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About This Game

GrowBud - your desktop cannabis cultivation companion that rewards productivity instead of stealing it. Grow 20+ authentic strains as a configurable sidebar, master genetics, navigate encounters, play minigames, and build your ultimate collection - all while actually getting your work done.

The Core Gameplay

Discover 20+ cannabis strains with stylised visual personalities and unique growing requirements. Your plants grow faster when you're focused in other applications - working, studying, gaming, whatever. GrowBud rewards real productivity by accelerating growth when you're being productive elsewhere.

Plants progress through complete cycles - vegetative, pre-flowering, flowering, harvest, and recovery. Level up individual strains through five mastery levels to unlock genetic research and produce perfect 6-star buds worthy of Golden Status.

Progression Systems

Fulfil orders for the local dispensary, premium buyers, and rush requests to earn gold, unlock strains, and gain rewards.

Complete challenges across two progression systems: The Grow Club (led by Sage) to master quality and craft, and The Bud Club (with Blaze) to dominate efficiency and yield. Progress simultaneously through both paths to unlock more content.

Level 3 club challenges will arrive in a free content update in the coming weeks - we prioritised polishing the core experience for launch. Levels 1-2 in each club are fully featured and ready to play today.

Gene Expressions & Upgrades

Unlock gene expressions to customise strain characteristics and reshape how you play. Gene expressions enhance traits and unlock different playstyles.

Purchase care buffs from the Vending Machine to temporarily boost plant health, growth speed, or other attributes. Find hidden items scattered throughout your experience that unlock special bonuses.

Activities & Minigames

Navigate stage transition encounters featuring games of chance - coin toss, dice roll, cup shuffle, rock-paper-scissors. Every growth stage has a chance to present random care events that can help or hinder your harvest. The deeper you progress, the stranger things get.

Unlock and play the club minigames: spin the Wheel of Fortune for mysterious prizes, test your luck at Blackjack, or master the Crane Game to unlock customisation options.

Collection & Customization

Gotta grow 'em all! Discover, grow, and master all 20+ strains, earning Golden Status on each. Display your mastered collection in beautiful jar arrangements - each strain showcased on your shelf as a trophy of cultivation excellence.

Start with two sheds and expand to managing multiple grow houses simultaneously. Customise each space with themes and decorations. 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 - or as a full screen experience. Features multi-monitor support, always-on-top mode, and flexible positioning. Transform unused screen space into a scrolling stack of grow houses that progress whilst you focus on other tasks.

Is This Your Kind of Game?

GrowBud sits alongside your workday with zero pressure. Your plants don't suffer if you leave them - you just pick up where you were when you're ready. Check in for a minute or two to advance stages and adjust parameters, then get back to work. As you progress and unlock speed boosts, check-ins happen more frequently, but you're always in control of when you engage.

The core loop is brief interactions with individual plants - stage transitions, environmental adjustments, and optional encounter minigames. Want more engagement? The clubhouse offers games, challenges to strategise around, orders to fulfill, and grow houses to customise. Want less? Just tend your plants and ignore the extras.

Perfect for remote workers and students who want something satisfying running alongside their day. You choose your depth of engagement.

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Post-Launch Support

We're committed to improving GrowBud beyond launch. A free content update arrives in the coming weeks featuring Level 3 club challenges, additional localization support (French, Japanese, German, Dutch, Spanish LATAM), more stage transition events, and general polish improvements.

Current Languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

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Mature Content

Simulates cannabis cultivation for educational and entertainment purposes. Designed for adult audiences. We're treating cannabis strains like the pokémon of the plant world - genuinely complex genetics worth exploring. The game doesn't suggest smoking or getting high, and none of the theming leans on cannabis culture tropes. It's a fantasy game like any other - just happens to be about plants.

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.