Slime Rancher is a sandbox style game where you explore and gather resources to build up your village. It has "overwhelmingly positive" reviews on Steam and a vast majority of the private reviews are positive.

Basically you are a rancher who runs around with your vacuum gun and suck up slime creatures around the area and then carry them back to corral them in pens. You also have the ability to vacuum up really anything else including food items to feed to said slimes who then poop out currency (I'm not making this up) so that you can earn money to purchase upgrades for your farm.

Does this sound silly yet? Well that is pretty much the entire game.

Pink slimes are the easiest to gather and will eat basically anything. There are a wide variety of other slimes to collect as well and if you put different slimes in the same pens they will eat one another and create hybrid slimes. Also, if you overpopulate any of the pens they will escape and wreak havoc on your ranch.

The pros are that the game is cute and charming. The cons are that what i described above is basically the entire game, and it never ends. Sure, other areas get unlocked as you gather enough poop currency but then you enter those areas and it is basically the same thing all over again with a new type of slime introduced into gameplay.

I played for about 5 hours (not in a row) hoping that what I was experiencing was just the tutorial portion of the game and there was magic waiting at the end of it. NOPE.

I would imagine kids who play Minecraft endlessly might find this sort of thing fun and genuinely want to build up their farm. It is my understanding that the game sells really well also. I guess I am just going to have to write this one off as something whose popularity I am incapable of understanding. I was bored in the first 20 minutes and actually feeling a little bit sick from the first person perspective after another 20.

I can't recommend this game unless you are under the age of 10. If you like this game and you believe there is something I am missing, please enlighten me.