Yes, worth buying.
At $14.99. It has been as low as $2.99.
- Story and characters: 114 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 67 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 63 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Interface: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 7k player reviews · updated 3 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Botanicula is a charming and whimsical point-and-click adventure that invites players into a vibrant, hand-crafted world teeming with quirky characters and lush, imaginative environments.
Music, character voices and even sound design all draw extensively on a capella-style onomatopoeia that contributes further to the game’s aesthetic of childlike bliss.
The game offers some nice graphics and a superb aesthetic, although some ugly glitches here and there, it is pleasant all the same
It’s not like they’re particularly fun: usually, the gameplay loop at its most complex is figuring out in which order to click things in the scene.
While often just too easy, they can also quickly become frustrating when the solution turns out to just be repetition and luck.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No themes split opinion in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $14.99. The lowest we've tracked is $2.99.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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