A Storybook That Comes To Life, Growbot Release Date

From the same publisher that brought us The Longing, comes a point and click adventure suited for all ages. Is Growbot an animated storybook? It sure looks like one.

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That’s no coincidence as Growbot is the brainchild of Lisa Evans (Wasabi Play) – a UK-based illustrator who brings had gorgeous designs to life after teaching herself Unity. 

A 2D adventure, your job is to help the robot Nara save her home ‘from a dark crystalline force’ in a biopunk space station crammed with all sorts of wonderful plant life and aliens.

Key features in Growbot include:

• Explore a beautiful space station and repair its strange machinery.
• Interact with fantastic plants and aliens.
• Use your Brain(apilla) to solve puzzles.
• Collect the sounds of flowers and combine them to create powerful shields.
• Meet a fluffy white hologram called Star Belly with a galaxy inside.
• Unearth a tale of flower power with twisted roots.
• Art by award winning illustrator Lisa Evans.
• Beautiful music by musician Jessica Fichot.

The amount of times I refer to the artwork in games as ‘storybook quality’ seems appropriate now, as this truly is stunning:

Growbot release date is the 21st of October 2021 for PC, Mac and Linux (Steam, and GOG).