Roots of Deception

In this game, you play as a weed trying to take over a gardener's flowerbox. Change your plant's features to adapt and grow until you conquer the box!

Playing in fullscreen recommended for the best experience.

Tutorial:

The 5 bars on the lower-right side of the screen represent your plant's statistics. The top three are you basic needs - Sunlight, Water, and Nutrients - which you must maintain through strategic combinations of upgrades to avoid your health bar (the dark blue bar) from dropping below the red line. The forth bar is Suspicion, which is how suspicious the gardener is that you are a weed. If this bar is filled, the gardener will pull the weed and you will lose the game.

How to win:

Kill all the other plants while avoiding dying yourself or being caught by the gardener!

Shop:

During the game, you can spend points to change different aspects of your plant. You get more points each day you survive, with bonus points for weakening and destroying surrounding plants. Pressing the "Next Day" button will update the statistics of you and the other plants, and will also increase the number of points you have available to spend. Plant upgrades are loosely based on real-life plant biology, and each one has a different impact on each of your stats, so you will likely need to change things up often to survive.

Have fun!