Plant Tycoon (2008)

Developer: Last Day of Work
Publisher: SEGA
Genres: Casual, Simulation
Rating: 4.7 of 5, 224 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 18 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A slow, methodical gardening sim where you carefully tend plants and experiment with breeding to discover new species at a relaxed pace.

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What players say

Players mostly revisit this for childhood nostalgia and find it holds up as a gentle idle sim. The real-time growing cycle lets you breed over 500 plant variations, but the pace is slow even on fast mode and rare bugs are hard to spawn.

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