Problems aside, Slime rancher actually plays host to plenty of addictive fun. Advertisements I apparently found this so bizarre that I took a screenshot for you!Īlongside performance issues, the game crashed on me twice in my 20-hour-ish playthrough and I fell through the ground multiple times, losing all of the valuable resources I had in my inventory – which was VERY annoying. If you want my advice, don’t turn it on, it kills frames like crazy and honestly a little screen tearing is better than playing at 15-20fps. Allowing you to turn v-sync on and off to help with performance, something I’ve never seen in a console game. One thing I found extremely bizarre for a console version of a game is that Slime Rancher actually has v-sync options in its settings. Putting up with that for multiple hours a day was starting to drive me a little crazy, luckily the gameplay kept me going, though. They’d frequently cut out at incredibly frequent intervals and it was very grating. The main thing which bothered me was the music and sound effects jittering. However, I know that a lot of gamers nowadays are very sensitive about frame-rates and will refuse to play a game unless it’s going to be a consistent 60fps by default.
I can handle frame drops and more, I spent a good deal of my teen years playing games on a pathetic laptop at around 15fps or even less, and v-sync issues were abundant then too. Advertisementsįor me, it wasn’t the worst thing in the world. They only show up on Weekends.Īvoiding this completely, however, would actually mean that you’d reset the game pretty much once every hour depending on how much exploring you do – which if you want the platinum trophy will be a lot, especially later in the game. I can’t really show frame-drops with an image, so here, have a screenshot of a “Party Gordo” Slime to lighten the mood. It seems to be because the game doesn’t despawn anything once you’re no longer nearby, so the more of the island you explore, and the more slimes which you then spawn as a result, the more the game begins to chug. It’s semi-easily avoidable, if you save and quit when this begins happening then upon loading back in, the game will run smoothly again. Not at first though, the first time you boot into the game it runs as smooth as butter, but unfortunately it only takes a couple of hours before you see the screen-tearing coming in, frames dropping constantly and the music jittering and glitching out.
I tend to try and avoid starting a review off on a negative (unless it is really bad), but Slime Rancher has one fundamental issue which can really make or break your experience when it comes to playing it the game lags. Now that we’re in something of a gaming drought in the long wait for The Last of Us: Part II and Ghost of Tsushima, I thought it was time to sit back and get farming those slimes. Being that it went on sale some time last year I snatched it up but then sat on it for many months while other games stole my attention. Advertisements Slime Rancher is a game I have had my eye on for years, this cutesy resource management game has all the right ingredients for a fun time-waster but always cost a little too much for my liking.
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