About This Game

GrowBud - your bud-growing buddy that keeps you company whilst you work or play. Cultivate 20+ cannabis strains as a configurable desktop sidebar, master their genetics through dual club progression, and build your ultimate strain collection.

Strain Discovery & Mastery

Discover 20+ cannabis strains, each with unique growing requirements. Plants progress through perpetual cycles - vegetative, pre-flowering, flowering, harvest, and recovery - with each cycle presenting new challenges. Level up individual strains through five mastery levels to unlock genetic research and produce perfect 6-star buds.

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. Progress through three levels in each club - six levels total - to become a master cultivator.

Orders

Grow your buds and complete orders for the local dispensary, premium buyers, and rush orders to earn gold, unlock new strains, and gain exclusive rewards.

Gene Expressions

Use strategic genetic modifiers to customise strain characteristics, enhance traits, 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.

Stage Transitions & Minigames

Navigate growing challenges through stage transition events featuring games of chance - coin toss, dice roll, cup shuffle, rock-paper-scissors, and more. The deeper you progress, the more unexpected things start happening. Unlock the Wheel of Fortune and Blackjack Table at higher club levels, or test your skills at the Bud Club Crane Game to win exclusive customisation options.

Collection

Gotta grow 'em all! Discover, grow, and master all 20+ strains, earning the coveted Golden Status. Gaze upon your collection in beautiful jar displays in the strain library.

Grow House Customisation

Upgrade your growing spaces with better lighting, equipment, themes, and decorations. Advanced gear helps tackle the challenges of higher-level strains and improves your overall efficiency through automation. Seasonal holiday content adds festive flair throughout the year.

Desktop Companion Features

Sits as a configurable sidebar - anchored to the left or right of any screen and adjustable up to half your display width. Features multi-monitor support, always-on-top mode, and flexible positioning. Transform unused screen space into a scrolling stack of grow houses that progress autonomously whilst you focus on other tasks.

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Mature Content

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

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.