Reviews

• ParadoxCookie

  Jan 28, 2022

  Good game. Slow at first. but especially more fun when you start making tons of money to buy chemicals. Really disappointing when you forget to check on your plants for a while and they're all dead. Luckily you can change the time settings though :) Definitely worth the 10 bucks. Fun to have on in the background while drawing or writing.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 29, 2022

  Such a nostalgia blast :)
• gamedeal user

  Nov 17, 2014

  A LIFE CHANGING GAME MAKE SURE TO WATER PLANTS
• gamedeal user

  Jun 10, 2015

  Personally, I find it to be a very enjoyable game. You could approach it systematically (perfect for people who like ticking boxes!) or just have fun breeding random plants and catching bugs. Has lots of additional features, such as time adjustment, hunt for magical plants (with special properties) and mutagenic chemicals ;) One of these games where it's fun to discover things without a guide. There's not too much place for seeds, so plan carefully!
• gamedeal user

  Jul 22, 2015

  This game is simple to understand and easy to fall in love with. Its a time management game so, even if your not playing it the game will still continue to run and continue with the game. But dont worry about that, in the menu you can pause time, make it go slower, or make it go faster. Its a bit hard to make money in the beginning but after a while it speeds up. The graphic's for the customers are a bit old school but that why I love the game. Its an old school time management game and in my opinion its was worth the money. The pictures make the game look more complicated then it really is. Also as a bonus feature in the game you can collect bugs that will appear randomly on your plants every now and then. So you can try and collect all the bugs as a little bonus feature to the game. This game won't take up much of your time and it's a bit addicting so be warned!
• gamedeal user

  Jun 16, 2016

  A very light-weight game that brings you back to a time where micro-transactions were nonexistant and you could happily farm, plant, whatever without having to hand over your credit card, watch ads or praticipate in a shady promotion... A little history lesson: Before tablet games saturated the video game market with free titles you could download and turning out to be micro-transaction riddled hooplahs, we had games like this. Games like Plant Tycoon would often be found on gaming websites or the game sections of popular social networking sites where you could play the game on the website as a limited demo version or download a free full version for a limited time before a timer ran out and asked you if you liked the full game and if you wanted to buy it from their service. Keep this history lesson in mind! My personal history with this game: I was a lonely shut-in middle schooler... I had stopped going to normal school and spent nearly all of my time inside the house because i wasn't allowed to go outside. So i often played games on the internet on my old Windows XP computer. One of them was Plant Tycoon. I played it on a website called Shockwave . com which as described above - was one of those sites where you could play the game on the site as a demo version or download a full version for free that would ask you if you wanted to purchase the title from their server after a timer ran out. I always played the demo version, but i always found myself loving this game. It was perfect when i needed to get homework done or needed to practice my typing skills because it ran on real time. No needing to worry about pausing the game and coming back to it - it's a game you run in the background while you do your actual work. So when i saw the game on Steam all these years later on a Windows 7 laptop with wi-fi, my nostalgia kicked in and i played the demo again, waiting for a sale on the actual title to happen... But it never did... For some reason this game never seems to go one sale, which was upsetting... But ultimately after arguing with myself, i spent a full 10 bucks on the title. But that proved to be 10 bucks well spent as if you're the type to justify a game's price with the hours you get out of it - you may find yourself sinking HOURS into Plant Tycoon... And don't let my current amount of gameplay hours fool you. I played the crap out of this game online in my middle school days. And that brings us back to the history lesson from before: Compare Plant Tycoon to any similar tablet game you'll find on your iPad or Kindle today... They may be free to download - yes - but then they'll ask you to either pay for some in-game currency with real money, subcribe to a service, or you try to play for 'free', but then you end up paying with time - watching ads, doing fishy promotions, etc. So when you compare the option of a pay-to-wait game on your tablet and Plant Tycoon on Steam - you're probably better off with Plant Tycoon. The game has no micro-transactions that cost real money - everything you can buy you can buy with in-game currency. It runs on real time - yes - but there are options to decide how fast or slow that in-game time moves and there's even an option to stop the clock entirely - a good option for if you're going to bed or know you won't be touching your computer for a while. The price may seem high but when compared to similar tablet games you end up with a better deal in the long run... This is really a 'mom' game. This is the kind of game that requires patience, so feel free to run it in the background while you work, cook or do any other time consuming activity you can't normally do while playing games. 10 dollars is still a bit much for such a light-weight and somewhat dated game, but it doesn't ever seem to go on sale... It might be one of those rare titles that only goes on sale very few times a year? If you can snag it on sale - by all means do it. But if you or your kids are sick of tablet games that are constantly begging you for money or bombarding you with ads and you need a pay once - play forever alternative: Plant Tycoon is your game. Plant Tycoon gets 5 out of 5 from me both with and without nostalgia goggles.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 22, 2017

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7h-2tdLZAk&t=45s This is Fish Tycoon, but with plants (see my Fish Tycoon review for details). It's also a better game, as it has more things to do while you are waiting for your plant DNA to fuse and create something super special or super-dead-already. Lop bits off your plants, catch bugs off your plants, spray lightly-toxic substances over your plants - it's all here. Then cart them off to your broken garden centre and watch the crazy thoughts of your customers as they decide what (and whether) to buy, It's all in real time, so don't show up one day and you will have a lot of dead stuff and the shame of knowing you killed a nursery of defenceless plants, you monster.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 3, 2018

  Needs to be remastered, badly. Cannot even open on modern displays. Would have to downgrade my graphics card to open it.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 10, 2020

  I loved it when i was a kid and i love it now
• gamedeal user

  Sep 21, 2020

  played this as a kid and its nice to go back to it.