Grow Home

I love the concept of this game. I am a goofy robot that grows a giant plant. Mindless. It's really a simple and relaxing idea, just a downtime couch game.

Unfortunately it was also a bit clunky.

You'd have to climb hand over hand everywhere which was mechanical at best. I'm growing a plant 2000m in the air via inserting it in magic energy crystals, but suspension of disbelief of a robot walking up the plant is too much?

They also wanted you to free look, which means it was easy to get turned around and disoriented. That made it really easy to fall off stuff. They had checkpoint teleporters, but it's still a few minutes progress to just climb to where you were. Having a safety harness of some sort would have been great.

The joy of the game isn't the skill of staying on the plant. It just got in the way of the core value of the game.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed myself.