When did Nature Matters come out?

Nature Matters was released on 16 April 2020 for Nintendo Switch and iOS.

Nature Matters (2020) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Nature Matters

Set off on a puzzle-filled journey to save the planet and experience a compelling tale of friendship, sacrifice and redemption. In "Nature Matters" you take on a role of a little plant spirit. Without…

60 16 April 2020

What Nature Matters is

Nature Matters is an adventure game developed by Digital Melody and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set off on a puzzle-filled journey to save the planet and experience a compelling tale of friendship, sacrifice and redemption. In "Nature Matters" you take on a role of a little plant spirit. Without protection, surrounded by a city that grows up from everywhere, one day she realizes that she is completely alone and won't be able to survive. The only solution is to find her caretaker - a little boy who has been caught up in a whirlwind of human weakness and convince him to take care of her again. During your journey, you will see different lands devastated by the destructive human influence. Solving the puzzles, with the sounds of relaxing music, you will have the opportunity to restore…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are educational and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Nature Matters holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 13 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Nature Matters launched on 16 April 2020, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Persona 5 Royal, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord and Resident Evil 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Persona 5 Royal, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, Resident Evil 3.

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