![]() ![]() The PC version of the game was played for this review of Growbot. This review is based on a copy of the game provided by the publisher. Publisher: Application Systems Heidelberg It’s equal parts adorable and bizarre, and it’s got heart enough to power a space station. If you’re on the lookout for whimsical, magical games that remind of you of Amanita Design classics, Growbot is exactly what you want. Sure, a few puzzles were on the more tedious side, but not enough to be roadblocks. I finished my playthrough in 3 hours, satisfied with the peculiar experience of mixing colours and talking to robots tending to plant-based space station. The game leans on the easier side as far as puzzles go, and it isn’t very long either. With all the colorful flowers that adorn the game throughout, I can say without hesitation that if there was ever a game I wish I could smell, it would be Growbot. Growbot is beautiful not just in its kind spirit, but also in the art that fuses natural elements like lush greenery with more industrial gears and pipes. You will perform a fire ritual to heat up a cup of tea, and you will delve into a mind to break it out of a downwards spiral. You’ll be rotating a maze to free water dragons, and operating valves to take tiny gnome-like beings to a birthday party. In the same theme as the flower arranger, the game’s puzzles usually involve operating bizarre machinery reminiscent of a children’s storybook. Thankfully, the game offers a Hint system for the flower arranger that shows you which flower is required by text. You will be collecting musical notes from flowers in the game, which you must then arrange into melodies of six.Īs someone who is practically tone-deaf, I was dreading the flower arranger once I learned what it was going to involve. Far from being a sugar overdose, it’s got just the right level of depth to be a well-balanced chocolate instead.Īpart from the usual point-and-click business of collecting objects and using them on each other, you will also be operating a ‘flower arranger’: one of the game’s biopunk elements. Despite the lou and unsettling blackouts that the game’s antagonist imposes on you every now and then, the game never delves into dark themes. The storytelling gets surprisingly involved, even bringing in topics of politics and revenge, but it’s all handled with heart and compassion. Although Growbot does feature dialogue, it certainly carries on in the utterly whimsical ‘wait, what’ tradition of Samorost or Botanicula. Perhaps the only way to describe the surreal world of Growbot is to call it ‘Amanita-esque’. I could tell you that she is trying to fix a space station, but you need to understand that this space station’s reactor is a fluffy alien that runs on literal space jam. It’s such a unique and heart-warming experience, one that must be lived rather than described with words. I could tell you that the protagonist, Nara, is a ‘growbot’ – but you need to see the actual character with her brain that hosts a pool of water with lily pads. Growbot Artbook 1.99 3.98 Add all DLC to Cart Rock Paper Shotgun 'Growbot is an incredible game that deserves to be experienced by everyone, regardless of age or gender. Did we like it rightaway or did it grow on us? Here’s what we think.ĭescribing Growbot’s plot doesn’t do justice to the act of actually experiencing it happen in front of you.
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