Sproots is a colony survivial game where you control small Pikmin like creatures in a Sims-esque manner Each 'sproot' is in constant need of food and water. Their camp is always located near a 'life plant' where they gather water, but you'll have to help them out getting food! Eventually every sproot will die of age (around 60), so be sure to let them breed new eggs on their nest! During their lifetime they can study objects, learn skills, craft structures and items, and teach each other about their findings!
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I love a lot of what this game does. It's a cute little builder/manager survival game that lets you explore the game's systems in a very organic way, and there seems to be a good amount of game to explore. I particularly like that you have to manage the distribution of knowledge between your sproots, since sproots age and die and crafting recipes are unlocked for each sproot individually (it looks like there's a way for one sproot to teach another sproot, too.)
It can get a little hard to manage everything after a while, as there aren't any automation features. This could still work, but I don't think you can queue orders and giving orders often feels clunky/unresponsive so it ends up feeling rough. I also had a cascading failure from the fleas stripping all my bushes at once and I hadn't seen one do that before so that felt a little brutal! Half of my sproots starved :(
The main thing holding it back for me is that the game crashes! It crashed after about 80 minutes and it lost my progress. I would love a more user-friendly version of this game some day. Edit: with a minimap!
It can get a little hard to manage everything after a while, as there aren't any automation features. This could still work, but I don't think you can queue orders and giving orders often feels clunky/unresponsive so it ends up feeling rough. I also had a cascading failure from the fleas stripping all my bushes at once and I hadn't seen one do that before so that felt a little brutal! Half of my sproots starved :(
The main thing holding it back for me is that the game crashes! It crashed after about 80 minutes and it lost my progress. I would love a more user-friendly version of this game some day. Edit: with a minimap!