Botanicula

Cute, fun, trippy, very original, but disappointingly short. I finished the game the first time through in about 3 hours max. (But then, it IS rate 7+ [which is surprising how often the characters get high or drunk! lol].) It's probably a game I'll come back to and play again in a year or two after my memory of it has faded and the surprises are new again.

Super adorable and fun. :)

Absynthe's review says pretty much everything there is to say. If you like other Amanita Design games, you'll love this one. If you don't know what I am talking about, just check out Samarost 1, which is free to play. Botanicula is like that, just even better :)

otanicula is a wonderous game. Not only is it an elegiac fable against the forces of entropy (or just plain ol' good vs evil/life vs death) but it's quirky and cute and utterly gorgeous to experience. The art work is beautifully rendered with a soft glow to it that makes the game feel almost dreamlike. The seeds you control as well as the myriad strange creatures you encounter all have distinct and unique personalities that burst through their designs. The audio is truly delightful, with sharp changes in sound as you enter new areas, and not to mention the amusing noises you will hear upon interacting in various ways. The gameplay itself is fluid and smooth, the game works very well as a point n click adventure and the animations integrate seamlessly with the movement of the mouse. The puzzles themselves are not particularly difficult but do show some measure of increasing difficulty and near the end require you to recall a fair amount of information from the interconnected areas in order to succesfully solve them. They do also allow for multiple puzzles to be worked upon at once, which gives the player some freedom to solve them in the order they choose, rather than be stuck on one and stop playing in frustration. Highly, highly recommend this game. Well worth the money despite it's shortness. Whether you purchase to play with a child or just to appease the own child within.

Enjoyable slow puzzle game with atmospheric music and graphics in a surreal and psychedelic universe. Would have given it a four but as someone else also has written there are some bugs during startup of the game where it crashed immediately on my ubuntu bionic. I have to try to start it ten-twenty times to get it to run. I managed to do this ever time I played so I could at least finish it.