Plants are relaxing?
Sometimes, instead of playing an actual game, you just want to water some succulents and sing to a snail. If you’re looking for a relaxing activity after a stressful time, Viridi is the game for you.
At the start of the game, players choose a pot and a pack of seeds to plant. In the pot, players can choose to move their succulents around and water them. They can also choose to sing to them if they wish, although there is no noticeable effect to singing to the plants immediately. These succulents are watered and grown in real time, meaning it takes days in real life for a plant to fully mature in game.
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Players are encouraged to return every day to check on the status of the succulents and to water them if necessary. However, plants can be over-watered. If a plant becomes parched, they will cease to grow. However, plants in Viridi do not die, they will simply remain parched until the player returns to water them.
Once a plant reaches adulthood, there is a random chance that they will bloom. Each individual plant has a different flower. Different plants can be purchased for a few cents in the in-game store with micro-transactions, but players can also receive a random seed once every week. Players can also purchase additional pots to maintain more than one collection of succulents.
Though it started off as a free game on steam, Viridi has quickly migrated to mobile platforms. The relaxing atmosphere and real-time waiting are certainly not a good match for PC gaming as the game is more of like a hobby. There is little interactivity other than watering and weeding the plants, and singing to them.
