Your zucchini plant, now in 3D too. Turn it, zoom in and watch the zucchini hang from their branches. 48 real days to see how yours turns out.
One zucchini plant. 48 real days.
Here the game's time is your time. You water it tonight and by tomorrow the soil will be a little drier. It gets light and dark at the same time as it does outside your window. The stems, the leaves and the flowers are drawn by an algorithm that imitates how a plant really grows. No two games give you the same shape, or the same harvest.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You check on it, water or feed it if it's time, look for pests and pull the odd weed. For as long as you feel like.
HOW THE CYCLE GOES
You start by preparing the soil and burying the seed. Until flowering you have to look after it as well as you can, because that stretch decides how many flowers open. When they do, the bees arrive to pollinate them, and if you've kept it up, every one sets fruit. The last stretch takes the most attention: each zucchini has its right moment, and picking it early or leaving it too long costs you points.
IMPROVE YOUR PLANT
When the cycle ends, you can take the seeds out of the Prime and Overripe zucchini you harvested. There are four qualities: Wild, Adapted, Selected and Heirloom. The better the seed, the more main branches the stem puts out. That raises your chances of getting a chimera zucchini, the hardest thing in the game to pull off.
ACHIEVEMENTS
There are twenty-two achievements to earn along the way, gardener's ranks among them: when you gather the harvest you get a score and the rank you earned with the plant.
WHAT IT DOESN'T DO
No account, no email. No in-app purchases, no lives, no paying your way forward. No leaderboard, nobody to beat. And it doesn't message you for the sake of it: a notification arrives when the plant actually needs something, at most one a day, not every evening at seven.
It's free and kept going by advertising: a banner at the bottom while you play and, if you feel like supporting it, the odd extra ad that you choose to watch.
ALSO
You can put a widget on your home screen with the water and feed gauges, without opening the game.
A notebook inside that explains every mechanic with real numbers, if you want to know why.
A daily graph of water, feed and pests since the day you planted the seed.
And a few more surprises.
Thank you for playing.
This game used to be a nice slow-paced idle game to open a couple times per day, but the developer recently added required ads to refill water/fertilizer and that killed all my interest.
Developer Response
Thank you for writing this, and for playing since the early versions. I don't like the ads either. I make I Have a Garden alone, and so far they are the only way I have found to keep working on it.On November 1 the tomato plant arrives. From that update, the watering can, the fertilizer and the neem oil hold more as you reach higher gardener levels, so you will need to refill less often.I hope you give it another try.Rafa
• New 3D view of the plant. A new switch takes you from the usual top view to the plant made of little cubes. Drag to turn and tilt it, and pinch to zoom in. The tools work the same in both views.
• In 3D the zucchini hang from their branches and the bees fly from flower to flower. The sun and the moon have their own cube version too.
• When you pick a zucchini, it leaves its spot and floats up until it disappears.
• The image to share your plant now comes out in 3D.
• Every game starts with the watering can, the fertilizer, the neem oil and the hoe at full.
• From October 16 to 31, overripe zucchini turn into Halloween pumpkins. Plant your seed in those days and its overripe zucchini turn into pumpkins for the whole game, into November too. At night they have a candle inside.
• New home screen, and on the 13-inch iPad the buttons and the text are bigger.
• Ready for iPhone Duo, folded and unfolded. Open and held sideways, the plant sits on one half and the controls on the other.
Version 1.3
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Information
Seller
Rafael Perez Sanchez
Size
24.1 MB
Category
Simulation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.