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In a time where every video game under the sun seems to be getting adapted into a film or TV show, Story Kitchen has acquired the rights to makeSlime Rancherinto a movie.
The production company recently partnered with game developer Monomi Park to bring the colourful slime vacuuming series to a new medium.
As reported byDeadline, the two companies are looking to continue the story of Beatrix LeBeau on the big screen, however no studios appear to be attached to the project at this time.
In addition to Slime Rancher, Story Kitchen also has a range of other video game adaptations in the pipeline, with the production banner also linked toAmazon’s Toejam and Earl movieand aVampire Survivor’s TV show.
As for the Slime Rancher games, Eurogamer contributor Edwin Evans-Thirlwell called theoriginal releasethe “poop-farming sim you didn’t know you needed”.
“I love a game that is both as sweet as apple pie and as dark as pitch, and Monomi Park’s bubbly sci-fi farming sim Slime Rancher is very much one of those,” he wrote, before describing it as a “sort of first-personHarvest Moonknock-off with a splash of Dragon Quest”.
Meanwhile, our Christian Donlan described its sequel, which was released last year, as both “glorious” and “ghastly”.
“What I love about this game is that it’s clearly born of ambivalence, of ideas that could only ever get slightly away from everyone and refuse to settle down.
This game isn’t solvable, I reckon, and in 2022 that’s about the highest compliment I can offer,“he wrote back in October.
