Slime Rancher Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-08-27
- Relaxing and calming experience
- Fun and lighthearted gameplay
- Cute and colorful art style
- Tarr slimes cause frustration
- Gameplay becomes repetitive
- Lack of multiplayer and content
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMpositiveWindows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 156,674
- Positive
- 153,54698.0%
- Negative
- 3,1282.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 11,196,617
- Estimated revenue
- $223,820,374
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 930.50%
- Estimated copies lost
- 6,646
- Estimated revenue lost
- $132,854
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 930.5% Avg playtime 0.9h | 3872.1% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 2801.5% Avg playtime 59.2h | 17,74195.9% Avg playtime 34.1h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 4.8 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 43.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 308.1 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,877.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
18,501 total
Organic purchasers16,33488.3%
Voted up: 98%
Key activations2,16711.7%
Voted up: 98%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
18,501 total
First impression0-2h8334.50%
Voted up: 87%
Mid game2-10h7,07038.2%
Voted up: 98%
Late game10-20h4,41423.9%
Voted up: 98%
Endgame20h+6,18433.4%
Voted up: 99%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
93.8%
Global baseline 98.0%
97 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 156,674 total.