Tiny Terraces vs Slime Rancher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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)
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Tiny Terraces | Slime Rancher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $8.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (187 ratings) | 4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 80.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 187 | 1.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #10 — better | #47 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 198 MB | 1019 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jaxon Gallegos Garcia | Playdigious |
Customer experience
Tiny Terraces
Slime Rancher
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
Tiny Terraces
No in-app purchases
Slime Rancher
No in-app purchases
Questions
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