Last updated on July 27th, 2026 at 05:00 am
Slime Rancher – Simulation Game Review
Slime Rancher is a Simulation/Adventure game from Playdigious, first launched in 26th May 2026.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 1,342+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Slime Rancher Stand Out
Due to limited RAM, these devices are not compatible. You won’t have access to all the graphic settings and may experience some freezes or crashes: iPhone Xr, iPhone SE Gen 2 (2020), iPad Mini Gen 5, iPad Air Gen 3, iPad Gen 8, iPad Gen 9.
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.
[Explore a vibrant alien world, capture and tend to adorable slimes, and get a once-abandoned ranch back on track!]
FEATURES
- Play as a curious and adventurous woman trying to get her newly acquired slime ranch back on track.
- Use your trusty vacpack to collect adorable slimes in the wild. Each type has its own likes, dislikes, and sometimes even special needs that must be met to take care of them properly!
- Discover new hybrid species!
- Explore the vast, colorful nature of the Far, Far Range. Find slimes and gather resources!
- Roam around the sands of the Dry Reef, discover the wild flora of the Moss Blanket, and wonder at the shining crystals of the Indigo Quarry while uncovering hidden treasures!
- Earn money through daily requests or the market exchange to expand your ranch: decorate your estate, contain your slimes with corrals, grow crops and build coops to feed them.
- Earn money through daily requests on the Range Exchange or selling plorts on the Plort Market. Then decorate your ranch house, expand the corrals for your slimes, and feed them by growing gardens and building coops!
- Craft and upgrade your vacpack and tools for faster and better ranching!
- Follow Bea’s journey at your own pace with 3 different game modes! Adventure Mode lets you experience the trials and tribulations of ranching life as it really is. But you can also play Casual Mode for a cozier experience, or challenge yourself to succeed faster with Rush Mode!
CAREFULLY REDESIGNED FOR MOBILE
- Revamped interface – exclusive mobile UI with complete touch control
- Game Center achievements
- Cloud Saves – share your progress between iOS devices.
- Compatible only with PS4, PS5, and Xbox controllers
- iPhone 17 Optimization (including Pro Max)
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Slime Rancher is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th July 2026
Recent improvements include:
- Fixing some crashes that could occur when opening menus as the language was set on Chinese or Japanese.
- Fixing some crashes that might occur when detecting network connection
- Fixing incorrect device quality detection.
Download & Availability
Slime Rancher is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Slime Rancher on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone XS / iPhone XS Max / iPhone XR / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 12.9-inch, Wi-Fi) / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 11-inch, Wi-Fi) / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 12.9-inch, Cellular) / iPad Pro (3rd Gen, 11-inch, Cellular) / iPad Mini (5th Gen) / iPad Mini (5th Gen, Cellular) / iPad Air (3rd Gen) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
One of our favorite games, Im really excited for the 2nd one on mobile! (If it comes) anyways, we give a 5 stars.
We loveeee slime rancher. Ive got it on every console in our house. We play it every summer and its truly so fun. Im glad it finally came out on mobile and hope the second game does too.
Slime Rancher is a great game, and Ive played it on our computer. Now having it on the phone is amazing; it is a great fit for on-the-go play. It runs great too! The only problem Ive had is that we only have access to the low graphics setting, Im on the iPhone 17e so we feel like we should have access to higher settings but Im not a developer so we dont know how difficult it is.
We love it the graphics are so good 5 stars and some pets and npcs and quests and multiplayer and we have been waiting to play this we cant wait to play the slime ranchers 2.
On ipad, crashes upon making creating a game. Have seen lots of good reviews and have seen other people play it and always wanted to play it for ourselves but it crashes whenever we want to open our first game.
The game is cool. The game is fun and yeah, but the problem is you cant call out the Quicksilver slimes and that is a issue because we really love quicksilver slimes and also if you can actually add the saver slime so its not just Largo that would be even better. Also, if you add a slime rancher too, it would be awesome and if you add the and if you add multi player, we think it would get more famous but also if you guys if you guys are hearing this, if you guys can make a a slime called the raccoon slime which will spawn in a new biome called called the called the called and it could be called the jungle. Its like the moss blanket is gonna be like a relative to the jungle, but there would be a there would be more feral lines like the hunter area where its infested with Hunter Farrell slimes and if they if you guys do that, so then, if you guys try to collect the raccoon slimes you could, you can find them hidden in bushes while theres a bunch of Largo, Farrell, Largo, and river type everywhere that would be amazing and it would be more players playing also the raccoon. It should be the same thing as the ringtail it has everything but theres a strike in its eye on the line of its eyes. Its like its gonna be like a relative to the ringtail, but its gray and black, grey and black and like patterns of stripes so if you guys add it, it would be amazing so yeah enjoy your day and we hope you guys have a nice day. See ya bye bye now. :).
We love the game, but the tabby stone and its combos dont have a shine on their head and it makes it look weird, 5 stars.
Im happy Slime Rancher is on mobile now! Ive been playing this game since 2022 on the Xbox and its so fun.
Been on el ranch for years on console. Only recently discovered its also on mobile. Marvelous game.
This is a AMAZING game but it keeps crashing but other wise amazing we love the adventure of this game and all the different types of slimes and how all the largos look and how they act and people that like chill and adventure games will love this game.
We have been wanting to play this game for soooooooo long, but we didnt have a pc,ps5, or any console, we starting loving this game when our favorite youtuber Plech started playing it and we liked the game play and what the game is based on, now that we finally got to play it after years of waiting we can finally say that this is the best game everrrrrr.
We have been wanting to play this game for a while so when the mobile version was announced we were incredibly excited :) The optimization is great, but we would caution older devices to use lower fps and settings to prevent crashing. Overall, its a worthwhile game to play and the slimes are adorable.
Nose como lo asen pero lo tengo a medio y normalmente mi telfono estara bien caliente pero est tibio 11/10.
For some reason our master graphics quality is fixed on low even though we have an m5 ipad pro. The master graphics quality works fine on our iphone 17 letting us go to high so we dont know if it was intended to be like that or it is just our device. Other than that the game is great.
We love how you can connect your controller it makes us feel like back at home playing it on the ps4 but anywhere.
Words cannot begin to describe the joy this game brings us. Great game.
Its really good although we randomly noticed that we start randomly looking up without doing it, which is OK but started getting annoying so please fix it what Im basically saying is that our character keeps looking up without us controlling.
Great performance and the game is fun.
We have had this game on PC for a long time. And now its on mobile!? This game is just awesome! We just have one problem and thats with playing it on controller. You cant change any controls and it appears the sprinting control isnt working and the start button doesnt open the pause menu. If those things were changed that would be awesome.
This game is so cool !!! We cant stop playing it.
Peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak peak.
Ive played slime rancher many times on xbox and pc. Im so glad they moved it to mobile we literally cant stop playing when im away from home. We hope they one day add a slime rancher 2 as ive never played it.
Slime rancher is our favorite game and it wont load. So sad.
We LIKE THIS GAME IS FUNNY AND we CAN PLAY THIS ALL DAY.
We were so happy when we saw this because we didnt have a computer we really hope that game grows and grows.
Still love it has the charm little 8 year old us loved. Hope you guying we working on slime rancher three.
Ive been wanting this game for our switch and was OVERJOYED to see it as an app! Thank you :D The graphics and everything are amazing.
We have learned something about using Xbox controllers for this. You cannot directly connect it to the device with a cord. You need to use Bluetooth or else the sprint doesnt work. Im just looking to help! We dont know if its the same with other controllers.
Just a solid game with no flaws in design or gameplay. Very very enjoyable.
Started playing this on pc and fell in love. When we seen it was available on iPhone we purchased the day it was released. We love it.
Yo Im super happy it became mobile, its a little different in our opinion but most of the slimes look really silly and derpy and Im really happy that we get the secret style :3.
We are a fan of all slime rancher games we beat slime rancher 1 on Nintendo switch and we beat slime rancher 2 on pc we started playing slime rancher 2 when it was early access and now we can play our favorite game on the go.
So much fun!!!!!BUT for some reason we cant open the door to the ancient ruins.
This game has always been our favorite on consoles and pc, but now that its on phones we can play it on trips when Im bored.
Good just good btw DONT SAY 67 DEVELOPERS.
If youre ever in the car or bored just play this never fails have completed everything good gameplay and good job devs.
We liked it. Easy to understand, very intuitive and yet sufficiently interesting to wonder around by yourself. 10/10 Heavily appreciated while being in long trips.
Just as the title says. We got sick from playing it for 30 minutes. We tried several times and had to stop trying. Im so bummed because the game looks SO good, but FPS games really need more education on how to make them accessible to the full spectrum of motion sickness gamers, not just the most mild cases.
We have played this game for years and we are happy that it is finally available on the tablet and we found a bug rare slimes spawn more often than on other platforms so you can speed run it faster than on other platforms but we love the game.
Finally they made it for mobile! Super happy about that, definitely still getting used to the controls.
We from china this very good we like it.
We have this game on mobile and computer now and its PEAK and we play it everyday.
We love this game. Loved we played in the Xbox it amazing how it in phone now. But still need work done,it slow while playing. Moving to another application while still playing loose the progress.
Happy to finally see slime rancher, our favorite game since childhood finally on mobile! Ported very well.
Phosphor wings wont flap though.
We used to play this game with our cousin years ago on their xbox one and am so happy we can play it on our phone. No bugs or anything either so great optimization. THANK YOU DEVS this game is amazing and you guys did such good work on making it as good as you did for mobile.
This game runs very well and works excellently. We're so glad we decided to get it! Love the cute slimes.
We are having a great time with the game. Reliving all the old memories and playing on this port is great. There are still a couple bugs to definitely be worked out.we have not experienced our chickens being stuck in the floor in a very, very long time, but we are enjoying it all the same.
This app is so good and we just now got it that shows how fun it can be. Thank you.
We may have only played this game over at a friends house and loved it and now that we can actually get the game and play it ourselves we love it, when you said that the game might crash or freeze we actually did expect one or two times it would happen but it never did and we have a low end device even for a IPad the one thing we would like to do is switch the FPS or change the graphics because well our IPad does overheat when we play but overall this is a great port of the console edition and we would love to see games like this grow more and more. Thanks for a great port.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.5
- Size: 1,019.49 MB
- iOS: 18.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Playdigious
Last updated: 16th July 2026 | Genre: Simulation, Adventure | Developer: Playdigious