic jetpack, more sprint energy, and so on.
You move quite quickly and can sprint, which makes travelling back and forth from the ranch quite tolerable. You can, of course, use newbucks to purchase capacity upgrades for each slot. The inventory of the Vacpack is forever locked to 4 unique slots, and those slots are limited to a certain number of resources. As you venture out and explore the planet, you’ll be able to suck in whatever slimes and resources you desire, but only up to a point. During the early weeks, Beatrix only has the Vacpack at her disposal – a special gun-like tool that can suck up resources and slimes. Unlike most games in the genre, Slime Rancher is played from a first person perspective in a well realized 3D world. The game’s main Adventure Mode lets you play at your own pace as you grow the farm and explore the world, but there’s also a 5 Day Rush mode that’s meant to see how much money you can make within the time limit, and try to set some high scores. Though there’s no dialogue, all of the text is quite amusing and light hearted. You’ll also come across messages from Hobson Twilligers, the previous owner of The Ranch before Beatrix arrived, that are scattered across the game world. While the game world does not have any other characters besides Beatrix, she will occasionally receive emails from Earth, helping avoid the feeling of total isolation. These local creatures look like happy and squishy blobs of… well, slime, with faces on them to help assert their mood. Here, on this strange but mostly welcoming alien planet, your objective is to create a successful farm by capturing and caring for slimes. Players assume the role of Beatrix LeBeau, a rancher who is sent to the 'Far, Far Range' many light years away from Earth. The narrative is minimalistic, as in most games of this type, but it does a solid job of setting up the unique environment.
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