Slime Rancher

Shadowverse, Axiom Verge 2, Slime Rancher, Boyfriend Dungeon, Curious Expedition 2, Garden Story, and more hit the Switch

We had an inkling a Nintendo Indie Direct was imminent. The eShop almost constantly gains 30+ eShop titles per week. If fewer than 20 are showing as upcoming in any given week, it usually means a bunch of surprise releases are incoming. This week was looking slow, then...

2017: Five games you may have missed

This year commenced in the best possible fashion. Unusually for the quiet season of spring, we received several highly acclaimed hits in quick succession. Things settled down in the run-up to summer, leading to what has been a sporadic winter. A few quality titles, the usual solid but...

Slime Rancher – Review

Monomi Parkâ€™s slime nurturing sim possess one of the most important hallmarks of video game excellence: the ability to make hours fly by like mere minutes. This is mostly achieved via the shrewd inventory management system. Thatâ€™s shrewd from a design perspective; from the playerâ€™s perspective, the small...

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Out this week: Slime Rancher, Tacoma, The Long Dark, Mr. Shifty, Dino Frontier VR, more

Imagine Minecraft but with a focus on farming and harvesting rather than crafting and constructing. Now imagine that the only means of interacting with livestock â€“ cute and colourful slime balls, in this case â€“ is via a giant vacuum cleaner. That, chums, is Slime Rancher in the...