Every Slime Rancher game, ranked
All 2 Slime Rancher games we hold, spanning 2017 to 2025: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 206,582 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Slime Rancher (GamingPickz Score 8.6), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Slime Rancher games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Slime Rancher games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
Slime Rancher at a glance Released 2017 Studio Monomi Park Player sentiment 98% positive of 156,780 Critics 81/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 1 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 98% shrinks to 98.0 on 156,780 reviews, then blends with the 81 critic aggregate, giving 8.6.
What the data supports- 98% positive across 156,780 reviews is a strong signal at that volume, where a few enthusiasts cannot move the number.
- Small install at 1 GB.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 98 against 81. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
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Slime Rancher 2
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
8.2GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceSlime Rancher 2 at a glance Released 2025 Studio Monomi Park Player sentiment 95% positive of 49,802 Critics No aggregate Price $29.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 8 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 95% shrinks to 94.9 on 49,802 reviews, giving 8.2. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 8 GB.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Slime Rancher game we can score is Slime Rancher at 8.6. The lowest is Slime Rancher 2 at 8.2, a 0.4-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Slime Rancher at $19.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Slime Rancher, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Slime Rancher entries on Steam:
- Verified: Slime Rancher 2
- Playable: Slime Rancher
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Slime Rancher games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Slime Rancher series, game by game
Every Slime Rancher game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2017
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. (Steam)
Reception
Slime Rancher The Early Access version of the Slime Rancher received generally positive reviews. Heather Alexandra from Kotaku noticed some bugs, but gave the game a positive review, saying that "I'm not usually a fan of games with catharsis but when I return to my bright and goofy farm at the end of the day? I can't help but smile as wide as my slimy little friends. (Wikipedia)
- 2025
Continue the adventures of Beatrix LeBeau as she journeys across the Slime Sea to Rainbow Island, a land brimming with ancient mysteries, and bursting with wiggly, new slimes to wrangle in this sequel to the smash-hit, Slime Rancher. (Steam)
Reception
Slime Rancher 2 received positive reviews upon its version 1. 0 release. Checkpoint Gaming gave praise to the game's art style, visuals, and addictive gameplay loop. (Wikipedia)
Slime Rancher, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Slime Rancher vs other series
How Slime Rancher stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Slime Rancher games are there?
We hold 2 Slime Rancher games in the catalogue, released between 2017 and 2025. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Slime Rancher game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Slime Rancher rates highest at 8.6. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Slime Rancher games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2017 to 2025. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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