Plantera

Overall Rating 6.5/10 Not really worth full price, but alright on a good sale.

Clicker game, clearly meant to by on mobile (phones or tablets). On a computer monitor, the trees, shrubs, garden plots, animals, butterflies, animals and birds are all huge, and very busy. Your mouse cursor is TINY. No way to set the cursor to a larger size either. Once you have any amount of activity on screen, the cursor gets lost in all of the patterns and colors and movement on screen. So you click blindly, hoping to somehow magically click what you are hoping to click.

It is CUTE. So if you want a cute time killer, this game may be for you.

It does get repetative and somewhat boring after just a short while. Clearlly a mobile port to PC, and perhaps it should have stayed on mobile only. It would be a fine game for killing time while commuting or standing in line for concert tickets, or waiting for a doctor's appointment. But it is just too bland for really fun longplay PC time.

Still, if you need cute in your life, and the game goes on sale for at least 50% or more, it isn't bad. No performance issues on a toaster, no crashing, no hitching, no sound issues. Just a TINY cursor you can't see on screen. Like I said, not a bad game. Just not a great game for all the hype it got when it released.

Hesitantly recommending it to those who adore cute, those who really love clicker games and for kids and young teens. I am not sorry I bought it on a deep discount, I am just sorry I am not able to enjoy it more. Perhaps you may?

If you are looking for something cute to kill time with on your phone or tablet, go get it from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. You may enjoy the game more there.

Plantera is a casual clicker game that was released in January 2016, being developed by VargatP. You build your own garden and watch it grow before your own eyes.

Gameplay is really simplistic; you grow plants and reap the rewards by selling the crops. You get a bit more money, so you grow another plant, so on and so forth. You collect your crops by clicking on them, hence why this game is classified as a clicker. The gameplay may sound quite boring to most, but it is strangely addictive. Not only do you have the option to grow plenty of plants, but you can also raise life stock to grant you additional funds as well. This life stock will also attract predators to your garden; you can either deal with the wolves and such on your own by clicking on them to make them run away, or hire guard dogs to do the deed for you. As you grow more and more in your garden, you will eventually run out of space; meaning you need to expand your garden. Your garden doesn’t stop growing and making you money when you quite the game though – you have helpers that will gather your harvest for you, meaning the majority of your money will come through downtime. Personally, I load up this game on a daily basis, to collect my gold, build a few new plants and then log out again.

Do not let my play time deceive you; I have been playing this game every day since it was released in January, but only for five minutes a day. That is all you need to get your fix and to continue growing your garden.

Graphically, Planter has a cute look to it, with some childlike character models in the farm animals and predators that break into your garden. The animations are simple but so beautifully done as well. This game is so colourful. The sound track is also one of the most gleaming features of this game; it’s so beautifully crafted and horribly catchy that you’ll be whistling the tune all day.

There is no difficulty to this game, you cannot fail and there is no real win state either. The aim is to simply grow your garden at a pace which suites you. The majority of the achievements don’t really require any skill; you will unlock them with time and patience.

Plantera is a simple, yet brilliant game. It holds a special place in my daily Steam routines of loading it up and harvesting my crops, along with a handful of other clicker games such as Adventure Capitalist. It is so perfectly priced too at a measly £1,99. You have nothing to lose by picking this game up!

Tom's Score Card
1) Stay away
2) Not Recommended
3) Only recommended when on sale
4) Recommended
5) Highly recommended
6) This is a must play

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http://store.steampowered.com/app/421040/

Overall Rating 6.5/10 Not really worth full price, but alright on a good sale.

Clicker game, clearly meant to by on mobile (phones or tablets). On a computer monitor, the trees, shrubs, garden plots, animals, butterflies, animals and birds are all huge, and very busy. Your mouse cursor is TINY. No way to set the cursor to a larger size either. Once you have any amount of activity on screen, the cursor gets lost in all of the patterns and colors and movement on screen. So you click blindly, hoping to somehow magically click what you are hoping to click.

It is CUTE. So if you want a cute time killer, this game may be for you.

It does get repetative and somewhat boring after just a short while. Clearlly a mobile port to PC, and perhaps it should have stayed on mobile only. It would be a fine game for killing time while commuting or standing in line for concert tickets, or waiting for a doctor's appointment. But it is just too bland for really fun longplay PC time.

Still, if you need cute in your life, and the game goes on sale for at least 50% or more, it isn't bad. No performance issues on a toaster, no crashing, no hitching, no sound issues. Just a TINY cursor you can't see on screen. Like I said, not a bad game. Just not a great game for all the hype it got when it released.

Hesitantly recommending it to those who adore cute, those who really love clicker games and for kids and young teens. I am not sorry I bought it on a deep discount, I am just sorry I am not able to enjoy it more. Perhaps you may?

If you are looking for something cute to kill time with on your phone or tablet, go get it from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. You may enjoy the game more there.