Greenhearth Necromancer

This game is slow-paced ans designed to semi actively played. You'll progress faster and better while leaving your plants away, maybe dying, and taking care of them when you're back, than by constantly picking up their every needs. Also the open-mindedness is very, very appreciated. And I love Gulshan.

Very chill game. the lo fi music is great to jam to while studying to working. Good game to help calm down after a hectic game.

Greenhearth Necromancer is a gentle game about grief and death, but also a warm game about community, friendship and a sense of belonging. All these concepts are seamlessly weaved into a semi-idle gameplay, which combines gardening and somewhat randomized story events. I did cry, when playing this game and it gave me a lot to think about. This game also helped me to focus on things and made mundane tasks a bit more fun and rewarding. Definitely a game I have spent the most hours on and also one of my favourite ones of this year. Originally I got interested of this game, because it has the same writer as one of my favourite games of all time “I was a teenage exocolonist”, but this game became its own thing I liked (loved even) as a whole. In Greenhearth Necromancer you play as Echo, who just graduated from a school of necromancy as a bona-fide necromancer. They return to their grandmother’s, Rose’s old apartment after her passing. Echo and Rose got estranged before Rose died, because Echo felt that Rose, as a talented greenwitch couldn’t accept them as a necromancer. Echo feels out of place in an empty apartment that holds so many memories aside from Rose’s (now dead) garden. They…

so going into this, i thought it was going to be a bit more involved by going what was shown in the trailer. i am a big fan of lore (#LoreWh0re) & this definitely has that. there is a LOT of reading in the very beginning of the game; i'll say a solid hour (this includes doing in game chores) right off the jump. HOWEVER, the story is VERY cute & it does have some personal ties to myself growing up. other than that, its a very cute idler. if you like plants & magic, you'll like this.

ohhhh this game is squeezing my heart in the best way. the art is beautiful, the story is beautiful, Compostifer is adorable. I cannot wait to continue playing and get further into this story and these relationships

Great cozy game. The rhythm of the "focus mode" (the idle mechanic) is ideal for doing 15 minutes of housework, then returning to the game, having some "numbers go up" clicks, and then returning to housework. This really helps my ADHD. I now look forward to evenings that consist of "Greenhearth and Chores". The story is nice. It's not flashy, it's not super dramatic, but it does have me hooked. The only negative I can think of: The non-story card actions quickly get repetitive. I mostly skim or skip them after having seen the same text for the 10th time. But you can always just discard them to gain some resources, so you're not forced to read them.