ROOTWORK
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Puzzle. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
ROOTWORK is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
Grow the roots. Share every path you can. A seed has landed in a meadow. Somewhere under it, pools of water sit in the soil between the clay and the stones. Grow its roots down to every one of them and it flowers. Hold a direction and the root tip grows into the soil, one cell at a time. Loam is easy, clay is slow and costly, old worm burrows are quick, and stones cannot be grown through at all.
Roots never grow upward. Slide back along the roots you have already grown to start a new branch from anywhere on them. With a mouse or a finger, drag from the tip along the path you want and the root grows exactly there. Every soil has a leanest root system, and the game knows it exactly Every cell of root costs the seed sugar, and a root that two pools can share is paid for once.
For every soil the game works out the cheapest root system there is (exactly, not a guess), and the notch in your sugar gauge shows where it would stand if you grew it. Match it for GOLD. Get within 5% for SILVER, within 15% for BRONZE. After every bloom, press X to see the best roots drawn over your own.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.