Eufloria (PC) (2009)

Overview: A strategy game where the player expands and colonizes space using plants.

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20190526 Snapshot:
Steam Game Time (Eufloria): 5 hours

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20190526:
Today I played Eufloria HD as part of the Steam Spring Cleaning Event "Blast from the Past": "Play [one of] the first game[s] you added to your Steam account. If you completed this task last year, play the second game on your Steam account."* Looking at a thread detailing the changes from Eufloria to Eufloria HD, I decided to classify Eufloria HD (PC) (2014) under Eufloria (PC) (2009).

Steam Game Time (Eufloria HD): 41 minutes

*There was a choice of five titles: Iron Grip: Warlord, Eufloria, Doc Clock, VVVVVV, and Eufloria HD.

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Thoughts:
Pros:
+ Relaxing music; relaxing gameplay
+ The basics of the game are spread across several levels; easy to digest game mechanics
+ Calming and beautiful art style

Neutral:
~ The game doesn't allow for selecting which plants to send from a planet (when a planet has plants which originated from various planets); the player must take this into account and behave accordingly (when trying to be efficient).

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Summary:
This game is surprisingly relaxing considering the primary objective is to colonize other planets.

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20120208 Snapshot:
Steam Game Time (Eufloria): 5.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 5h 56m (Playnite)
Last Played: 20120208 Steam Game Time (Eufloria HD): 41 minutes (cumulative game time) / 41m (Playnite)
Last Played: 20190526

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20240418:
I decided to try and play Eufloria (since technically it is the game to play based on my current methodology of going through my backlog). While i was able to load a save file which had the first ten levels completed, I went ahead and replayed the first three levels to refresh on the idea of the gameplay. Afterwards I tried to jump into the eleventh level. Unfortunately, I felt overwhelmed with trying to come up with the appropriate strategy and I didn't quite understand the defenses in place on the enemy asteroids. Overall, I can see the game being fun, but I definitely lack the patience for such an RTS. Note, however, that it's possible I would enjoy Eufloria HD (the slow pace of Eufloria is initially not bad but can grow to become mildly annoying.

Overall, I'd give Eufloria a 3.0 out of 5.

Steam Game Time (Eufloria): 6.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 0.7 hours (session game time)

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Eufloria (PC) (2009)
Eufloria HD (PC) (2014)

Relevant Links:
Eufloria Website
Eufloria (Wikipedia.org)
Eufloria (PC) (MetaCritic.com)
Eufloria HD (Steam Store Page)