Grow Home Critic Reviews

Grow Home isn't awfully deep, nor does it provide any real story to hook you, but this game taps into the pleasure centers of seeing something and going there... however you may choose to do so.

Grow Home is utterly lovely. It’s welcoming and sweet, and its simplicity is as elegant as BUD is adorably clumsy. Little experimental treats like this are worth a dozen Far Creeds and Assassin’s Crys.

Despite its short length, Grow Home stands out as one of the most refreshing and original titles to have come out of Ubisoft in recent years.

Hopping through the floaty gravity and feel-good physics of Grow Home is as pleasant a gaming experience as they come.

Clever, pretty and endearing.

It's relatively short, but it oozes charm and personality.

Grow Home is an interesting surprise from a publisher who got used to mismanaging its own IPs. This platformer-like-no-other has everything going for it and for a very low price tag. You can easily give it a try.

Ubisoft Reflections does highlight, staying small, with a concept that is short, but always enjoyable. The first surprise of the year conquers our hearts.

Grow Home is a great "indie" game, even though it has a big publisher behind it. The thing is it does deliver things we only expect from indie games, like new mechanic, fresh experiences and light-hearted fun.

It's delightful to look at and even more delightful to explore. If Ubisoft wants to restore some goodwill with core audiences again, releasing lovely little titles like this is a step in the right direction.

As great as Grow Home can be, there is a bit of a tedious process in climbing a 2000m beanstalk and not falling.

Grow Home takes your breath away... but just for a few hours. As long as it keeps growing, it's a nice, little and smart game. Then it suddenly stops.

If indie gaming is just a state of mind then Ubisoft is getting increasingly good at encouraging it in their developers, especially in this novel plant-based platformer.

While its intoxicated physics can lead to occasional despair, the overwhelming joy of the whole experience is a strong tonic, over the handful of hours it takes to get through, I couldn’t help maintaining a smile.

Phallic imagery and sore wrists don’t stop this from being uniquely charming. Definitely worth a few quid and a few hours of your time.

There are no deep story and complex gameplay mechanisms in Grow Home, but playing the game is just a lot of fun.

You should be left feeling bubbly after playing Grow Home. It's not perfect in execution, but given it was never meant to be a commercial product, it's easy to see why Ubisoft couldn't resist turning it into one - it's a bright, charming and original little game that has an irresistible sense of happiness to it.

It is great to see this experiment by Reflections make it as a game. We love experimenting in Grow Home, which means exploring the environment, figuring out what plants need and checking out heights only an assassin could dream of.

Grow Home ticks all the right boxes for fun and escapism on the PC in this enjoyable arcade sandbox title.

Grow Home is a welcome new addition to the platforming genre thanks to the new ways it asks of players to control the character and think about the way they should traverse the world.