Mendel

its really hard to multiply my new plants without making new species that i dont want or looks exactly the same, other, then that, the game is perfect

It was nice to combine plants, distribute the ones you like and see your island slowly get populated. One can select & combine plants that are higher to give higher offspring as well. And other traits can be selected for as well, such as amount of branching, type & color of foliage, trunk diameter and such. Graphics are not amazing, but adequate for the purpose, and the wind blowing through the higher plants makes them sway prettily. There is not much more to the game. Plants do not get selected based on the environment, and they hardly (if ever) multiply themselves (apart from the occasional randomized 'naturally occurring' combinations). So there is no selection based on the Mendelian traits. So you kinda have a static island, where most of the changes will be by your own hand. I do not really have a problem with this, I just want to make clear that the game itself is pretty simplsitic. Combinations can be made between seemingly wildly unrelated plants, which also is a bit of a simplification in itself. But if you find a plant species that you particularly like, you can manually collect seeds (or cuttings or whatever) from them, and combine & plant them to get more plants. Wh…

I love this. It feels like a spiritual successor to this rinky dink flash game about cross-breeding flowers I remember liking a lot on addictinggames. It asks very little and it is exceedingly simple, but I think it would appeal to anyone who likes these sorts of quiet, small plant sims like I do.

This is by far the most buggy game in my library,yet somehow worth every moment of it. This game makes the stress melt out of me, i love planning my genetic projects, aiming for certain shapes, colors, sizes, etc. Some ideas for the developer based on my 100+hrs playing: fix the UI so it doesn't leave blurs or arrows in the screen after closing them, UI Fix: add the petals/leaves/flowers/bulbs to be visible in the name index, fix the flower picking so you dont reach into the ground or face the wrong direction when picking, add in-game or steam achievements to make players want to push the boundaries of genetic splicing, the ability to earn speed upgrades, alternate or randomly generated terrain options, color sliders for the sky / built in shader options, a sky view / zoom out option to see the whole planet at once, multiple save file options.

Honestly feel this is an underrated gem. Not much but it's super chill. I actually find this relaxing! I still need to study the science side of this, which I have read about and it's super neat to get genetics into a game. Also colours go brrr...

Love breeding flowers! Miss all the old games i used to play where you bred flowers, so i'm very glad this exists.