Heliotropism
From seed to a great tree! Survive the seasons, face crisis and mutate yourself into a tree able to achieve your final form! Grow flowers, mutate, adapt and evolve and finally bear fruits!
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March 24, 2022
4 years and 132 days ago
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Very Positive80 reviews90.0%
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10 itemsAbout the Game
Ever wondered 'what if I was a tree'? Seek no further, Heliotropism is here.
In this rogue-like tree-building game, your goal is to last long enough to bear fruit in a harsh environment. Grow your tree, manage your resources, obtain mutations, mitigate crises and survive cold winters to get to the fourth year.
Key Features
- Resource management: Grow your tree carefully, spending energy that you generate to place tree parts so that you can generate more. Just beware of winter: no energy and no leaves means that the tree is dead
- Evolve your tree: As you go through the game, you can collect a plethora of mutations that not only make your tree stronger but change the optimal playstyle to something unique every run.
- Unpredicted Challenges: Survive different crises every playthrough, from a small breeze to forest fires, these are coming after your tree. Plan ahead and mitigate what you can, survival is not an easy task
To better suit your tree-growing needs, Heliotropism comes with:
- Monthly updates
- Customizable UI to fit your preferences.
- 4 seasons with different effects on your tree
- 100+ different mutations that buff up your tree in surprising ways
- 10 Different crises to beat, as well as a challenging winter every year
- 10 unlocks to enable even more content
- A vast underground filled with aquifers, rocks and sigils
- Hundreds of voice lines to keep you entertained while growing
