Growing Trees Is Surprisingly Fun

You've probably never heard of this game. But it's good, and you should play it. What's it called? It's called Photosynthesis. What is it? It's a game about growing trees and fucking over your friends by being a bigger tree than them, casting them into the eternal darkness of the void (until the sun rotates next turn), and overall just having a good time enjoying being a tree hive-mind. 

So, why should you play this game? How do you play? Should I play it if I don't like trees? All these questions shall be answered.

Photosynthesis is mainly an area control game, as well as sort of a resource management game. To win the game, you must have the most points at the end of 3 (or 4) full rotations of the sun. To do that, you must plant trees, grow them, and score them once they're big enough. To do those things, you'll need the games currency: light points. How do you get light points? You grow trees, and have the trees touch the sunlight. So overall, a simple cycle. Trees = money = more trees = points. Of course, there is a lot of strategic elements such as how to spend your money, where to place your trees, when to score them, etc. But it is much more of a casual game than expected. You can gather your family or a few friends and force them to play a game about trees, and although strategy is an important part of the game, you can still have fun even if you're miserably losing and surrounded by everyone's giant trees.

What are some reasons that would be a good idea to not spend money on this? Well, if you don't like board games or nature. That's really the only thing I can think of. If you like playing games, buy it. If you like nature, buy it. It may not be a hardcore nature based game with all sorts of facts and biological accuracy, but look at all the pretty colors and the squirrels. I don't know, just buy it, it's the same price as pokemon sun and moon, and everyone should know those games sucked. If you've got 40 bucks to spend on a relatively 'big' purchase, go ahead and yoink this game, it's worth it.

Hey, sorry I missed last week's review, I may or may not have been really busy with work. Normally I'll get it done before work or during a break, but last week was scouring a huge building to take out ALL the trash. And even after scouring the building, we still missed a bunch. Still, not here to give excuses, just here to apologize. Not like anyone reads these haha.