Greenhearth Necromancer

Chill, friendly game. Laid-back if you want, but with some depth if you're looking for it. The characters and writing are enjoyable, and the art is charming.

Beautiful ode to the art of carrying on amid loss, in the form of a relaxing and fun game that also works as a background "chill beats to study to" situation.

Very cute and calm, with excellent visuals and music. The story's been pretty great so far, with a likeable (or unlikeable in a good way) and interesting cast of characters and an MC that is their own person with their own complicated relationship with the people and situation they've found themself in.

The visuals and mechanics around growing your plants have more depth than you'd expect from an idle game, and I've been really enjoying it. Keeping my plants (living and dead!) happy and thriving feels challenging enough to be satisfying, and recently getting my character's Grandma's Littleleaf Bael to juvenile was a huge moment.

There's a lot in the game that gets you attached to your balcony and your plants and even the characters. I'm a huge fan of clucking over my little garden and get very proud when one of them blooms, and I genuinely feel rewarded by the ability to figure things out about them without the game explicitly telling me, like unknown humidity needs that you can figure out through trial and error and the like (Grandma's Littleleaf Bael has an unknown quantity decreasing its Happiness by 1 point and while I am no closer to figuring out what it is I will fIND IT). It's a VERY fun gardening simulator as well as a low-stress cozy story game.

Some things I might mention, though: I have a hard time using this game as a 'co-working' app. The needs of the plants decrease too fast to really make it easy to focus elsewhere, despite the 'focus mode'. When I was trying to let it run while I was studying last night, I found I could only get away for about 3-6 minutes before someone needing watering or the fertilizer needs decreased toward the bottom of the 'tolerable' range, even with prepping them beforehand, which was such a short amount of time that it basically left me way too distracted to actually relax and concentrate on my work. I think the plants get more tolerant as they get older (and I happened across some mulch that slowed dehydration, which helped a little) but the game starts encouraging you to do go do other things pretty soon after the tutorial, so that was my first experience with the focus mode and it wasn't exactly pleasant. While it's true you *can* let your plants die, there are some things only living plants can do, so I can see it feeling pretty discouraging to accidentally kill one after you've been babying it for hours upon hours. Some people are probably going to be more tolerant about this than others though, so this definitely isn't something I'd say is meant to discourage anyone from trying the game out! I personally wish they'd last closer to a 20 minute mark or something, though. Now I'm using it only when I'm doing something that doesn't really matter, like reading, and even then I have trouble really focusing on that when half my brain is on the garden (which does look very nice in wander mode!)