Plant Tycoon download game
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Quick verdict
Game:
Plant Tycoon
Download game from:
GameHouse (FULL FREE version when you open a trial Fun Tickets account!)
Footprint rating:
3.5/5
Plant Tycoon is a very unusual game. Several unique twists make this a "sleeper" that you'll find grows on you in no time!
What's it about?
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As you might expect from the name, Plant Tycoon is about using your green thumb to make greenbacks. You must use seeds, soil, water and fertilizer to grow plants, sell them in your nursery and use the cash to buy better seeds, more accessories for the nursery and so on. Tycoon all over again.
But there's more than one twist in this tale. For one thing, your plants will continue to grow even when you're not playing the game! That's right. Switch off without watering the seeds and slowing the time down at your peril.
You can cross-polinate plants with pollen from another plant to discover new varieties. Buying extinct or endangered seeds sets a greater challenge.
It costs a lot of money upfront, but you could not only make a killing, you'll be saving a species.
A bug collection is optional but a fun distraction for those of you who can't resist watching the plants grow. Grab a net and swipe frantically at the bug. If you don't have one yet, it will be stored in a jar in your shed. If you do, the latest specimen will be converted to instant cash. Handy.Other Tycoon-style and business games you might enjoy!
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Pros and cons
+ Big challenge, with 500+ plants to discover and nurture and numerous upgrades to your garden centre.
+ Strangely addictive. Gives you another reason to open your laptop first thing in the morning. You will begin to "feel" for your plants and hate to put up the "For Sale" sign when it's time to let them go!
- Just as there are people in real life who think plants are for farmers, there will be a lot of people who find this more boring than politics.
- Very slow-paced nursery scene means you are waiting forever sometimes for people to buy the plants. Ironically, as the game is generally slow-paced, but this section could use a turbo-charge option.
- Graphics are clunky in the nursery scene, with people's faces sometimes resembling ghastly death masks.
There's no game quite like Plant Tycoon. As a download game goes, this one's a really unusual one. It's far from fast-paced, but you will still enjoy the rhythm of tending for a selling plants.