Slime Rancher

Slime Rancher Review: The Whole Far, Far Range for Under $9

$7.99 to $8.99 Once, Three Modes, No Shop

There is no free version. Google Play sold the game at $7.99 and the App Store at $8.99 on the day we checked — a pre-registration price of $7.49 ran before the May 26, 2026 launch, according to a Play reviewer who paid it — and neither store shows an advertising badge or a currency. You play Beatrix LeBeau on the Far, Far Range, vacuuming slimes into the vacpack, penning them in corrals, feeding them from gardens and coops, and selling their plorts on the Plort Market or filling daily orders on the Range Exchange to expand the ranch. Adventure Mode is the original pacing, Casual Mode removes the pressure, and Rush Mode is a timed money challenge. The Dry Reef, Moss Blanket and Indigo Quarry are all in, hybrid slimes included. Prices are regional and the two stores already differ.

Touch Vacpack, PS4/PS5/Xbox Pads Only, No Backbone

Playdigious rebuilt the interface for a thumb: a virtual stick, a vacpack trigger, slot buttons for the four slime tanks and a jump — a May 2026 Play review with 30 helpful votes calls the touch controls the surprise of the port. Controller support is the asterisk: the Play listing states compatibility only with PS4, PS5 and Xbox controllers, and that same reviewer's complaint is that a Backbone grip does not work yet. Cloud saves move progress between Android devices and Google Play Games achievements are wired in. What is not in the port is any multiplayer, because the base game never had one — Slime Rancher is a solo ranching sim, and the phone version keeps it that way.

iOS 18, Android 10, 1.1 GB — and a Rating That Backs the Port

The requirements are steeper than the art suggests: the App Store build asks for iOS 18.0 and 1.1 GB, Google Play sets Android 10 as the floor, and the current Android build is 1.1.1103, updated in July 2026. Three months in, the port has the best numbers of any Playdigious game we have checked — 4,240 reviews at 4.8 on Play with over 10,000 installs, and 1,611 App Store ratings at 4.8 — and the top reviews come from people who owned it on console and call the phone version the same game. A July 2026 review with 13 votes sums up the audience: a cozy life sim in your pocket, worth the money. Google's data-safety card declares no data collected and none shared with third parties. The absence to note is the sequel: Slime Rancher 2 remains PC and console only, so this is the only official slime ranching on a phone.