Succulents

Plants always find a way to survive even in the harshest conditions, since nature has a way to adapt to almost any circumstances. However, people can make a big difference, because we have learned how to tend to plants and how to provide them with exactly what they need in order to thrive. Thus, we can now grow huge amounts of vegetables in closed quarters, without even using any kind of dirt.

Succulents is a simple game in which your only purpose is to water a few plants and keep them alive in harsh underground conditions. Your only tool is a bucket that can leak drops of water in the desired spot, and you must keep doing that for as long as you can. Obviously, the more you water the plants, the more they grow, and they can die if you forget to tend to them.

Since the game was designed in a very short time for a jam, it’s only natural that it comes with a few bugs and glitches as well. Besides the occasional crashes, you may also stumble into a bug that prevents you from filling the bucket, although it acts like it’s always full. This is not always the case, but you may need to run the game a few times in order to start a proper, bug-free session.

As you may have probably guessed, the kind of plants that are able to grow in a dark and damp environment are not very pretty. Most of them look full of thorns and almost scary, but there are some that look like trees as well, or even a couple of flowers. They all grow the same, on the other hand, it doesn’t really matter in the end.

On top of it all, there are two different levels you can grow plants on, although they are virtually the same in every regard. The only problem is that you may not be able to take care of all of them if too many sprout at the same time. They can only reach a certain size before they stop growing, and it doesn’t take very long to get to that stage, even without the endless bucket glitch.

In the end, Succulents is quite an engaging experiment, especially if you are into gardening and you enjoy growing things. With a bit of effort and a lot more content, this could certainly become something a lot more refined in the future.