Solarium

It's an educational game; you learn about plants through trivia & reading hints. Personally I enjoyed t. I never thought I'd be interested in playing a game about plants but it was fun. My only gripe is that it's too short; I was finished with it in 42 minutes. Other than that it's decent as far as games go.. 8/10 recommend.

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As entertainment: The graphics are dumb. The areas you can explore are very limited and thus not very fun. If you want to engage in the "build a plant" game you have to earn points by answering questions correctly, but as there are a limited number of questions and you only get one chance to get them right, that very quickly ceases to be any fun. If you are a science nerd looking for a science game you might think some of this stuff is interesting, I thought the stuff on middle-age european culture was kind of cool. I liked the game enough to play it for a couple hours, which is the entire game. To be honest, I really thought the music was cute and funny and enjoyable. As an educational tool: I do happen to work as math and science tutor and I am a trained plant biologist. This might be a good enrichment activity for middle-school aged students as a suppliment to a lesson about plants. (though with the poor graphics and limited space to explore, I'm not sure kids will really like it) Kids might learn a thing or too about about plants adapt to their environments or how humans use plants. The game only teaches random facts though, it it is not much help at teaching key concepts a science teacher needs to get across. Core concepts like explaining photosyntheses or parts of a flower or things like that... no where to be found in this game.

Not a bad little game! Cute, lovely music (the desert might be my favorite), and some genuinely interesting facts about plants. I do wish it had a bit more to it, as I'd have loved to learn more than what's offered. There's really only the ten questions in the four worlds with some hints to go along, so it's sadly not much. That said, the concept of the game is amazing and fascinating to me. Hello, xenobotanist/xenobiologist exploring worlds and cataloging various plant and animal life?? Maybe I'm a nerd, but count me in! I'd love to see a bigger game based on that. (or I can just make my next tabletop character a xenobiologist...)

I don't know, it doesn't feel cooked enough. It's mostly about testing random facts instead of giving more proper system of knowledge and since it's so generic and unpolished, I can't be bothered. And the speed of player? The worst thing to ever happen. Also, probably hard to care about science not on native language, aha.

Kendinle yarış. Bitkiler hakkında gerçekten ne biliyorsunuz? Öğrenmek ister misin? Ve kendi özel tesislerinizi inşa etmek için biraz puan mı kazanacaksınız? O halde Solaryuma hoş geldiniz!

"Solarium" is a rather unusual "educational" game where you wander around a bunch of environments and "learn" a little about the plants. The problem is you don't learn much, and while the graphics look pretty good as far as free games, the substance isn't there to back it up. It's also not much of an educational resource if you want to learn anything about botany or biology. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming idustry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.

Played it through, made some plants, neat game. Interesting platform for teaching tidbits of information. I would enjoy something like this but specified for learning the identification and hunting of wild edible mushrooms. Buts thats just my imagination going off on what could be created given our technology today. Great job on the music!... Download. Its free.