Except for the basic pink slime, slimes will only eat one of the three types of food fruit, veggie, and meat. The game's main economic aspect revolves around feeding slimes the appropriate food items so that they produce 'plorts', which can then be sold in exchange for Newbucks, which are used to purchase upgrades to the rancher's equipment or farm buildings. To progress she has notes left by the former owner of the ranch that help her on her journey through the Far Far Range. Slimes are gelatinous living organisms of various sizes and characteristics. The player controls a character named Beatrix LeBeau, a rancher who moves to a planet far from Earth called the Far Far Range to live the life of a ' slime rancher', which consists of constructing her ranch and exploring the world of the Far Far Range in order to collect, raise, feed, and breed slimes. The game is played in an open world and from a first-person perspective. The user moves the character through different environments and can collect mucus, food and tailors by sucking them in with their vacuum tool (the so-called “Vacpack”, a portmanteau of vacuum and a backpack).In-game screenshot showing the VacPack nozzle, a few 'Pink' slimes, and a 'plort' (lower-left) The main economic aspect of the game is to feed the slimes with appropriate food to produce “spare parts” that can then be sold in exchange for Newbucks – the currency needed to buy upgrades for a rancher’s equipment or outbuildings.

The player controls a character named Beatrix Lebeau, a rancher who travels to a planet far from Earth called “Far Far Range” to live the life of a “slime ranch”, which consists of building his ranch and exploring the environment to collect, grow, feed and breed mucus – gelatinous living organisms of various sizes and characteristics. The gameplay introduces first-person exploration in an open world. As of February 28, 2019, the game has sold 2 million copies.

The PlayStation 4 version was released on August 2018. The game was released as an Early Access game in January 2016, with an official release for Windows, macOS, Linux and Xbox One on August 1, 2017. Slime Rancher is a life simulation video game developed and published by American indie studio Monomi Park.

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