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Grow Home cover art

Grow Home

Reflections, a Ubisoft Studio · Infogrames · 2015-02-04

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Nov 10, 2015 (Linux), Sep 02, 2015 (PlayStation 4), Feb 04, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.

Grow Home is an Adventure, Casual and Indie game released in 2015 for $1.59, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment (92% of 5622 reviews).

3
playing now
92%
positive of 5.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
critic score (6 outlets, IGDB)
71/100
IGDB user rating (109 ratings)
2
Nexus mods (41 downloads)
3.99★
PlayStation Store rating (45,864 ratings)
4h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.59
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Grow Home is an adventure platform video game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. It was released for Microsoft Windows on February 4, 2015, and for PlayStation 4 on September 1, 2015. 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.

Trailer

Grow Home trailer thumbnail

GROW HOME LAUNCH TRAILER - AVAILABLE ON PC AND PS4

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 84 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~11/week).
  • · Review velocity down 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 141k–338k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,637 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$1.59-80%
Steam$1.59-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.19 at AllYouPlay (2020-11-21) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 29 of 40 observed days · $0.40 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
535320182026Week of 2018-01-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1002026-09-15 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 5 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 3 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 6 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 6 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 5 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 7 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 6 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 6 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 8 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 10 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
1912Jan 2015Aug 2026Jan 2015 — avg 2 · peak 7May 2015 — avg 27 · peak 59Sep 2015 — avg 29 · peak 79Jan 2016 — avg 57 · peak 225May 2016 — avg 49 · peak 207Sep 2016 — avg 29 · peak 84Jan 2017 — avg 25 · peak 78May 2017 — avg 13 · peak 31Sep 2017 — avg 11 · peak 33Jan 2018 — avg 19 · peak 53May 2018 — avg 12 · peak 28Sep 2018 — avg 10 · peak 23Jan 2019 — avg 10 · peak 30May 2019 — avg 7 · peak 20Sep 2019 — avg 7 · peak 24Jan 2020 — avg 8 · peak 24May 2020 — avg 8 · peak 20Sep 2020 — avg 6 · peak 18Jan 2021 — avg 7 · peak 21May 2021 — avg 5 · peak 14Sep 2021 — avg 4 · peak 15Jan 2022 — avg 6 · peak 23May 2022 — avg 5 · peak 23Sep 2022 — avg 3 · peak 13Jan 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15May 2023 — avg 7 · peak 20Sep 2023 — avg 3 · peak 14Jan 2024 — avg 4 · peak 15May 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Sep 2024 — avg 5 · peak 18Jan 2025 — avg 5 · peak 17May 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12Sep 2025 — avg 4 · peak 10Jan 2026 — avg 5 · peak 12May 2026 — avg 4 · peak 17Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 14
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$8.50$1.592015-01-302026-10-142015-01-30 — best price $7.682015-05-05 — best price $6.482015-07-14 — best price $6.382015-11-10 — best price $3.992016-02-28 — best price $2.722016-08-22 — best price $7.852017-03-30 — best price $3.992017-11-03 — best price $7.992018-04-23 — best price $8.502018-09-06 — best price $7.992019-02-08 — best price $2.002019-06-17 — best price $1.982019-09-30 — best price $2.052020-01-10 — best price $1.992020-03-09 — best price $1.992020-05-16 — best price $7.192020-07-16 — best price $6.842020-09-17 — best price $6.952020-11-22 — best price $7.992021-01-26 — best price $6.962021-04-12 — best price $6.962021-10-03 — best price $7.992022-05-23 — best price $7.992022-11-20 — best price $7.992023-02-04 — best price $7.992023-05-19 — best price $7.992023-08-27 — best price $7.992023-12-21 — best price $1.992024-05-03 — best price $1.992024-11-04 — best price $7.992025-04-01 — best price $7.992026-06-06 — best price $7.992026-10-14 — best price $1.59
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

46122026-05-30 — 36 pageviews2026-06-03 — 46 pageviews2026-06-07 — 31 pageviews2026-06-11 — 45 pageviews2026-06-15 — 27 pageviews2026-06-19 — 17 pageviews2026-06-23 — 30 pageviews2026-06-27 — 25 pageviews2026-07-01 — 37 pageviews2026-07-05 — 25 pageviews2026-07-09 — 28 pageviews2026-07-13 — 31 pageviews2026-07-17 — 25 pageviews2026-07-21 — 21 pageviews2026-07-25 — 21 pageviews2026-07-29 — 24 pageviews2026-08-02 — 38 pageviews2026-08-06 — 40 pageviews2026-08-10 — 28 pageviews2026-08-14 — 12 pageviews2026-08-18 — 25 pageviews2026-08-22 — 26 pageviews2026-08-26 — 41 pageviews2026-08-30 — 25 pageviews2026-09-03 — 23 pageviews2026-09-07 — 37 pageviews2026-09-11 — 22 pageviews2026-09-15 — 25 pageviews2026-09-19 — 25 pageviews2026-09-23 — 29 pageviews2026-09-27 — 28 pageviews2026-10-01 — 34 pageviews2026-10-05 — 24 pageviews2026-10-08 — 19 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

26
achievements tracked
60.7%
earned "Where's Warble?"
13.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2015-03-09 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)28,15515%19
Steam (Steam)13,58513%26

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CuteIndieShortCasualRobotsParkourPhysicsSandboxAdventureOpen World

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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