The Floracle
A Botanical Game
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
The Floracle is a weird and wonderful botanical game and Rorschach test in one. Your flower choices reveal who you are while challenges test and elevate your knowledge.
Why play a shoot 'em up game when you can play The Floracle, a floral Rorschach test and botanical challenge game where you can learn something about yourself and the world around you? Each session pairs flowers from a database of more than 400 North American wildflowers. You choose — by instinct, by beauty, by something harder to name. The plants you're drawn to have something to say about you. The readings are written in second person, present tense, sometimes syrupy, other times with an edge but always grounded in real plant biology. Think the Doctrine of Signatures: the flower doesn't represent a human quality by metaphor. The flower is the metaphor, immersed in science. WHAT'S INSIDE
The Floracle — a 10-round botanical game and Rorschach test. Each round presents
two wildflowers. Choose one. At the end, the plant you chose most often
in its category becomes your gift — a new flower added to your garden,
with its own oracle reading and full botanical profile.
The Garden — your collected plants that you've received, organized and browsable with botany and readings available to review. Collect all 402 species. Each
flower's botanical note describes the real mechanisms behind its biology: how it pollinates, how it moves, who it partners with, what it eats, what eats it, how it
survives fire or salt or altitude. Find out where each plant lives using iNaturalist range button map.
25 Botanical Challenges. Hours of learning— a field botany education disguised as a
collection game. Unlock challenge categories by guessing the plants that belong, find all the plants that use buzz pollination, or plants that move, or ones toxic enough to kill you.
The Aeolians: wind-pollinated species. The Chemists: plants that deploy allelopathy and phytohormone mimicry. The Grifters: flowers that deceive pollinators with no reward. The Flame Outs: species whose seeds require literal wildfire to germinate. The list goes on. Each category is its own short course in plant biology. Each unlocked challenge offers a reward card
Plant of the Day — a different wildflower every day, drawn from the
full catalog.
THE BOTANY IS REAL
The oracle readings are written in the voice of a psycho-botanist who reads your card selected from the test. The botanical notes describe actual mechanisms —
buzz pollination, myrmecochory, cleistogamy, karrikin response — in language that doesn't require a glossary but rewards curiosity. Every plant in this catalog has been selected and described with taxonomic accuracy. The metaphors earn their place.
More 400 wildflowers. 25 botanical challenge categories. 22 Major
Arcana tarot cards as rewards. One question per round.
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WHAT'S NEW — VERSION 1.5
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The Floracle is now free to try.
Every player gets 3 free oracle readings, a 20-flower garden, and access
to the first 3 botanical challenge categories — no payment required.
For unlimited readings, the complete 403-species garden, and all 25
botanical challenge categories, the one-time Botanist Pass unlocks
everything, forever, including future additions.
The developer, Gregory bergman, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Gregory bergman
- Size
- 100.4 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Refusenik Studios