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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

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Growth. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • 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.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Growth. These titles are not in What to play next.

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 Exploration, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression.

Last update: 27/08/2026