''Plant Tycoon'' is a

life simulation game Life simulation games form a subgenre of simulation video games in which the player lives or controls one or more virtual characters (human or otherwise). Such a game can revolve around "individuals and relationships, or it could be a simulation ...

about the breeding and growing of

plants Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ...

, published by independent developer

Last Day of Work Last Day of Work (LDW) is a video game developer specializing in casual games. The company developed real-time "Virtual Life" simulation games including Fish Tycoon, Plant Tycoon, Virtual Families and the Virtual Villagers series for platforms ...

Plot

Players take on the role of the owner of a plant nursery, who must breed and care for more than 500 different kinds of

exotic plants An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there ...

, all the while attempting to keep the plant store economically viable long enough to achieve the ultimate objective: breeding the six Magic Plants.Jinny Gudmundsen,
'Plant Tycoon' teaches genetics in greenhouse sim
" ''USA Today'' (9/27/2007). Along the way, they can catch

insects Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of j ...

which are then added to a kind of "trophy" room, the duplicates of which can earn the player a significant amount of

cash In economics, cash is money in the physical form of currency, such as banknotes and coins. In bookkeeping and financial accounting, cash is current assets comprising currency or currency equivalents that can be accessed immediately or near-imm ...

References

External links

* * http://www.gamezebo.com/2007/09/10/plant-tycoon-review/ * http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=887 * http://www.gamershell.com/pc/plant_tycoon/review.html {{Portal bar, Video games 2007 video games Life simulation games MacOS games Palm OS games Video games about insects Video games about plants Video games developed in the United States Windows games Windows Mobile Professional games Single-player video games Last Day of Work games