The Green Book - Cozy Plant-Growing Game! [DEMO]

[theeugene]

Hey everyone!

My spouse and I are thrilled to share a project we've been working on: The Green Book!

The Green Book is a cozy and enchanting game where players nurture magical plants and manage a whimsical garden shop inside a giant oak tree. With a focus on relaxation and mental well-being, the game offers unique plant behaviors, customizable environments, and delightful mini-games.

We've released a demo for PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS. In the demo, you can try the basic mechanics of growing plants and feel like a real gardener! Grow 10 unusual plants and develop your own shop from scratch. It's just a taste of the greater world and story that we want to create in the full game!

Also The Green Book is now live on Kickstarter.

If you'd like to help us get over the line or try the Green Book demo, you can check out the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theeugene/the-green-book-0

[Jubal]

Ooh, I like it! Feels kinda in the same vein as Strange Horticulture a bit but much more with a "cute forest creatures" aesthetic?

I dropped some money for the early bird game on Kickstarter, I'll have a go at the demo someday soon

[theeugene]

Ooh, I like it! Feels kinda in the same vein as Strange Horticulture a bit but much more with a "cute forest creatures" aesthetic?

I dropped some money for the early bird game on Kickstarter, I'll have a go at the demo someday soon

Thank you so much for your support. I really appreciate it!

I hope you enjoy the demo. Any feedback would be appreciated. We would like to implement a lot of cool ideas in the full version.

[Jubal]

Great, sure - will definitely share feedback once I've had a go at it

[Jubal]

Right, I finally had a go at the game

I enjoyed it, main bits of feedback:

• I liked the hats, the frog is very cute. The game had a fairly nice calming rhythm to it as well.
• The triple-speed should be a good bit faster: once I'd got onto growing kraken vines I felt like I was twiddling my thumbs quite a bit.
• Music currently gets quite repetitive as it's such a short loop.
• It took me a little while to find the chapter objectives etc, there maybe needed to be a stricter prompt for me to open and look through the book.
• I don't know if the bear is much of a character, in that I'm not sure if the game is meant to have a wider story per se - if it isn't, maybe being able to choose bear type/fur colour would be fun?
• I took 18 days to get through Chapter 1, though I think I'd have been able to do it a bit faster if I'd realised what my objectives were sooner. I killed one plant from under-watering in that time.
• Re the watering mechanic, it wasn't initially clear that in this game you can't over-water plants, so I was maybe being overly cautious at the start because I intuitively assumed that was a risk and you shouldn't go over the meter.

Pictures!