Buy Grow Home

Rating: 9/10

Great little game that grows on you while playing. The robot is adorable and moves awesome. Controls are good but needs a bit getting used to, but overall great concept and execution.

I'm not sure why I bought it, to be honest.

Grow Home isn't your average game... but then again, neither was Undertale.

When I dropped in as B.U.D. , I didn't know what to expect. Adventure game instincts kicked in and I I just ran around climbing on random objects, pulling these crystals out of the ground, collecting stuff. Completionist urges overwhelmed me easily. I had to go touch everything, no stone unturned. After a good half-hour or so, I took a breather, got a bottle of water and then I sat there. I looked around, and just took the whole game in.

Growing home is therapeutic. One ride after the other, zipping around in the air with flowers, jumping on newly sprouted leaves that send you soaring into the air... you are the cause of this beautiful world coming to life. The game no longer felt like a compulsion to collect everything.

I recommend this game to everyone, of all ages.
So do yourself a favor, and Grow Home.

Really cute hidden gem, definitely worth the price if you want a few hours of relaxing platforming with some beautiful scenery. On top of all that the game doesn't have Uplay!

Pretty and relaxing. 10/10

Best indie game i have ever played.

Buy it.

A cute little game for completionists.
Neat artstyle, and sound effects.
It only took me 10 hours to get the climby, climby robot achievement :/

Unique, fresh and relaxing game.

All you need to have a good time !

+++

NB : Amazing climbing, floating and gliding sensations !

i love this game. It is a bit of a chore in the first 20mins or so but once you get high into the sky it gets so fun sailing around with flowers and discovering new creatures.

(I got this game from someone in my Steam friendlist)

Grow Home is a 3rd person physics based climbing game. In the game you play as a robot who got dropped off by a spaceship to an island with a special plant. The goal is to grow the plant so that it can reach its peal state, where the flower opens. What brings special material needed for the spaceship. The game reminded me of the simplicity of FEZ, with just platforming and no real enemies, and the relaxation of De Blob 2.

The game itself is pretty simplistic in every way. The spaceship and the character even look so simplistic, that I thought in the beginning that anyone could have just made that with a 3D-editor. After a while though I saw the beauty of it, because of how it suited the game along with the colorful world.

The gameplay itself is made up of two things. The first part is mostly about climbing, which you do with the left and right hand of the character. There is a pointer on the object, which shows where you can grab with your hand. You then hold the object by holding the left or right trigger / mouse button. Thanks to the silly physics the climbing can feel clunky. In the beginning of the game it showed that it can be played with a controller. I played it with mouse and keyboard and have to say it is really no disadvantage. As you go further in the game you also explore and can unlock new things that can make your traveling easier and more fun. For instance a leaf that you can use to paraglide. Thanks to the clunky physics of the main character it comes over really silly, what makes it so funny.

The second part of the gameplay is the growing of the plant. You do this by going to the taps of the plant and grow and put them in flying ground, which gives energy to the plant to grow. This part is pretty casual friendly, because the tap that you grow will also get new taps directly. So if you didn't reach the destination you can still climb back to one of the new taps which you grow to the place. Several times though I experienced that controlling the taps was pretty difficult, because it wanted to steer its own way.

Still it can happen that you fall down. This sometimes can be a really large distance. That is why in the game you have several portals you can activate. This is really handy because if you fall all the way down you can use a portal to go all the way back up again to the other portal that you activated.

The music and environment sound is really in the background. Which gives more of that nature feeling and makes it not forced. The silly robotic sound effects also adds to the funny feeling of the game.

The narrative is mostly done with just text messages that pop up on your screen. Which are mostly silly robotic messages from the spaceship, who are happy with your progress.

All the things together in this game makes it a really joyful silly game. At the end it's fun to look back to how you have grown the plant and its branches on this island. It maybe only took me around 100 minutes to complete, what is pretty short. I guess for people who are going to play it I would recommend to explore a lot more and try to get all the collectibles and/or achievements, because that really adds to the fun and playtime. I am still satisfied with the fun time I got for playing the game.

This game is so freaking cute. Its quite relaxing, and its pretty cool to explore what is presented to you :3

9/10 would buy the sequel xP