groze: How "finished" is Slime Rancher? I saw a stream on twitch just the other day (up-to-date indev GOG version), and it seemed like they still had *a lot* of planned features and additions which are just impossible to implement in a matter of days. The game looks great and seems to be a joy to play, but why would the devs consider it finished and ready for release, when it's clearly lacking so many things, yet? It doesn't look like the utter mess that is Man O' War: Corsair, fortunately, but the core thought behind its release seems to be the same: just release it and keep releasing stuff post-release. Not a big deal, I guess, games have always gotten patches and expansions after release, as much as people like to think it's a recent practice, but it's not exactly the same thing when you try to access an area of the map in Slime Rancher and it's closed by an energy field because that place is a "post-release addition". Might as well have kept it in-dev for a few more months and release it in its entirety later; what's the purpose of Early Access/In Development if you're going to release your game without all of its planned features, anyway?

Like I said: unlike Man O' War: Corsair (seriously, GOG, you shouldn't even be selling that one in its current state), Slime Rancher *is* very much playable -- and enjoyable, at that --, but with the amount of planned stuff it's still lacking, I just wonder how ready for release it actually was.