Of course, if an announcement is made, we’ll be sure to update this post and let you know. While there is some hope that the team could bring multiplayer to Slime Rancher should support from fans for the game remain positive, it’s not looking promising for now. Slime Rancher is a very unconventional game and multiplayer support would require a very creative solution. And it is worth restating that with all of the physics in Slime Rancher it’s a very hard problem. So in short, multiplayer is not ruled out, but we can’t promise it either. SRMP is a mod for Slime Rancher 1 that adds local and remote coop realtime multiplayer to the game. However, anything is possible in the future if we continue to see the same level of wonderful support from players as we do now. So we decided to focus on solid single player experience.įor this reason we currently have no plans for multiplayer. And the hundreds of physics-enabled slimes bouncing around on screen needing to be in sync across two or more clients is a fantastically difficult problem to solve. Multiplayer is inherently more complicated and time-consuming to develop. One of those decisions was multiplayer vs singleplayer.
Most of Slime Rancher’s development was done by two people (we’re four now, thanks to your support!) so a lot of decisions were made early on to allow two developers to make a game in a realistic timeframe. This mod will allow you play Slime Rancher in online co-op up to 8+ players. Since we’re seeing a lot of requests for a multiplayer feature from all our new (and awesome/handsome/beautiful) players, we thought it would be a good idea to address it.