Botanicula

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Botanicula

Developer(s) Amanita Design

 Amanita Design
Publisher(s)

o EU: Daedalic Entertainment[2]

Designer(s) Jaromír Plachý

Composer(s) DVA[3]

Engine Adobe Flash

Platform(s) Linux

Mac OS X

Microsoft Windows

iOS

Android

Release Linux, Mac OS X, Windows

April 19, 2012[1]

iOS
 May 1, 2014

Genre(s) Graphic adventure game

Mode(s) Single-player

Botanicula is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design. The

game was released on April 19, 2012, for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The
game was later ported to iOS and Android.[4][5][6]

Contents

 1Gameplay
 2Plot
 3Characters
 4Reception
 5Gallery
 6References
 7External links

Gameplay[edit]
Like the previous games from Amanita Design, in Botanicula the player controls a
protagonist (or multiple protagonists) while exploring the environment, solving puzzles
and collecting items that are required for the obstacles that come in their way. The
player is able to interact with other creatures and find easter eggs that are present in the
lush environment. Like Machinarium, the game has no spoken or written dialogue.[7]

Plot[edit]
Botanicula follows the adventure of five botanical creatures (named Mr. Lantern, Mr.
Twig, Mr. Poppy Head, Mr. Feather and Mrs. Mushroom) who are trying to save the last
seed of their home tree from evil parasitic creatures that have infested their home.

Characters[edit]
 Mr. Lantern - The main protagonist of Botanicula. He is a small orange
creature, and portrays a Physalis. He can absorb seeds within his body. This
makes him glow and gives him power.
 Mrs. Mushroom - The second playable character. She can create identical
copies of herself. Another power that she has is to shrink.
 Mr. Poppyhead - The most robust member of the group and the third playable
character. He portrays the seed capsule of a Poppy.
 Mr. Twig - Another playable character. He resembles a twig. He has many
arms that he can expand. He also has the ability to spurt flowers.
  Mr. Feather - The last playable character. He is very small but can fly.

Reception[edit]
Reception

Aggregate score
Aggregator Score
PC: 82/100 [8]
Metacritic
iOS: 88/100[9]
Review scores
Publication Score
[14]
Adventure Gamers
Destructoid 8/10[15]
Eurogamer 7/10[13]
Game Informer 8.25/10[17]
GameSpot 8/10[16]
IGN 9/10[10]
PC Gamer (US) 82/100[12]
Pocket Gamer (iOS)  [19]

TouchArcade (iOS)  [11]

VideoGamer.com 8/10[18]

The game received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. [8][20] It was praised for its
music and visuals, as well as gameplay. However, other reviews noted a lack of replay
value.[21][22][23]
IGN highly recommended the game, writing, "It may not be as hilarious as adventure
games of yesteryear, but it’s persistently delightful, oozing character and grabbing hold
of the imagination." Destructoid praised Botanicula's world, visuals, and its ability to
straddle the line between traditional adventure game and experimental art
game. Eurogamer gave the game a seven out of ten and appreciated the vast variety of
secrets present in the game. Game Informer noted that the game "goes wrong in a few
important ways", criticizing the maze-like navigation and trial-and-error-dependent
puzzles while highly recommending the game to old-school adventure gamers. PC
Gamer lamented that the game could occasionally be "staggeringly vague", while
praising the game's aesthetics, writing, "Avoid it like a parasitical spider if you're not
willing to play on its own terms, but embrace it mightily if you're willing to give it a
shot." GameSpot praised the game's visuals, puzzles, characters, and soundtrack,
writing, "To play Botanicula is to peer through a microscope at hidden world and feel like
you've made the greatest of discoveries: one of a place that's so overflowing with
imagination and so full of wonder that only a person with a heart of stone would fail to
be taken in by its charms."
Botanicula won the 14th annual award in 'Excellence in Audio' at Independent Games
Festival 2012.[24] The game was also a showcased nominee and received the
Story/World Design award at IndieCade (the International Festival of Independent
Games) in 2012. [25] Botanicula also won a European Games Award 2012 in the category
Best European Adventure Game.[26] Botanicula was elected in the Booom competition as
the Best Czech video game of 2012.[27] The game also appeared on Anifilm in 2012
where it was given the Czech Video Game of the Year Award for artistic contribution to
Czech video game output.[28]

Gallery