Grow Home
In Grow Home you play as BUD (Botanical Utility Droid), a robot on a mission to save his home planet by harvesting the seeds of a giant alien plant. On his quest BUD will discover a beautiful world of floating…
Grow Home is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Reflections, released 4 February 2015 on PlayStation 4, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $1.59 at Steam. The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What Grow Home is
Grow Home is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and released in 2015. It was published by Atari. It is available on PlayStation 4, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Grow Home is an adventure platform video game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. It was released for Microsoft Windows on February 4, 2015, and for PlayStation 4 on September 1, 2015. The game follows a robot named B.U.D., who is tasked with growing a plant that will oxygenate its home planet. Players explore an open world, moving B.U.D. and individually using each of its arms to climb and interact with objects.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 26 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Grow Home holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 116 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $1.59, that works out to about $0.40 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core2Duo E7300 @ 2.5 GHz or AMD Athlon II X2 240 @ 2.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce GTS 450 or AMD Radeon HD5670 (1024MB VRAM). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.59 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Grow Home launched on 4 February 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and Resident Evil HD Remaster. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, Resident Evil HD Remaster.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Grow Home yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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