Games Like Slime Rancher

Continue the adventures of Beatrix LeBeau as she journeys across the Slime Sea to Rainbow Island, a land brimming with ancient mysteries, and bursting with wiggly, new slimes to wrangle in this sequel to the smash-hit, Slime Rancher.

Why similar: Open World 21.6%, Cute 21.1%, First-Person 11.4%, Colorful 10.4%, Family Friendly 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the original's exact formula with more slime wrangling, colorful exploration, and cozy ranch-building on another vibrant alien frontier.

Catch mysterious living snacks and feed them to your friends in this unusual island adventure!

Why similar: Cute 23.9%, First-Person 15.8%, Exploration 15.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Colorful 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person creature-catching, goofy humor, and whimsical world make it one of the closest games to Slime Rancher's playful exploration vibe.

Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!

Why similar: Cute 26.5%, Open World 25%, Exploration 18.5%, Colorful 14%, Family Friendly 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same upbeat charm through creature collecting, farming, and light management in a colorful and funny setting.

Welcome to Paleo Pines, a charming island known for its friendly dinosaurs, quirky townsfolk, and mysterious past. Befriend dinos and enlist their help to fix up your ranch and farm crops to create your cozy dino sanctuary! Then set out with your companion, Lucky, to uncover the island’s secrets.

Why similar: Cute 20.4%, Open World 20.1%, Exploration 16.4%, Colorful 10.4%, Funny 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Instead of slimes you befriend and ranch adorable dinosaurs, giving you a similarly cute creature-care loop in a bright, gentle world.

Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. See your actions change the world for better! Bring the Evertree back to life in this breathtaking world-crafting sandbox, with life management and adventure elements.

Why similar: Open World 17.6%, Cute 14.7%, Sandbox 11.4%, Exploration 11.3%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures a similarly wholesome rhythm of exploring, restoring, and tending a lively world with very little pressure.

A 3D pet simulation where you raise your own personal hive of mutating dogs, physically simulated all the way down to their guts! Wobbledogs is a casual and chill sandbox for players of all ages who want to care for their very own virtual pets in a surprising, unique, and stress-free environment.

Why similar: Cute 26.3%, Sandbox 19.4%, Colorful 12.6%, Funny 11.5%, Family Friendly 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Slime Rancher was caring for strange, lovable creatures and watching them evolve, this is a great next step.

Unwind and enjoy the slow life in Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles, a relaxing open-world adventure game. Yonder is set in the world of Gemea. A natural island paradise with eight distinct environments ranging from tropical beaches to snow-capped summits.

Why similar: Open World 35.1%, Exploration 17%, Cute 16.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Adventure 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its combat-light open-world exploration, crafting, and cozy atmosphere match the peaceful discovery side of Slime Rancher really well.

You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.

Why similar: Open World 23.5%, Cute 21.8%, Sandbox 18.5%, Exploration 18.5%, Family Friendly 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This combines open-ended exploration, gathering, farming, and adorable world design in a way that scratches the same relaxed sandbox itch.

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

Why similar: Open World 42.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Exploration 10%, Adventure 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its cozy crafting-and-expansion loop gives a similar feeling of steadily building up your little life in a charming, colorful world.

Stardew Valley meets Pokémon! Experience a content-rich JRPG game inspired by the classics! Raise cute blob creatures, take care of your farm and make friends with the people of Clover Town.

Why similar: Cute 32.1%, Sandbox 15%, Exploration 14.2%, Family Friendly 10.1%, Fantasy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its blob-raising, farming, and cheerful town life feel very close to Slime Rancher's mix of cute companions and cozy progression.

Let your empathy guide you as you play an exciting action-adventure, creature-saver game. Understand and tame the creatures of Ava and let them lead you through a variety of ecosystems – all in the hopes of saving the planet from a life-consuming infection.

Why similar: Cute 25.3%, Exploration 25.1%, Colorful 15%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Adventure 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This colorful creature-focused adventure shares Slime Rancher's sense of wonder by centering exploration and helping magical wildlife rather than fighting.

"WELCOME TO THE PIONEER PROGRAM! As the newest recruit of Kindred Aerospace - The 4th best interstellar space exploration company - Your job is to determine if the planet ARY-26 planet is fit for humans. You may be short on equipment and experience, but you'll figure it out. Good luck!

Why similar: Exploration 34.2%, First-Person 23.2%, Colorful 18.1%, Adventure 17%, Action 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It has the same appeal of exploring a bizarre alien world in first-person, just with more action and satire than ranching.

The Gunk is an action-adventure game in which you play as Rani, part of our duo of gritty space haulers. As they’re struggling to bring in funds, they chance upon an untouched planet brimming with life. They came in search of valuable resources, and it looks like they’ve hit the jackpot…

Why similar: Exploration 28.2%, Colorful 21.4%, Family Friendly 18.1%, Female Protagonist 16.3%, Adventure 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Exploring a vibrant alien landscape and vacuuming up strange goo makes it feel mechanically and visually adjacent to Slime Rancher.

Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.

Why similar: Open World 32.6%, Cute 16.8%, Exploration 16.6%, Adventure 9.2%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its whimsical exploration, toy-like physics, and cheerful sci-fi style capture a lot of the same lighthearted discovery.

Moonstone Island is a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100 islands to explore. Make friends, brew potions, collect Spirits, and test your strength in card-based encounters to complete your Alchemy training!

Why similar: Cute 43%, Sandbox 30.7%, Fantasy 13.8%, Simulation 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Creature collecting, farming, and building up your home base make it a strong fit for Slime Rancher fans who want more systems depth.

In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Why similar: Open World 26.7%, Exploration 19.5%, Sandbox 17.7%, Management 15.5%, First-Person 15.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its relaxed sci-fi homesteading on an alien planet echoes Slime Rancher's frontier mood even though it swaps slimes for mech farming.

Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.

Why similar: Open World 39.3%, Exploration 20.9%, Sandbox 18.5%, Adventure 7.1%, Colorful 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although less cute, it shares the joy of colorful alien-planet exploration, base expansion, and low-stress resource gathering.

Your spaceship crashed on an alien planet. Explore, salvage, craft, trade, manage and upgrade your way back home!

Why similar: Open World 20.7%, Cute 17.8%, Exploration 13.5%, Colorful 9.6%, Funny 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It channels the same calm, exploratory spirit with light survival, scavenging, and an inviting off-world atmosphere.

APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees! Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture & floriculture.

Why similar: Open World 19.7%, Cute 17.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Exploration 13.5%, Management 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on breeding, caring for, and expanding around cute little creatures taps into the same satisfying management side as slime ranching.

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Why similar: Cute 23.5%, Exploration 19.3%, Open World 17.8%, Great Soundtrack 11.2%, Adventure 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the ranching systems, but its cheerful exploration and feel-good discovery hit a similar relaxing sweet spot.

Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

Why similar: Open World 31.1%, Exploration 19.3%, Sandbox 18.3%, Funny 9.1%, Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This offers a more combat-heavy but still funny and colorful take on alien-world gathering, crafting, and base-building.

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Sandbox 27.1%, Open World 25.8%, Exploration 17%, Adventure 11.6%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its addictive gather-craft-expand loop mirrors the satisfying progression of building up your ranch, just in a more compact and abstract format.

You're a curious little kitty with a big personality, on an adventure to find your way back home. Explore the city, make new friends with stray animals, wear delightful hats, and leave more than a little chaos in your wake. After all, isn't that what cats do best?

Why similar: Cute 21.5%, Open World 15.7%, Exploration 13.7%, Sandbox 12.9%, Funny 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The mischievous cuteness and freeform exploration appeal to the same players who enjoyed Slime Rancher's playful world and light objectives.

Even the smallest person can make a big difference. Join Alba, as she sets out to save her beautiful island and its wildlife. And possibly start a revolution.

Why similar: Open World 20.9%, Cute 16%, Exploration 13.9%, Family Friendly 9.7%, Funny 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its wholesome tone and gentle creature-focused exploration make it a great choice if you loved Slime Rancher's kindness and color.

Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again!

Why similar: Cute 32.9%, Open World 29.3%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Simulation 8.3%, Family Friendly 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more social and less open-ended, it has the same cute, low-stakes charm and animal-loving energy that Slime Rancher fans often want.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.3%, Exploration 27.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Adventure 12.6%, Singleplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This cozy sandbox focuses on collecting, crafting, and gradually building up your own space in a similarly laid-back way.

Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!

Why similar: Cute 27.1%, Open World 26.3%, Exploration 23.8%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its clean-up, harvesting, and homestead-building loop offers a comparable sense of relaxed first-person-ish resource collecting and upgrading.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.

Why similar: Sandbox 30.6%, Cute 19%, Adventure 18.7%, Open World 17.4%, Colorful 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its bright world, satisfying gathering loop, and creative home-building make it a strong pick if you liked Slime Rancher's playful progression.

Take care of your own island and sail with your boat in this cozy farming adventure! Relax and unwind exploring a tropical archipelago or harvesting your own crops while helping others. Discover the story of Summer in Mara, with farming, crafting and exploring mechanics.

Why similar: Cute 25.7%, Exploration 21.5%, Sandbox 17.2%, Colorful 9.6%, Female Protagonist 9%

Why You'll Like It: The colorful island setting, farming, and gentle exploration make it a good match for the softer, more wholesome side of Slime Rancher.

Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?

Why similar: Cute 21.2%, Management 19.9%, Sandbox 17%, Colorful 9.7%, Funny 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Managing and caring for adorable creatures in a bright, toy-like world makes it a decent fit for players who mainly loved the ranching side of Slime Rancher.

A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!

Why similar: Cute 32%, Great Soundtrack 15.5%, Open World 10%, Funny 8.8%, Exploration 7.8%

You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

Why similar: Open World 25.2%, Sandbox 21.4%, Cute 18.4%, Great Soundtrack 13.3%, Simulation 10.7%

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Cute 44.9%, Funny 13.3%, Colorful 13.2%, Adventure 9.5%, Fantasy 9.1%

Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.

Why similar: Cute 33.7%, Funny 17.3%, Great Soundtrack 16.3%, Adventure 8.1%, Family Friendly 7.3%

Fresh Start is a relaxing single player game, in which you embark on a mission to clean up the world and restore nature to its fresh and colorful shape. Watch as the world changes in front of your eyes as you help animals, solve puzzles and grow plants around you.

Why similar: First-Person 27.9%, Family Friendly 15.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Simulation 11%, FPS 10.1%

Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!

Why similar: Cute 34.4%, Sandbox 25.8%, Simulation 16.9%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, Casual 8%

An open-world action adventure game set in a simulated world in which humans never reached the top of the food chain.

Why similar: Open World 26.5%, Great Soundtrack 13.5%, Colorful 9.1%, Exploration 8.5%, Cute 8.5%

A group of amazing islands need your help! Horrid plastic waste has washed up and you need to sort it out with your trusty Trash Blaster! But look out for the Litterbugs. They love mess and they’re out to muck things up.

Why similar: Cute 24.5%, Adventure 17.3%, First-Person 13.8%, Family Friendly 10.4%, Colorful 10.1%

Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!

Why similar: Open World 26.9%, Cute 24.2%, Exploration 13.2%, Colorful 12.2%, Sandbox 11.2%

Embark on a lifetime of adventure in a beautiful world of creativity and intrigue. Raise a family, customise your farm, run a business, craft items, and battle some marvellously malevolent monsters.

Why similar: Open World 23.2%, Exploration 16.9%, Sandbox 16.8%, Management 13.8%, Funny 10.4%

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Open World 40.8%, Sandbox 20.2%, Exploration 16.1%, First-Person 9.7%, Adventure 5.6%

Embark on a cozy, open-world adventure with Hello Kitty and Friends. Befriend beloved characters as you explore and restore a mysterious island, solve ancient puzzles, cook delicious dishes, customize yourself and your cabins, and so much more.

Why similar: Open World 27.1%, Cute 21.9%, Exploration 14.8%, Colorful 10.4%, Adventure 7.5%

Become the most successful youtuber on the planet! Create videos, get subscribers, attend events, interact with your fans… and grow your channel. Live a youtuber’s life!

Why similar: Management 20.4%, Funny 14.6%, Family Friendly 12.5%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Adventure 9.7%

Bond with a baby falcon and go on an adventure. Falcon Age is a first-person, single-player action adventure where you’ll play as Ara in her fight to reclaim her cultural legacy in the lost art of falcon hunting against a force of automated colonizers.

Why similar: Cute 21.5%, Open World 21%, Exploration 15.1%, First-Person 12.4%, Colorful 10.5%

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Open World 39.6%, Sandbox 29.7%, Adventure 7.8%, Female Protagonist 7.1%, Simulation 6.9%

Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.

Why similar: Open World 31%, Sandbox 18%, Funny 17.9%, Simulation 14.3%, Cute 5.9%

Welcome to the beautiful and tropical Petit Island! Relive your grandpaw's youthful adventures by exploring the island and meeting all the unique islanders in this heartwarming open-world narrative exploration game. Preserve his memories before they fade away.

Why similar: Cute 20%, Open World 18.7%, Exploration 14.6%, Family Friendly 8.5%, Funny 8.1%

Most clouds float along in the sky, but these adorable fluffy clouds need to be taken care of in cloud daycare! Explore the world, collect delicious fruits, and cook tasty meals in this cute and wholesome farming game.

Why similar: Open World 20%, Cute 16.2%, Exploration 12.9%, First-Person 9%, Management 8.9%

Raise, nurture, and breed adorable slimes in a relaxing adventure where each slime is unique! Mix traits to create new slime companions and explore endless islands filled with secrets and surprises. Your perfect slime squad is waiting—how far can they go?

Why similar: Cute 81.2%, Casual 12.6%, Action 6.2%

Forage, explore, tame, and wrangle your adorable companions in this beautiful first-person, virtual-pet, adventure game!

Why similar: Cute 22%, Open World 15.4%, Exploration 15.1%, Colorful 11.5%, First-Person 10.7%

Dive into the dreamy world of Crearia in Onirism! Join Carol on a magical quest to find her lost plushie, Bunbun. Use quirky gadgets and wild weapons as you embark on a spellbinding journey through fantastical worlds, where you'll battle cunning and colorful foes in thrilling, high-intensity combat!

Why similar: Cute 55.2%, Funny 26.2%, Female Protagonist 5.1%, Adventure 4.7%, Great Soundtrack 2%

Explore a beautiful open world where you deliver mail, find artifacts, help people out, and fend off folks you’ve wronged.

Why similar: Open World 24.8%, Cute 16.5%, Exploration 16.3%, First-Person 10.4%, Funny 7.1%

Goat Simulator Remastered is the latest in goat simulation technology. Your favorite chaotic sandbox is back and more beautiful than ever, with updated graphics, every DLC, and more bugs that you can shake a goat at. WASD to rewrite history.

Why similar: Sandbox 18.3%, Open World 16.6%, Exploration 13.8%, Adventure 12.6%, Simulation 11.2%

Saddle up and build your own horse ranch! Raise foals, care for your horses and train them as you explore the countryside. Participate in cross country competitions and become your town's champion! Befriend the villagers who'll help you on your adventure at the Ranch of Rivershine!

Why similar: Cute 34%, Simulation 22.6%, Colorful 19.2%, Management 17.1%, Singleplayer 3.8%

A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.

Why similar: Simulation 21.7%, Sandbox 21.5%, First-Person 14.8%, Funny 12.7%, Management 10.8%

Little Witch in the Woods tells the story of Ellie, an apprentice witch. Explore the mystical forest, help the charming residents, and experience the daily life of the witch.

Why similar: Cute 27.6%, Open World 23%, Exploration 11.2%, Management 10.3%, Funny 8.3%

Control a herd of charming creatures called Trebhum and explore an unforgettable alien world filled with exotic lifeforms and surreal environments. Discover dozens of mutations to overcome puzzles, explore new biomes, and survive on a dangerous planet.

Why similar: Open World 28.9%, Cute 20.6%, Exploration 18%, Colorful 11.9%, Family Friendly 10%

Sphaera is a game about relaxation and exploration in a huge grass field filled with animals.

Why similar: Cute 14.4%, Adventure 12.5%, Great Soundtrack 11.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Exploration 10.3%

Go on a summer vacation to the Cloudy Valley archipelago! Swim, climb, and explore the different islands at your own pace. Discover treasures or enjoy a cozy and relaxing atmosphere by the waves...

Why similar: Cute 24%, Open World 21.1%, Exploration 18.3%, Adventure 9.3%, Colorful 8.7%

A befuddling mishap has made you COMPLETELY STRETCHY! Stretch, swing and stick around the delightfully odd and vibrant Grombi Isles in this eccentric and light-hearted 3D platformer.

Why similar: Open World 21.7%, Cute 18.6%, Exploration 13.9%, First-Person 12%, Colorful 10.6%