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Growth

Web browser • 2023

Should you play it?

Growth is a cozy, hexagonal-grid based soft-strategy game. Explore and populate a procedurally generated world by utilizing unique abilities of animals. Growth blends the beauty of cozy exploration with challenging navigation around obstacles.

What works

  • Relaxing and calming atmosphere
  • Engaging strategic puzzle gameplay
  • Procedurally generated maps increase variety
  • Accessible and easy to learn
  • Good replay value for initial sessions

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited content and replayability after multiple runs
  • Steep difficulty spike at endgame volcano map
  • Tutorial could be clearer on mechanics
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Some achievements are grindy or bugged

What to play next

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Growth: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Violence, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 26/07/2026