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Grow Home (2015)

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Grow Home is an adventure platform video game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. It was released on February 4, 2015 for Microsoft Windows, and September 1, 2015 for PlayStation 4. The game follows a robot named B.U.D., who is tasked with growing a plant that will oxygenate its home planet. Players explore an open world, moving B.U.D. and individually using each of its arms to climb and interact with objects.

Initially developed by a small team at Ubisoft Reflections for internal release, the game became popular between co-workers and was eventually planned for official release, confirmed in a blog post by Ubisoft on 22 January 2015. It was created using the Unity game engine, and contains procedural animation and physics-based gameplay, which allow the player's movements to adapt to the game's environment.

Grow Home received favorable reviews upon release, with critics praising its open world and visuals, while criticising its short length. IGN‍ '​s Brandin Tyrrel called the game a "beautiful climbing adventure", and Eurogamer‍ '​s Christian Donlan stated that it's the best rock-climbing game he has ever played. Destructoid‍ '​s Ben Davis said that the game is an impressive effort with "a few noticeable issues holding it back".

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