Plants Reviews

A short game, not much too it but good for what it is

Chill, tiny, very short game. Would have upvoted if it hadn't tried to connect to the Internet repeatedly for no reason...

This isn't a game, it's an art exhibition that's been dumped on Steam, presumably because the local art galleries took out a restraining order on the "artists" who had no other choice but to pay Valve $100 to dump this on Steam. The idea of this "art experience" is to "relax" by growing a plant in what looks like a "snake" ripoff from Construct 2 (don't laugh, they used Construct 2 for this, even if this was a game it would disqualify it), except with all the gameplay removed. So you just guide a plant to grow and that's all. It's not even a well rendered or realistic looking plant... it's a MS-Paint reject. High school kids come up with better stuff. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop. There's no loop here, no true interactive feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played". The poor quality of this software is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak user number was only 2 users. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only user activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 real games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality software is to be expected. So, should you buy this software? Plants is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the software, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free, actual games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

This game is the best business decision of my life. Please have my children.

Plants is a relaxing game where you grow and collect water to stay alive, it is pretty relaxing but pretty boring, only reason to get is for the reason of relaxing. (which makes total sense.)

Plants is a relaxing game in which you play as a plant slowly growing upwards towards the sky. The game has two modes, Regular and Colour. In Regular, you're given a health bar which must be refilled by collecting water that occasionally appears. Colour mode is almost identical, however there's no need for water as you have an unlimited amount of health. While it seems like an enjoyable game, due to the lack of content, after the first two or three minutes you've already seen everything the game has to offer. Another issue I have is that there's a broken achievement (Calm Night) That the developer has been aware of since 2020 but has still yet to fix it three years later, so it's highly likely this bare-bones game won't be updated and is in fact complete.

Quite a relaxing experience. Nice music, simple visuals and very simple gameplay. I only have 3 complaints(they are at most simple annoyances about the game, and that is that: 1. There is no real in-game quit button(in fullscreen mode), 2. you can't open the little steam window to look at achievments while in-gameand 3. The water that refills your energy does spawn at the bottom od the screen when you've already passed that point a bit earlier, and an added thing that goes hand in hand with no. 3 is that the flower has to be pretty close to the top of the screen for it to move upwards. As I said earlier though those are quite minor complaints and the rest of the game makes up for it. Most certainly worth the money(1,49€, as you probably can see). Edit: The thing about not having the ability to exit the game, I know you can close the window if you have it in windowed mode but if you don't it doesn't exit windowed mode when you disable it in the settings.