Slime Rancher
BANGER · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.36/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 158,752
- Critics
- 81 players 17 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 14.7h
- To 100%
- 38.2h 2.6x the story
- Achievements
- 57
Price and sales
- Sales
- 84 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 40d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,044 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 84 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Fruitbus ($24.99, scores 59) and Slime Rancher 2 ($29.99, scores 81), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $22.02. It costs $19.99.
More about Slime Rancher
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 17 points higher at 98 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 29 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,216 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 6,087 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 14.7 hours; clearing it takes 38, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
158,752 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Feed cute bouncing blobs, sel their plorts on the market, upgrade your vacpack and explore a gorgeous pastel world. It is impossible to play this without relaxing. Nice cozy game.
2 more reviews
If you need something bright and happy without being boring, this is the game for you. I've played it through a couple of times now, and it's especially wonderful when I'm otherwise unhappy for some reason.
Wow, Just wow, this game is an amazing farming simulator and explorer game, the art style is beautiful and vibrant, and the exploration is beyond fun, searching high and low and every corner and crevice, finding new slimes and new cool combinations between them, the story was fun to read and take in with the sights and left me feeling satisfied. overall 10/10 would play again
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who 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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512MB VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Slime Rancher scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/433340/slime-rancherReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.