Can I Run Slime Rancher?
Slime Rancher is an action adventure game from Monomi Park, released in 2025. Monomi Park both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Over 42 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Completionists have 27 achievements to work through. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing. As a new title, the figures below were written against parts you can still buy. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2500K / AMD FX-6300 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / AMD RX 5700 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a gentle, brightly drawn world. Play is structured around one continuous open world. There are 13 official screenshots to judge the look from. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Slime Rancher has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. It is played from a first person view.
Why Slime Rancher is demanding
Demand in Slime Rancher is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 / AMD RX 5700 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Disk footprint is light, near 8 GB. At only 2 GB of VRAM, memory capacity is not what limits Slime Rancher. The chip itself is. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Slime Rancher at the floor and Slime Rancher at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Slime Rancher?
Slime Rancher is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB, 8 GB RAM, about 8 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 1.1x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.62x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.27x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Slime Rancher's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Can my PC run Slime Rancher?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Slime Rancher?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K / AMD FX-6300; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
How much storage does Slime Rancher need?
Slime Rancher needs about 8 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Slime Rancher?
The RTX 3060 runs Slime Rancher comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Slime Rancher?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Slime Rancher is the GPU.