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If youve been following our team for a while, you might be familiar with our last project, The Day We Fought Space!. Its a fast-paced game about making spaceships slam into other spaceships with an escalating array of absurd weaponry. At a glance, you might think its the furthest possible thing from a cozy little game about doing sudoku so well that it makes flowers bloom.
That game had expressive plants, too, but they NEVER smiled. Not even once. Despite the difference in town theres an important aesthetic similarity running through the core of both games: these are both games meant to invoke and appeal to your sense of touch. On one level, its literally about touch: touch input and gestures were an important part of the experience for The Day We Fought Space, and weve designed Primrows from day one with touch-friendly controls that you can enjoy on a touchscreen device like a Steam Deck or a Surface. At a deeper level, its about the tactile experiences that our art and sound design are meant to evoke. Both games opt for a more handcrafted, painterly look meant to invoke experiences the audience might have once held in their hands. For The Day We Fought Space, we wanted players to feel like they were holding a playable comic book in their hands.
For Primrows, board games filled that role. The flower pieces are designed with shapes that look like they might have been wooden game tiles, the backgrounds would not look out of place on the background of a premium European board game, and even the quick reference card in the game rules evokes classic board game iconography.
The sound design was crafted to elevate the tactile vibes of the game and reinforce the fictional board game concept. Pruning flowers is accompanied by satisfying thunky clipping sounds, and the water animation is accompanied not only by a splash of water but by the sound of rolling dice. While we dont have any real-world Primrows board game pieces to play with, we do hope that all of these secondary cues will make it easy to imagine yourself moving flower-shaped tokens on a physical game board!

[ 2025-01-25 17:40:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Primrows

Tursiops Truncatus Studios Developer

Tursiops Truncatus Studios Publisher

1970-01-01 Release

Action Indie Strategy Casual RPG Adventure Simulation F2P Sports MMO Racing Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop EA Tags

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🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🎮 Full Controller Support

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A Serene Escape

With an ambient soundscape as well as seasonal, earthy and organic artwork, Primrows invites you to get lost in its cozy surroundings, while immersing yourself in mindful gameplay. Intentionally designed and thoughtfully crafted, Primrows has no time pressure, allowing you to mindfully and strategically make pruning choices.

Curl up and indulge in the meditative landscape while enjoying the whimsically puzzling adventure.

Grow Your One of a Kind Garden

Grow, prune, and cultivate your garden plots to create your unique garden. Tap into your logic skills as you rely on pattern recognition, chance, luck, and probability to and probability to uncover what garden patterns emerge, and watch your garden flourish!

The goal of Primrows is to ensure each garden has no two of the same flowers in any row, column, or quadrant. Prune flowers that don’t fit the pattern, water and grow new flowers in your garden to explore different strategies and take on new challenges presented in each round. It may sound simple, but flowers grow at random and you’ll have to balance strategy with thoughtful considerations of risk and reward.

With a high skill ceiling and plenty of depth, Primrows offers a challenging yet serene and digestible experience.

Fresh Ways to Play with Weekly Challenges

Primrows offers both a Quick Play mode and a Journal Mode to best match your playstyle, mood, and time constraints. Quick Play mode is a snappy gameplay experience where you harvest as many points as you can using your strategic reasoning skills to lead you to success. The more advanced Journal Mode provides extended play and challenges you to earn points for accomplishing specific criteria in your garden.

To keep the gameplay fresh and ever-growing, there are new Weekly Challenges that involve special flowers, flowers that can only bloom in specific tiles, tiles worth special points, and so much more.

Combining familiar mechanics in new and unexpected ways for an unmatched gameplay experience, Primrows allows you to refine and hone your strategy, while mastering your skills and enjoying an outdoor escape.

Features

• Cultivate your garden in a serene landscape
• Thoughtfully balance probability, chance, and pattern recognition at your own pace
• Indulge in Quick Play or Journal mode to match your desired playstyle
•Ambient soundtrack and handcrafted artwork that revolve seasonally
• Infinitely replayable
• Provides a suitable challenge for all skill levels
• Proudly provides accessibility for color blindness, low vision and motor skill needs

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