Botanicula

Amanita Design / April 18, 2012 / Rated Everyone 10+

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Released

2012

Publisher

Amanita Design

Time to beat

~3 hrs

Community

2,087

Five unusual creatures living on the tree, trying to save the last seed from other creatures, arachnid parasites.
Unique abilities of heroes:
The protagonist, Mr. Lantern, a small orange creature, can illuminate dark spaces. If he eats enough luminous seeds before that.
Mrs. Mushroom is able to create copies of herself and decrease to the size of her hat.
Mr. Poppyhead is the strongest of the characters.
Mr. Twig - can extend parts of his body - twigs. And he knows how to instantly grow flowers on his body.
Mr. Feather - small in size, but can fly.

Heroes can unite their abilities, helping each other. Advancement in the game requires studying the environment, solving puzzles and collecting items necessary to overcome obstacles. Heroes can interact with other creatures that occur in the game.
Seven locations of the game have their own ultimate goals.

Amanita Design s.r.o. is a Czech independent video game developing company founded in 2003 by Jakub Dvorský and headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. The company has created award-winning games including Machinarium, the Samorost series and Botanicula, as well as educational and advertising minigames and animations, all using Adobe Flash. Clients include BBC, Nike and The Polyphonic Spree. Since Pilgrims (2019) and Creaks (2020), the company has been using Unity to develop its games. Amanita Design currently operates in several smaller teams, each developing a game of their own. One of them is the cardboard-built adventure Phonopolis. The company's name and logo are derived from the Amanita muscaria, a poisonous and psychoactive mushroom known for producing hallucinations. The fact that it's known for containing a psychedelic compound pays homage to the surreal and dreamlike style the video games are known for.