Comparison

Tiny Terraces vs Slime Rancher

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tiny Terraces

An idle-farming game where tiny characters manage your garden. Plant crops, craft more workers, and decorate your terrace with earnings from your harvest.

Highlights
  • Idle farming gameplay
  • Automated crop management
  • Craft new tiny workers
  • Terrace decoration
  • Money generation from crops
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Tiny Terraces is an idle-farming game, where you can watch tiny guys do different tasks around the terrace. Grow Crops: Plant crops and watch as the tiny guys manage the garden plots by watering, weeding, and harvesting. Craft Tiny Guys: Use certain crops and tiny guy parts to craft more tiny guys to help manage the terrace. Decorate: Use money produced from crops to buy decorations to detail your terrace.

About

Slime Rancher

Explore a vibrant alien world, capture and tend to adorable slimes, and restore a neglected ranch. Use your vacpack to collect slimes, discover new species, and earn money to expand and decorate your estate. Enjoy different game modes at your own pace.

Highlights
  • Explore alien world
  • Capture and tend to slimes
  • Restore abandoned ranch
  • Craft and upgrade tools
  • Three game modes: Adventure, Casual, Rush
  • Revamped mobile interface
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Due to limited RAM, these devices are not compatible. You won’t have access to all the graphic settings and may experience some freezes or crashes: iPhone Xr, iPhone SE Gen 2 (2020), iPad Mini Gen 5, iPad Air Gen 3, iPad Gen 8, iPad Gen 9. Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range,’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes. [Explore a vibrant alien world, capture and tend to adorable slimes, and get a once-abandoned ranch back on track!] *** FEATURES *** - Play as a curious and adventurous woman trying to get her newly acquired slime ranch back on track. - Use your trusty vacpack to collect adorable slimes in the wild. Each type has its own likes, dislikes, and sometimes even special needs that must be met to take care of them properly! - Discover new hybrid species! - Explore the vast, colorful nature of the Far, Far Range. Find slimes and gather resources! - Roam around the sands of the Dry Reef, discover the wild flora of the Moss Blanket, and wonder at the shining crystals of the Indigo Quarry while uncovering hidden treasures! - Earn money through daily requests or the market exchange to expand your ranch: decorate your estate, contain your slimes with corrals, grow crops and build coops to feed them. - Earn money through daily requests on the Range Exchange or selling plorts on the Plort Market. Then decorate your ranch house, expand the corrals for your slimes, and feed them by growing gardens and building coops! - Craft and upgrade your vacpack and tools for faster and better ranching! - Follow Bea’s journey at your own pace with 3 different game modes! Adventure Mode lets you experience the trials and tribulations of ranching life as it really is. But you can also play Casual Mode for a cozier experience, or challenge yourself to succeed faster with Rush Mode! CAREFULLY REDESIGNED FOR MOBILE - Revamped interface – exclusive mobile UI with complete touch control - Game Center achievements - Cloud Saves – share your progress between iOS devices. - Compatible only with PS4, PS5, and Xbox controllers - iPhone 17 Optimization (including Pro Max)

Screenshots

Tiny Terraces4 screens
Slime Rancher4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Slime Rancher at 4.8 against Tiny Terraces's 4.1. Slime Rancher also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 65%) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 187). Tiny Terraces's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $8.99) and chart position (#10 vs #47). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tiny Terraces costs $1.99 and Slime Rancher $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Slime Rancher holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slime Rancher has 1.7K ratings behind it against 187, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Tiny Terraces's written reviews are positive against 81% of Slime Rancher's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Terraces ships an update every 8 days, Slime Rancher every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Tiny Terraces versus Slime Rancher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny TerracesSlime Rancher
Price$1.99 — better$8.99
Rating4.1 (187 ratings)4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews80.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1871.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#10 — better#47
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size198 MB1019 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperJaxon Gallegos GarciaPlaydigious

Customer experience

Tiny Terraces

All ratings180 ratings
Positive73.3%
Neutral8.9%
Negative17.8%
Written reviews167 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral13.2%
Negative22.2%

Slime Rancher

All ratings1,478 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral1.6%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews202 reviews
Positive80.7%
Neutral8.4%
Negative10.9%

Bugs and requests

Tiny Terraces

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Cloning building bug
  • Sound issues
  • Destroy tool not working

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add manual save option
  • Improve landscape mode compatibility
  • Streamline touch controls and gestures

Slime Rancher

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tiny Terraces

No in-app purchases

None

Slime Rancher

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tiny Terraces free?
Tiny Terraces costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Slime Rancher free?
Slime Rancher costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tiny Terraces or Slime Rancher?
Slime Rancher is rated higher. Tiny Terraces averages 4.1 out of 5 from 187 ratings, while Slime Rancher averages 4.8 from 1.7K ratings.
Do Tiny Terraces or Slime Rancher have ads?
Neither Tiny Terraces nor Slime Rancher shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Terraces or Slime Rancher?
Tiny Terraces ships an update every 8 days, and Slime Rancher every 10 days. Most recently, Tiny Terraces was updated on October 21, 2026 and Slime Rancher on October 23, 2026.
Which is more popular, Tiny Terraces or Slime Rancher?
Tiny Terraces currently peaks at #10 in the App Store charts, and Slime Rancher at #47. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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