Planned Release Date: Q4 2025

About This Game

GrowBud - your bud-growing buddy that keeps you company while you work. Collect and master authentic strains, progress through grow clubs, and customise your cultivation experience with multiple layers of short to long-term depth and progression, keeping you satisfied.

Strain Discovery & Mastery

Discover 50+ authentic cannabis strains with unique growing requirements. Level up individual strains, perform research and learn about each strain's characteristics to grow the perfect 6-star bud.

Club Progression

Progress through The Grow Club, led by Sage, to become a master grower (knowledge & craft) and The Bud Club, with Blaze, to become a master designer (efficiency & yield). Complete challenges from both paths simultaneously to unlock exclusive strains, genetics and equipment.

Gene Expressions

Use strategic genetic modifiers to alter strain characteristics, enhance growth, and unlock different playstyles - full automation for hands-off growing, productivity bonuses for focused work, or active management for detailed control. Uncover mystery expressions that significantly reshape the growing experience.

Active Minigames

Skill-based growing minigames provide bonus rewards and much-needed dopamine hits to keep you going during your day.

Grow House Customisation

Personalise your growing spaces with equipment and decorative upgrades. Express your style while optimising your cultivation setup.

Desktop Companion Features

Cozily sits on the side of your screen while you work on other tasks. Multi-monitor support, always-on-top toggle, and left or right anchoring let you grow where it's most comfortable.

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Mature Content

Simulates cannabis cultivation for educational purposes. Designed for adult audiences.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Used as a general assistant during development for debugging purposes, boilerplate code structures, design validation & testing, balance analysis, data ingestion, editor tools.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

GrowBud is a cannabis cultivation simulation designed for adult audiences. Players grow virtual cannabis plants while learning about authentic strain genetics, growing techniques, and plant biology. The game presents cannabis cultivation from an educational and horticultural perspective.

The game includes:
- Simulation of cannabis plant cultivation from seed to harvest
- Educational information about real cannabis strain characteristics
- References to therapeutic applications of CBD strains within gameplay challenges
- Economic simulation involving the sale of harvested virtual crops

No explicit drug use is depicted or encouraged. The game focuses on the agricultural and scientific aspects of plant cultivation rather than consumption. All content is presented within an educational simulation framework appropriate for adult audiences interested in horticulture and plant biology.