2026-04-21 02:34
I love the art style, and enjoyed the concept of discovering different plant tags.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD59 → Journal of Poisonous Experiment
By Dr Lancet, 500, aquaaa, and
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 435 | 3.56 | 68 | |
| Fun | 586 | 3.12 | 68 | |
| Innovation | 337 | 3.51 | 68 | |
| Theme | 649 | 3.22 | 68 | |
| Graphics | 110 | 4.38 | 69 | |
| Humor | 527 | 2.49 | 63 | |
| Mood | 479 | 3.53 | 66 |
I love the art style, and enjoyed the concept of discovering different plant tags.
Really like the plant art, the tags were well designed with relative ambiguity.
Interesting，I like the plant art.
Like the color.
The game is beautiful! I wish there were more hints to which tag belong where though. Maybe I' missing something, but it looks like you're supposed to try again and again until you figure it out. But even the very first plant is troubling, and if you guess wrong you have no information to go on in the future.
Очень красивая игра и классная музыка. Мне показалось что все растения ядовиты )) , я часто умираю).
@natalie-chenard Thanks for your support!!
@babyfoodstudios Thanks for your suggestions. We'll try to optimize this!
@taogod Whoever did the plant design is incredibly talented.
@hibiki Thanks!!
@capreola Thanks for your feedback! We’ve been reflecting on this, and we realize we’re lacking clear prompts for the plant tag attributes. That said, this design was also intended to boost replayability and add a bit of challenge—especially for players aiming to complete the full collection! Have you ever heard of the game Don’t Laugh, You Won’t Pass the Second Level? We’ll be adding explanatory notes after a poison failure in future updates. Thanks for playing our game!
@garyglhf We made the plant designs purposely weird and whimsical.
art is veeeeeery good! Gameplay is fun, too bad there is no skip dialog at the beginning of the game
The idea is great and art is beautiful but I seem to always get stuck in the third plant. No matter how I arrange the tags in the different boxes, the "Finish" button doesn't do anything.
@tay-elenberg Thanks for playing! We've received your feedback and will optimize this in future updates.
@juutis Thanks for your feedback! I retested it and it works fine most of the time, but I also encountered the bug you described once during repeated tests. We’ll look into it in subsequent checks, and thank you for your recognition!
such a nice idea! i enjoyed the visuals. the plants are just gorgeous. i couldn't quite understand how do i understand which tag is toxic and which is not — if i get a signal does that mean that all tags have to be poisonous? i also encountered this bug on the third plant, first i thought that i just did something totally wrong :D
What a gorgeous art style! It's so beautiful! I played several times because I wanted to unlock all the plant illustrations. It would be even better if there was a health indicator~
@gamayun-games Thanks for your feedback!
1. Currently, our game mechanics are designed for players to gain experience through repeated play. We’ll be adding some hints in future updates.
2. The prompt icon appears when a tag was placed incorrectly in the previous level.
3. We’ve also noticed the glitch in the third level and are investigating the cause ~ Thanks for the heads-up!
@hmeo We’ll work on the improvements! Thanks for loving it!
It's quite an interesting idea, but the gameplay is a bit difficult to learn. It's very demanding on memory and offers little positive feedback.
Art is really cool but the way of determining which tag goes where is very confusing
photo_2026-04-22_13-35-56.jpg I'm stuck here. I like the style and the idea, but I don't understand what I need to do. It's just not intuitive design and "signals"
It seems that I can't find a link to the game here... where can I play it?
The visuals and music are really great, and the art style feels very unique. However, I often ran into a problem where clicking Finish did nothing, so my progress got stuck and I had to restart. In situations like the one shown in the screenshot, I honestly could not tell what was supposed to happen. QQ20260422-185534.png
Very cool seeing all these alien plants, but I am not sure how I am supposed to figure out which tags go where, there is not much feedback on what's correct or not. I am also stuck on the same plant as @alexander-stepanov
Very nice visuals and a coherent story! I did struggle a bit at the beginning, though—I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to know which tag goes where. If the idea is to figure it out through trial and error, a skip button for the intro would be really helpful, so you don’t have to listen to it over and over again.
This game looks and sounds really good. The gameplay is intriguing but relies completely on trial and error at the moment, and the death condition doesn't give a huge margin. Perhaps making earlier plants less toxic and then increasing in toxicity would soften the learning curve. Some randomness in the plants and traits would make it interesting as well. Overall, I would like to see more of the game.
@kanhao We do lack positive feedback, and thank you very much for pointing that out.
@furyohfury We're working on improving the attribute issues of the tags, yet we also want to keep a bit of the challenge in the memory exploration.
@alexander-stepanov The issue you're experiencing is a bug in our game, and we're currently investigating its cause! Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
@crimsontrouper We've attached the link at the end, so you can check it out again~
@mantou The issue you're experiencing is a bug in our game, and we're currently investigating its cause! Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
@universeflow Thank you for playing and your support! We’re working on improving the positive feedback system. You might have encountered a bug that prevented you from clearing the level, and we’ll look into it right away.
@jasmin Your suggestions are fantastic! We’re working on them urgently!!
@ray-dino Your suggestions are incredibly professional... We'll take them into serious consideration. Thank you for playing our game!
@aquaaa Oh, I see... Great! I... think the link should be called like "itch" or "game" or "HTML". I think I just got confused with the "Source code" 😅
I agree with the previous commentators, the art style and music are very beautiful, but it is quite difficult to understand how to determine the toxicity of plants
Wow, this is really an interesting game. The concept of biology is quite fascinating.
As all people say the idea and art style are brilliant, nice work!
@crimsontrouper Thanks for the reminder—I just noticed it! Fixed it right away!
The game is pretty hard, but I loved the idea, aesthetics, and mechanics. Wonderful entry!
The game looks absolutely stunning! And I loved the concept!
I love the idea and the presentation, but I am not sure how I'm supposed to determine which traits are good or bad, is it just guessing or did I miss something?
(Bug report: I opened the field notes as soon as the next plant showed up and the traits didn't appear...)
The graphics are really impressive! The game looks incredible! If I understand correctly, though, it’s all about trial and error, right? I didn’t really get how you’re supposed to tell which tags are poisonous without dying over and over again. Still, it’s a really cool game!
bug_plants.png The music is super chill and I really love the artwork. Unfortunately, sometimes, I got stuck because no tags were showing up.
It might be good to allow players to skip the text in the beginning. You will likely need quite some tries to get everything correct :D
@crygos What a coincidence! I just spotted this bug too… Fixing it urgently now…!!
@aquaaa Let me know when it is fixed. Will try it again then :)
Really like how you guys interpreted the concept, but i felt a bit lost at the start. Didn't really get any feedback and it was more of a guessing game, where too many wrong guesses led you back to the start with an unskippable screen between trying again.
That being said, i absolutely love the art, music and the whole setting, crushed it there guys ^^
Good job! Nice artwork, music and general feeling. I really didn't understand what was going on the first runs and it would be nice to have a way to skip the initial text the fifth time you play it :D I didn't understand that the Game Rules section had multiple pages the first times I tried to read it and I thought that the close button was out of frame so I reloaded the page to continue. Good job over all! PS. Don't know if it's considered ok to do bugfixes when the time is out ;)
Hm I didnt really understand how to differentiate between toxic and non toxic traits. Just tried them one by one, but that got very tedious bc I always have to go through the intro.
The art style reminds me of retro point and click adeventures, love it! the game loop is a cool idea, sadly i didn't really figure out how to differentiate the tags as well. A few stronger hints here would have been nice, but awesome job!
Art style looks cool
Third plant glitched on me, but even before that I didn't really have a clue what I was doing. It seems that the game is designed around playing the same thing again and again until the player has correctly guessed all the tags. The art was great though, that made me give the game a shot. Maybe with some changes the game could bloom.
Nice entry! Loved how you fit the theme in your game!
Definitely was a bit confused by the gameplay but the style was really cool! Clearly could see attention to all the details from the artists!
SPOILERS AHEAD
I was confused by the survey notes, so I made my own :smile:
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It seems the colors are wrong. Green is supposed to be toxic, and blue benign, right? The same tag even changes colors from plant to plant.
Anyway, I managed to finish the whole thing! Didn't get more notes though.
I love the art and the overall idea behind the game. The concept is solid, it just needs to communicate the player's findings better. Maybe confirmed tags could even display a toxic/benign icon, so you can see them at first glance, and focus on the new ones?
The art is so great! lots of work have done.
@bellicapelli Actually, our system works on a trial-and-error loop, and the codex unlocks upon making the correct choice!
@redphoenix2412 You got it exactly right! That said, the difficulty is a bit high for now—we’ll look into adjusting it and adding more hints in future updates. What I find quite interesting is this: our plants have some counterintuitive traits, which might come as a nice surprise!
@letssnack We’re gathering feedback for improvements and will polish everything up in future updates. Thank you for your positive comments!
@jonasolsson We really appreciate your suggestions! It seems we can keep fixing bugs and re-uploading the game during the rating period, and we’ll definitely try our best to make improvements.
@crygos We’ve fixed the bug now—feel free to give it another try!
@hexstart You’re the first to spot this bug! =) You’re really thorough! I actually noticed the codex error early on too, and we’re gathering all the areas that need polishing to fix everything up together.plant1.png
I really like the concept of the game and the drawing style! Had a hard time figuring out which plants where good and which ones were poisonous, for there were no hints. But other than that, I liked to play it.
I was a bit confused at the start probably due to the lack of feedback. but otherwise the game is really creative and beautiful. love the idea
I adore the idea. In fact, I had a similar, unrealised idea years ago, so in a way, you built a dream game of mine :heart_eyes:
I deeply respect your vision, the game is suuuuuper atmospheric with great and varied art. The vegetation is so lush and alien, I love it. Also, your choice of music and sfx works extremely well.
In practice while playing, I have to agree with what others have said before, a little more communication about the traits would go a mile in playability and fun.
But! Even though I think your game could easily be * more * fun, it still left a mark on my, this is an experience I definitely cherish!
Lovely art style, nice music, and an interesting idea. Via trial and error, but would be cool to sort of ease into the complexity (you could even make different attributes counteract each other!). Hope to see more from this!
Very interesting theme and gameplay！
What I liked:
- The art and music — everything is great - The idea and interpretation of the theme — very cool
What I didn’t like:
- I don’t see any clear logic (or I just don’t understand it) for determining a tag’s property. It feels like pure trial and error. I’d like to have some additional mechanic to make informed guesses without risking a full session failure - Restarting after a failure takes too long — I want to return to the plant I hadn’t studied yet, not click through all the plants again :( Also, the intro radio dialogue can’t be skipped - I tend to place toxic tags on the right and non-toxic on the left. But in the hint book, for the first two plants, the toxic tag is on the left and the non-toxic one is on the right. Since there are only two tags, I didn’t immediately realize they’re color-coded - If I make a mistake on a plant I’ve already studied, I lose the knowledge I had gained about it
Overall: the idea is great, and the game is very polished for a jam. But if you plan to develop it further, please take my experience into account. Thanks for the game!
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The art is really good, but the gameplay relies mostly on replaying multiple times to figure out which tag belongs to which group. It lacks some kind of guidance or hints.
Also, the intro can’t be skipped, and since you end up retrying often, it becomes frustrating not being able to jump straight back into the game.
I agree with the others here: the art and music were great!
I enjoyed the game. The concept is very original and interesting. During gameplay, I was confused by some of the plants' characteristics, as some that I know aren't dangerous in real plants were in the game, and vice versa. Initially, many things didn't make sense to me, so I had to play by trial and error (and note-taking).
The art is very beautiful, and that psychedelic feel is a very emblematic feature. Its saturated colors also make the atmosphere strong and striking.
The music and sound effects go very well with the game and allow for concentration on choosing the characteristics.
I managed to reach the end (theoretically), but I didn't get any other plants in my survival notes. Is there any way to get the other 5?
Congratulations to everyone!
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Really cool game, beautiful graphics and mechanics, great job!