Slay the Spire meets Terra Nil in The Solace of Flowers, an "eco-dystopian" deckbuilder in which you cover corrupted islands with foxgloves, bees and, er, lions

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The Solace of Flowers is different tactical roguelike deckbuilder, but wait! This one's besides a sweet, grid-based gardening game, awash with daffodils, foxgloves, squirrels, honeybees, and different taxon of works oregon carnal I recognise from my ain allotment down the road. (Have I mentioned that I person an allotment now? I consciousness similar I've bored immoderate of you astir it before.) You adjacent get immoderate lion cards, but please, don't shriek - this is conscionable developers Ceiling Games being whimsical and/or poetical. Those "lions" are really a root of dandelion seeds, ho ho. There's besides a duck paper that throws distant your full manus and distributes vegetation astatine random: I'm picturing a mallard guzzling a clump of blackberries and pooping seeds everywhere.

Honestly, I question the contented of immoderate of the game's works oregon carnal characterisations, but there's nary clip to get picky astir zoological nuance, due to the fact that this is an apocalyptic satellite and a clump of rancid godhands are trying to execution you.

Let maine commencement again: The Solace of Flowers is simply a tactical roguelike deckbuilder successful which you play cards to works daisies, appletrees and whatnot connected grid-based islands that person been corrupted by unnatural forces. The second (so far) instrumentality the signifier of elephantine hands, sprouting from the cracked world to swipe astatine your wellness bar. You indispensable screen the isle successful greenery to decision them. Do so, and the land volition besides alteration into a afloat flourishing rotatable diorama.

Each works has a circumstantial projected increasing pattern, comparable to a Tetris block. They'll lone turn if you works them adjacent a h2o source, however. A cobblestone way runs done each island: astatine the extremity of each turn, a dinky watersprite ambles on it, moistening immoderate seeded pots they pass. So you person to efficiently deploy your veg to person h2o and colonise the land earlier those touchy-feely anomalies resistance you under.

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There are besides animals, which service arsenic wildcards and enactment cards. Ladybird cards enactment (somewhat cruelly) arsenic a shield, accumulating similar Block successful Slay the Spire. Frogs determination a paper from the gully heap to your hand. It feels similar there's a batch to consider, though aft 20 minutes with the Steam demo, I'm inactive gathering up a consciousness of the shape-arranging "Townscaper meets Terra Nil" element. No, I garbage to accidental that it's increasing connected me. I respect you excessively much.

Developers Ceiling Games are based successful Madird, and picture themselves arsenic "three radical making wacky games successful the anticipation of moving distant from having an underpaid bureau job". I similar your spirit, Ceiling Games. Though I fearfulness your eccentric ideas astir lions are going to get a fewer radical eaten, particularly if they find their mode into Google Answers.