The Botanist

It took a little bit to figure out what to do and the controls feel a little too snappy. It would be nice if they were smoothed out. Once I got playing it was really fun and the art is so cute!

Cute little game. It took a minute to figure out the objective, and it was sometimes hard to get the monsters to the plants. Overall fun though.

Ho, i thought I had it !
And then the boss got me!

I was pretty confused at first, and to be honest I was still confused until I won. I would have liked a little bit more information about what I was supposed to be doing.

The art style was super nice, and I loved the look of the giant crab. Good work :)

Satisfying! The gameplay feels nice and fresh, took roughly 1.5 lives to figure out how it works. Graphics and audio are "enough"; minimal and satisfying if not beautiful.

You managed to make me feel panic the first time the little mushroom people were coming towards me! The hit sound was a little loud in my opinion. Cute game, thanks.

fun game. i didn't really get it at first, but it really came together for the end. made me feel actual fear. good work

Very short, but an overall interesting experience. The ending is definitely surprising!

Very fun game, took time some until I realized, I have to lure the monsters into the plants, so they get fed and then to lure the boss into those plants. The movement was, I guess, buggy - because you could simply spam WSAD to move faster around. So you don't need to wait for the animation. Especially moving diagonally was extremely fast that way.

I like the concept! It took me a minute or so to understand what I needed to do 😅 but I like the minimalist, slightly cryptic description, and explaining more details would sort-of ruin that. I'm also very fond of the art and the whole general mood of the game. This is a well-crafted little experience 😊

Just a small thing that bothered me: the character doesn't move exactly on the grid, and it makes the hitbox unpredictable, which hurts the experience.

Short and i wanted to be more gameplay.
Maybe by adding some action when certain type of mob are eaten by plants ?

Great graphics.

The game was quite criptic, and the itch page didn't explain the goal pretty well, but after a while I understood how to play. Consider adding arrow keys control, as QWERTY keyboard isn't universal (so WASD can be quite uncomfortable for French players for example, witch are used to ZQSD)

@thegreenworm Thanks for playing.
The arrow keys for sure, I use a keyboard without them so forget to add them.

I wanted the players to figure out what to do organically which it seems everyone has. I'm glad that you and the other players kept at it to figure out what the goal was.

Took a second to realize the mechanic at play, but was short. Could easily see the space for unique monster mechanics, but it's still a solid experience.

Nice quick game. I like the movement. As the others have commented, the goal is not explicit so it was hard to know if I was doing things right. The boss ties it all together into a cool little action package.

That was fun! Cute pixel art style, and easy to figure out how to play it (except for the red squares at the bottom of the screen). The "boss battle" came a bit out of nowhere, I did not have enough fed plants nearby as I ran up, thinking they can't go up like the other crabs. :D If you wanted to create a sense of urgency, it worked really well. Just the sound was a little too harsh, maybe.