These creatures are added to a library made of 'living' pictures: each character you meet is memorized along with whatever it was doing when you first spotted it.īotanicula: The Card Library What's That Sound? The creatures they come across often turn out to be incredibly bizarre, but that is why Botanicula is different.

The main heroes are not the most impressive characters in the game. But don't look for a help button: I did and couldn't find any, it's all up to your brains. Some puzzles also take a while as you have to choose the right character to make it through or understand the given hint. The game shouldn't be played in a hurry: enjoy the sounds of the forest, listen to the unique voices of its creatures. These abilities come in very handy when you get to the game's funny puzzles. Each of the five has a talent: they can fly, jump, grow, shine, run, and hit. These creatures look somewhat strange, but are more or less recognizable: a mushroom, a twig, etc. The Brave Five and The Ones They MeetĪs I mentioned a little earlier, you follow the journey of five tree friends. Try and you will see how confusing the corridor twisting can be. In case you've got an insatiable urge for mazes, the game can be made even more challenging: just do not use the map at all, rely on your memory. As it's usually the case, you do not get the whole map opened when you enter a new level, you have to explore the level and open it gradually. Then you find a leaf that changes in type and shape depending on the zone you're in. However, your adventure remains mapless no longer than the first couple of levels, whose structure is pretty straightforward. A Mazed WorldĮach level has its own structure and multiple zones, which makes it difficult not to get lost in those maze-like areas. In addition, the interiors of visited rooms may change (though not always for some purpose, sometimes this happens just for your amusement), so most rooms are worth visiting twice so that you could activate the objects you have already dealt with (or for the sole reason of seeing penguins fly). The space you need to explore and search for things also grows. However, the difference between levels is noticeable as with every move your journey becomes more and more difficult. So, there are no distinct levels, you gradually move from one story piece to another, thus getting fully involved into the tree world. If you click on creatures, you can see them act, or sometimes you get an object you need later on in your quest. The game lets us plunge into the weird atmosphere of a tree that just lives: everyone is doing something (eating, sitting, swimming). This question turns out to be rather difficult to answer in plain numbers. It's a story about five friends â tiny tree creatures who set out to save the last seed of their home tree, which is infested by parasites. An ordinary day, your home is growing, you are asleep, and suddenly you have a vision that wakes you up: a seed shows up asking for help â this is how Botanicula starts, a game set in a strange world with unusual creatures.īotanicula is a point-and-click exploration game created by JÃ¡ra PlachÃ½ and Amanita Design Studio, which went live on Steam just a few days ago.

Botanicula first level