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Another dead ostensibly-multiplayer experience Botanik is a game about watering plants. The problem is, those plants need water according to a real-world real-time schedule, the timetable of which is never made clear to you. You can view other players' plants and areas, which are uniformly dead and barren respectively, and wonder what the game felt...

Steam, , 11 found it helpful

a quaint game, for those who say "there's nothing to do" or "it even admits to having 10 minutes of gameplay"
they are correct however, its $3 who even cares the point of sokpop is they make short games

Steam, , 4 found it helpful

Botanik is an interesting game. You can mainly take care of your plants and visit others gardens, though presumably most people have abandoned their gardens and have left them dead. I wish there was more to do, but is not a bad game at all.

Steam, , 4 found it helpful

A game with a truly impressive amount of nothing. Do you want to be bored out of your mind for only the slightest semblance of a reward, but with all the stress of not knowing how much care your plants need to avoid dying? Watering seems to be all you need to do, but the game does everything to make such a simple task feel like the most annoying chore...

Steam, , 3 found it helpful

The rate of growth of the plants is in a weird, inconvenient middle-ground: it's too slow to witness within a play session, but too fast to let grow over hours and come back to at the end of your work day. You have to come check your plants regularly, which is neither fun on a free day or feasible on a work day. Otherwise, part of the appeal of the...

Steam, , 1 found it helpful