So, in the discussions I’ve seen a lot of misconceptions about this game and I wanted to give my two cents to clear some of them up.

I love this game. It was always on my most anticipated of 2026 list and I was so happily blindsided when it was released yesterday. There are a few rough edges that need smoothing, especially with the localisation, but it’s exactly what I hoped it would be.

What it isn’t: Choices Matter. You are going to come across story events, and especially “companions” that you can accidentally or not accidentally kill. You may not even realise that that is a choice you are making or that you have been “locked” into that path already. You are an eldritch amoral abomination. The ways of mortals are mostly beneath your ken. And can you help it if you don’t understand your own strength and how fragile flesh can be? But also: you are an eldritch amoral abomination, and sometimes death isn’t as final as many mortals think it is. Don’t worry so much about it.

What it isn’t: A Skill Tree. This is a strategy game. Yes, there is an extensive upgrade tree for you to sink your blood into, but these “mutations” to the forest critters you come across aren’t truly as make or break as you think they might be. Upgrades to starting blood and water definitely are, and the “Omens”, upgrades walled behind achievements, are definitely extremely important. But blood as a currency is easily farmed and if you go back to explore the older maps you’ll quickly max out everything available that you can spend it on. And, if you don’t know what you’re doing on a level, no amount of upgrades on the tree are going to help you.

What is important? Your loadout: what trinkets you bring on an outing and what cards you pick for your decks. The way you spend those cards. The way you spend your blood and water. After completing a level you might feel all powerful and go back and spread your tendrils as far as you can stretch them. And then you try the new stage and suddenly your as stunted as that ficus in the corner of your bedroom you swear you’re going to water.

So don’t worry so much about your choices in the meta. Be like a tree and go where the flow of blood and water will take you. These mortal concerns are not for one such as you. What are your concerns? Spreading your roots and branches until they devour the world.

(And as for these accusations of using AI voices? I have no idea what they’re talking about. I haven’t heard a voiced line in this game outside the trailer.)

Interesting and strategic Evil Plant Simulator. I enjoyed the demo, and can see how this has already been refined and improved, though there are minor issues with the text in places - it's still perfectly easy to follow.

I'm curious to see how it develops: it's a kind of horror tactical roguelike about connecting your tree to sources of blood and balancing resources as you expand, extending the story as you go. The trailer does a good job of covering things if you didn't get a chance to play the demo.

Heartbreakingly, I have to say I do not recommend this game.

The vibes, exploration, and core mechanics are great.

The major problems start becoming very obvious by the time you have progressed a little ways into the third map. The english localisation just isn't at a level that satisfies the ambitions of the story, leaving me very unsatisfied and generally confused with the overall storyline.

There's a really interesting game with excellent presentation and hopefully the team can find someone to work on the english localisation. Until such a time, its a no from me :(

FEED ME SEYMOUR

Incredibly interesting evil plant game. Plays similar to Cultist Simulator, but you're a giant evil plant extending through an evil forest discovering all of its evil secrets. There are some mild translation errors, like the game/run over screen being, "evacuated" (which I assume means you retreat back into the depths), but most of the dialogue is fairly spot on. A very relaxed (but definitely evil) game that I'm excited to keep playing.

Game is pretty slick. Reminds me of carrion even if the gameplay is fundamentally different. If you want to play as the bad guy I recommend this game.

it's a nice day in the forest and you are a horrible blood-sucking plant monster

Amazing game, way better and more then what I expected. I killed Owl by accident, it is very easy to do, and I cried. I restarted the entire game just so I could avoid killing Owl. Devs, please make it more clear that you are about to permanently kill the NPCs. Not just the event that asks you to kill them but, in general when you drag your roots to them there should be a warning before it kills them. It broke my heart, I still feel bad I thought I was picking them up.

I really enjoy this game. There is SO much to explore in each level, and the resource system feels fair; youre not constantly starved for resources, but you have to be smart about your connections and maximizing Growth or you will absolutely run out of blood.

I do think it needs another passover for English localization though. Some of the subtitles have awkward wording or grammatical errors.

Also, I somehow managed to accidentally murder every single friendly NPC I have come across (I know about the altar). I think that's on brand for a game where you're a demon plant thing though. Mindlessly killing things after you forget theyre supposed to be friends.

Incredibly addicting, absolute masterful art style and a really cool twist on card building, roguelikes and meta progression. I've been playing on normal difficulty and its really easy so far. Almost feels like a little power fantasy trip, but new mechanics keep being introduced with each area so far, keeping it very interesting and fun nontheless.

You might have to up the difficulty if you want a challenge, but there are multiple endings it seems and a few different choices to make, so replaying it later on on a different difficulty seems reasonable.

I've seen people say it's too linear....which I have to disagree with. The first area already had quite a few secrets, currently I'm in the second Act which has so many branching paths already, I feel like its a bit overwhelming even. Yes there's an overarching storyline you have to follow, and I can imagine that it can get boring if you don't quite get the mechanics, but on my second run I already had so much blood that I could level up a ton and progress easily with every next run. It never felt like I had to keep doing the same things. There'salways been pretty satisfying progression so far.