World of Slime stuck on starting screen after loading bars (fix)
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September 23, 2026
After pressing "touch to start," the game shows a couple of loading bars and then freezes on the same screen indefinitely — several players reported waiting 5+ minutes with no change.
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This is a demo-era launch bug reported independently by well over a dozen players in a single Steam Discussions thread for the World of Slime PC demo, several confirming it happened to them too ("same here," "+1," "j'ai restarte plusieurs fois ca fonctionne"). No official TEAM42 post acknowledges this specific freeze, so it isn't a confirmed root cause, but the pattern in the thread is consistent: it's a client-side hang on first launch rather than a server outage, and it isn't universal — it didn't happen to everyone, and the fixes that worked for some players didn't work for all of them. If reinstalling or relaunching a few times gets you past it, that matches what several other players in the same thread reported.
Fix it, step by step
Verify integrity of game files in Steam
Verify your game files through Steam (right-click World of Slime > Properties > Installed Files > Verify integrity of game files). One player in the thread reported this fixed it immediately for them.
Uninstall, reinstall, then launch the game a few times
If that doesn't help, fully uninstall and reinstall, then launch the game a few times in a row. Multiple players in the same thread reported it working "on the 3rd launch" or after a couple of restarts when verifying files alone didn't help.
- NoteReported
If you get past the starting screen but then hit a login error, see World of Slime's Login Failed page — several players in the same thread reported reaching that error next.
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