Grimoire Groves

For the amount of hours I played since I got you would think I like it more. Sadly, too much grind, too little explained, and too little organisation. Now in order 1. Mobs are a pain. Fighting even the simplest mobs takes far too long, and very often they spawn to close and many that you get overwhelmed, because you need to hit mob every once in a while or it will take your hp, but every once in a while is too short so too bad! Oh did I forget that the mobs have rare drops that you need somewhat commonly? How would you get it? No clue. They randomly do that. By randomly I mean like once an hour, sometimes more often. It does not depend on how fast you plant it, how many steps you take, nothing that I could think of. Just again random. But what is even better is that you are not allowed to keep your drops after you reenter the forest!!! You either turn them to compost or use straight away! And then you discover you need it! Love it. If would be fine if they weren't so rare but its fine, managable. You do get a way to store them, but you don't get a lot of storage. Mobs are repetitive. More than half is just repeat of the same thing with different skin and a bit different power. I understand, and don't. I wish there were more varieties, or more grouping to say that "these are family trees so they are similar" and like, give them more variation in power, it would be so lovely to discover them and maybe "classify" them, idk. Also the fact that to unlock "plot relevant" mobs you need to do all those which make your life difficult is just unfair. Either give power scale so they are not a problem in the future, or like, give option to disable spawning of certain ones? Like I need a new plant for a mission and I need, say, 15, but in all levels max it spawns is 5 times even if I plant everything. So you can only get it by using fridge and doing multiple run. I think I did try then but then it showed that I have 0 of that plant in the fridge, pretty sure it was a bug, but sad either way. Oh and if you run out of mana/hp you lose half of your items! It means half of each item. Which means if you have rare one too bad! No more. 2. Spell system is a wack. Even with spells which supposed to do something, like "stun" or "move" them they don't always do that. I thought it is mob specific, but no. They just randomly don't work at all. I got hurt too many times because of that. They there are somewhat useless spells which then don't affect much, don't plant the mob fast, nothing. There are no special combinations to make them more powerful, no "tree" of spells, nothing to make yourself better. Just. Almost completely random unlocking. Even the power of the spells is not consistent. Sometimes it plants, sometimes it doesn't. Lovely! Then you have bonus power. Do nothing whatsoever. If you get stuff like "these spells more powerful" yeah it does nothing. Good luck. 3. Quests are also a pain! In not a good way. If you need to bring a plant by a name you can't tell which one it is, or how to get it, which biom, if you need to unlock anything before that. Same if somebody requests items and shows you picture. No clue what it is if I don't already have it, neither where to find it or how, or anything. Also why are you only allowed to talk once to a person per forest run?? Why can't I finish quest and immidiatelly request the second one? I think the worst thing for me, on pc, is that VIEWING QUESTS IS A PAIN IN ITS OWN RIGHT. You need to press tab to view them, sounds ok right. But it starts to scroll down after some time.So you try to move it up, which is only possible with mouse going up, so you inadvertently activate your spells, ok, its fine, BUT IT KEEPS ON SCROLLING DOWN BECAUSE YOU ARE STILL PRESSING TAB AND IF YOU STOP IT WILL STOP SHOWING QUESTS. Very annoying. 4. Some other minor annoyances When you are running in the main "garden" passive npc are in the way of the path, they do not move and you cannot run past. You cannot get good at cauldron game. Initial mouse moving feels random more than your skill, whether you move it fast or slow it add approximately the same little. When you do need to click on the mouse the bar moves very randomly and the moving of your heart down is far too slow. One mistake and you are done. For somebody who loves stardew fishing and can do the rarest fish without mods, this one is just no fun. Main character is not a very smart cookie. It is okay but it does get a bit on the nerves sometimes. Skipping explanations of some items is a bit annoying, especially when I accidentally press explain again. Can it just be done with esc please? Its just. Eh. Some explanation are not very clear either. which is ok but yeah. Also, the pause music is nonexistent, just beat which gets pretty annoying after a while. ! On the positive, the artstyle is so so so pretty, all of the scenaries and forests, and background things, and (ignoring the repetativness) the mobs too! If there was merch I would get it, it is just some of the loveliest things I've seen. The fact that forests and many spells resemble mushrooms is so wonderful and definitely makes you feel like you are in a world of cozy witchy magic! Honestly just this makes the game worth playing even for a bit. Very lovely

省流版：[u]除了画风一无是处，又肝又牢，快逃！[/u] [h3]先说优点，不然怕之后骂着骂着忘了[/h3] 画风很漂亮，从商店页面的图片就能看到，非常鲜艳亮眼的配色，是我喜欢的花里胡哨，一切都很美丽，场景很好看，植物设计的很有个性（虽然个别存在换皮），连ui都非常可爱 另外夸一夸游戏的包装，把普通的打怪包装成给到处乱跑的植物浇水，浇到一定量后就会乖乖长在地上被收获材料，非常有创意的设计 [h3]1级无用之人大挑战[/h3] 起初以为是个种田游戏，但其实是肉鸽，也不是不行吧肉鸽也是我喜欢的类型，玩法就是打怪刷材料来解锁升级地块，技能，道具等，对不同属性的植物要用对应属性的水，但给我的感觉是制作组0个人玩过肉鸽，手感很怪，局内成长也是几乎没有，唯一的成长就是靠随机遇到的npc随机加一点不痛不痒的buff，你能想象么，就靠那比人物头像还短的一小截血条，只有在偶尔遇到这些npc时才能加血（哦对了买这些道具还要玩一个比星露谷钓鱼还难玩的小游戏，失败了又什么都没有，跳过小游戏要加钱），至于攻击方式只有开局选择的三个技能，而整个技能树的技能大多都不太好用，这个状态要打完三个大关和最终boss我请问？？？ 而在这个游戏里可太容易掉血了，除了植物碰撞伤害，朝我们扔各种小垃圾会掉血，用相反属性的水去浇会掉血，建立链接的植物长时间没有被浇水也会掉血！这里解释一下建立链接，就是指进入植物视野范围后，会出现一个以植物为圆心的圆且会开始逐渐长满警戒值，在圆被填满前跑出视野范围就没事，否则就会建立链接，链接还有仇恨联动真的离大谱，这里不点名（因为忘了名字）批评以下几个出生：警戒值长得飞快的所有植物，会瞬移的的甜菜，属性会不停变换的木头，无限分裂小蘑菇的大蘑菇，会放各种眩晕催眠等硬控的血牛 我并非动作游戏高手，能通关全靠游戏内挂，这个内挂藏的很深，主界面设置是没有的，只有在进行游戏时按出菜单才能看到，勾选这个内挂后植物的攻击不会再让我们掉血，但也并非无敌，上述的链接断开后还是会掉血所以也不能太浪 既然有了内挂，上述问题可以就当不存在，那是不是意味着这个游戏就能体验很好了？请接着看—— [h3]材料，材料，全是材料还要看脸掉落[/h3] 我们没有局内成长，局外成长总该有吧？是的您好有的，刷材料就能解锁对应区域的神殿，接着就能刷材料制作一些加血上限，加移动速度等效果[u]区域限定[/u]的道具放在神殿，然后继续刷材料提高神殿等级放更多道具，值得一提的是如果想更换道具，之前的道具就地转化城堆肥（一种可以当货币的垃圾），关于这个材料，我又要说了，所有植物都会有两种掉落物，一种是普通一种是稀有，稀有掉落物掉率真的非常感人，而制作这些道具的材料都需要稀有掉落物，解锁这些道具图纸需要完成局内随机刷新的npc的任务，也就是刷对应的材料，当然了这里也包括稀有材料 可能有人看到这里觉得这也没什么吧，很多类似的游戏也存在肝材料，且材料也分为普通的和稀有的，熟悉我的朋友都知道在肝这方面我有着惊人的毅力和耐心，怎么这次肝不动了？那我又要说这个游戏的另一个神人设定了——每次出发前会把包里所有的材料全部转化成堆肥，也就是说我一局结束刷的材料没用掉的全报废了，当然也不是没有办法，随进度推进会解锁一个一个冰箱，可以把材料储存在这个冰箱里避免被报废的命运。但是我要说但是，这个冰箱竟然只有6个格子？！可以升级，等刷完一堆超难掉的材料那么恭喜——冰箱变成12个格子啦！整个游戏大概二三十种植物，每种2种掉落物，每个格子还不是无限装，只能装20个还是多少个，而材料需求动辄100多个还分不同种类，我怎么囤？ 哦说到冰箱还有一点忘记说了，局内也会随机遇到冰箱并使用，但问题就在随机，比如一个npc找你要普通掉落物20个，稀有掉落物1个，可能我刷了几局根本刷不出稀有掉落物，终于刷到后可能我这局一局遇不到这个npc了（是的所有npc只在特定地图出现），回家后我又不能把这些材料带在身上进入下一局，只能放冰箱然后祈祷一定要在遇到这个npc前刷到冰箱，局内现刷也可以但还是那句话，看脸掉落 再说一句，果要做全成就的话还要这些npc满好感，送错了还要扣好感，而这糊到不行的游戏全网连个送礼攻略都没有只能靠自己去试错，当然这都不是问题，最大的问题是能否遇到这些npc全是随机 ———————— 这个游戏是我去年8月打的，当时就浑身不得劲发誓要狠狠辱骂，写了个开头因为各种原因就搁置了，最近有空继续写，本来还担心坏了大半年过去了我还能记得这些点点滴滴么？事实证明写着写着我死去的记忆就复苏了一切都历历在目[strike] 文思如泉涌 [/strike]，可见这游戏有多么折磨，希望制作组想做肉鸽的话多玩玩其他肉鸽学学该怎么做

I honestly loved this game. It was super cute and relaxing but still managed to be challenging which I appreciated! It is a neat spin on a Rogue Lite and I had a lot of fun playing through the game and getting all the achievements. I seriously feel like this game is so under-rated for the amount of enjoyment I got from it. [u]What I Loved:[/u] [list] [*] The artwork and story of this game are absolutely adorable. [*] I liked the concept of watering all the plants to get their seeds and things instead of having to fight them and thought it was a cute touch. (Also the plants "hugging" you is both frustrating but also an adorable addition.) [*] It has a relaxing mode and there is no penalty for switching back and forth between it and the normal mode. I particularly appreciated this towards the end of the game when the plants got a bit harder to water. I would switch modes depending on what I was trying to accomplish. [*] The game is still challenging even with Relaxing mode on. The only real benefit is you don't take damage from "attacks" on relaxing mode. I found this especially useful for figuring out which spells I wanted to use. You can still run out of energy if you fail to water the plants fast enough or get too far away, but it goes down a lot slower. [*] There's 4 general areas for the forest, one for each element (earth, air, fire, and water), the more plants you unlock and more elements you unlock the more challenging it feels. [*] There's a nice variety of spells to choose from and I liked trying out each one to find the ones that best fit my playstyle and worked well against the variety of plants. [*] Others might find it tedious or a bit grindy, but I enjoyed the collection quests within the game. It added an extra dimension of challenge as you kind of have to try to plan your route to best fulfill the quests and you don't always end up with all of the components you need in one run (you can unlock some storage later into the game which is extremely helpful for this though.) [/list] [u] The Maybe Not So Great, But Still Fine (At Least To Me) [/u] [list] [*] The game is a smidge buggy at times. A couple examples: there was one time I somehow dashed past the tree-line and got stuck outside the geometry and the final boss glitched for me and froze up when I was trying to figure out what to do and ran out of energy. None of the bugs were game breaking though and were easily fixed by restarting the game. Please note that some of the bugs I encountered were likely because I played with a keyboard and mouse and the game does tell you as soon as you open it that's it's best played with a controller. [*] At times I did wish for a little more guidance or tutorial on what to do, especially on the boss fights at the end of each level. I figured them all out but it definitely took some trial and error. I suppose this is no different than figuring out how to beat a raid boss in an MMO, but it felt a little odd for something that otherwise felt really cozy. [*] This game is very color dependent (red for fire, blue for water, yellow for earth, green for air). It you struggle with colors you might struggle a bit with this game. There were a couple areas I personally struggled, but cycling through the different elements until I found the ones that were correct wasn't overly difficult to do and for the plants that require multiple elements, the element sequences were pretty easy to memorize. [/list] Overall I definitely recommend this one and will be keeping my eyes out for future titles from this developer. For more reviews check out the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45071674-Under-Starry-Skies/] Under Starry Skies [/url] curator page!

The concept is cute, but the game doesnt work as a rogue like for me. Everything feels incredibly floaty and it's strangely difficult to tell where the enemy models are physically standing, and there is virtually no visual indications showing they are prepping attacks. I only spent a few minutes in the game but the combat really felt unsatisfying in a frustrating way.

Played just a bit, but came to say that playing on Steam Deck OLED is wonderful so far! The whimsical art style is gorgeous. Really pretty color palette. I’ve seen some Hades//Animal Crossing//Cult of the Lamb references in reviews. As someone who has totaled *hundreds* of hours across all three of those games (on Nintendo Switch), I’d put this squarely in the “magical girl” Cult-of-the-Lamb-type category so far. Roguelite runs, rescuing plantlings, and you return from runs to build a sentient garden. Hella cute cozy vibes, and they managed to come up with a really creative way to make combat non-violent. :) With the saturation of the cozy games market, it’s difficult to find something that feels really new and fresh, but so far, I feel like Grimoire Groves has nailed that. Feels like it was created by a team that has a lot of fun thinking outside of the box.

I've been playing almost non-stop for the past few days. I love it, and I find it highly addictive. I like roguelites, and I like cozy games so this game is like a perfect hybrid. It is a bit confusing in the beginning, especially with how the stamina works. However, once I got the hang of it, it's a lot of fun.

This game inspired me to throw glitter on the plants in my wife's garden to make them grow strong and happy. Long story short, the plants are all dead and we're now divorced. Highly recommend!

场景美术很绝，精灵都很可爱，玩起来也很解压，可惜重复度太高，基本就是遇到怪，三个技能反复丢到它们老实，新鲜度过去以后，关卡地图变大，虽然只有六关但打的手非常酸痛，也很枯燥乏味了，对目前的玩法来说游戏太贵

Hades but cuter!

Un hommage à la nature et à la magie botanique ! 🧙‍♀️🌿✨ Grimoire Grove charme instantanément par sa direction artistique sublime et son univers où la nature est reine. Ici, pas de menace à repousser, mais une forêt à réanimer, un écosystème à comprendre et à accompagner dans sa renaissance. Chaque plante a son rôle, chaque essence végétale possède ses secrets, et c’est en cultivant et en explorant que l’on redonne vie à ce monde oublié. 🌱💚 L’aspect roguelike enrichit cette aventure en nous permettant de découvrir au fil des parties de nouvelles espèces botaniques, des esprits sylvestres fascinants et des paysages qui se transforment au gré de nos actions. Un jeu apaisant, profondément enchanteur, parfait pour ceux qui aiment la magie verte et le lien intime avec la nature. 🔮🌳