From seed to a great tree! Survive the seasons, face crisis and mutate yourself into a tree able to achieve your final form! Grow flowers, mutate, adapt and evolve and finally bear fruits!
The game presents players with the goal of growing and sustaining a thriving tree over four in-game years. At the core of the experience is a carefully balanced resource management system, where players must strategically allocate water, energy, and capacity to place and upgrade different tree parts (roots, stems, and leaves).
Managing the tree's core resources is crucial to success. Water nourishes the tree and helps it survive the seasons, energy is required to place new tree parts, and capacity represents the maximum size the tree can reach. Players must find the right balance in distributing these resources, ensuring the tree's continued growth while preparing for seasonal challenges.
As players progress, they unlock a wide variety of mutations that dramatically alter the optimal strategies for growing the tree. These mutations can change how the different tree parts function, introduce new mechanics, or even shift the core resource priorities. This leads to highly dynamic and variable playstyles from one run to the next, encouraging experimentation and replayability.
Each in-game year is divided into four seasons, each presenting their own unique challenges. For example, winter brings the threat of energy depletion, requiring players to carefully plan their tree's structure and resource allocation to survive. Other seasonal events like storms, fires, and pests can also threaten the tree's health, forcing players to adapt and respond accordingly.
The game's environments, crisis events, and available mutations are all procedurally generated, ensuring that no two playthroughs are exactly alike. This, combined with the evolving playstyles, creates a highly replayable experience where players must constantly adapt their strategies to the unique challenges presented in each run.