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The overall aesthetic includes a somewhat granulated effect and is reminiscent of old cartoons and Amanita Games’ titles indeed Machinarium is cited as a source of inspiration on the Growbot’s Steam Store page. The fantastical 2D art style is made up of hand-drawn illustrations in muted colours with pops of vibrancy from brother shades. The soundtrack ranges from ethereal and relaxing to upbeat and even becoming quite dramatic in places. Growbot features gentle twinkling music made up of chimes and soft vocals, it is magical but with a melancholy undertone. This is a fun addition and provides an aspect of originality to the mechanics. By collecting these players can solve sound-based puzzles and use a flower arranger to correctly place the notes to create a shield key. However, different flowers have different musical notes associated with them. Throughout the game players encounter shield obstacles, often preventing access to required items or areas. The inventory style puzzling is interspersed with sound-based puzzles that tie into the game’s storyline a bit more directly. As such, the game features classic inventory-based puzzles, while these can be a little predictable Growbot does it well and in moderation. Growbot utilises simple mouse-only controls requiring players to click to move, interact or explore the inventory that is divided into keepable and consumable items, the latter of which can be combined with each other.

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Growbot features a great storyline full of adorable creatures, eclectic characters and scenes that would be right at home in a sci-fi fairytale. The protagonist Nara is training to be a captain on one of the six space stations when Chrissy, the quasi-crystal-powered growbot begins to attack! Nara must work out why Chrissy is attacking and save the station and Kew!ĭelivered through the gameplay and dialogue as well as readable documents the narrative is a little obscure but engaging and does a good job of tying the gameplay into the story and providing a level of connection for a more well-rounded experience. Shortly after a tear in space caused cosmic sea to pour out around Kew, the Geologists found a way to resurrect the rest of the growbots with bio-engineered flowers and set them to work in six space stations protecting Kew. Powerful but unstable, the growbot fled after an unfortunate incident. An alien species named geologists discovered them and brought one back to life with a quasi-crystal.

The company abandoned the asteroid and eventually all communication with the growbots was lost. The titular growbots began as mascots for a mining company that sent 30 to a new asteroid called Kew to be remotely tracked and played with. And somehow this adventure is all about powering up a space station forcefield that runs on flowers.This game is being reviewed as part of the Indie Game Collective (IGC) showcase. There are clockwork bees, meditating cats, a psychic octopus who thinks it's a squid, and a talking pink puffball I carry around in my head.

There's a big friendly Yeti (technically not a Yeti but it's Yeti-like) who loves jam and tea and somehow has an entire galaxy in its belly. There are cute little elf-like sprites you can carry around (at one point I crammed one into a tiny little truck so it would scoop up space berries). I'm about 3.5 hours into Growbot, and while the experience is extremely charming and the world it takes place in is beautiful and fascinating, I still have very little idea what's actually going on. The other space robots are disabled so you start puttering around, collecting items, solving puzzles, and try to untangle the threat before the space station is destroyed. In Growbot you're a new arrival on a biomechanical space station, but the moment you arrive you find the place under siege from a mysterious enemy.

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