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Seedlings
An atmospheric 2D puzzle platformer made using real photos and videos from New Zealand's native forest. Become a seed that can possess different plant creatures with unique abilities. Solve the obstacles in your way to discover the secrets of the Seedlings.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“Its like 90 minutes long and extremely soulful! Awesome game!”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Good hour game. Probably the best propaganda game for any country made thus far. Really fun puzzles and love the artwork. A little fuzzy on the messaging; I don't really know what it wanted to say. Still, worth a shot”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Tiny leaves reach for light A quiet world waits to grow Hope takes root below”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Trading Cards, Badges, Emoticons & Backgrounds
Steam Community Items have now been enabled for Seedlings, so I've created a collection of artwork, trading cards, badges, emoticons, profile backgrounds, and a few fun extras. The animated items, inc
Seedlings 1 year anniversary update. Added 'Chapters'
Hey everyone, thanks again for the support for Seedlings this last year. It's crazy to think that a year has passed already. The most requested feature is finally here, A chapter select system you can
Seedlings - added levels, new languages and other visual fixes.
Seedlings update for 5th May 2024. Rearranged some levels with new biome artwork so the level difficulty rises consistently. Added a new level to showcase the bouncing on box mechanic. A lot were gett
Freeplay Awards 2024 - "Across the ditch" nomination for Seedlings!
First post of 2024 ːsteamhappyː. A big thanks to the judges at Freeplay awards for choosing Seedlings as a finalist for the "across the ditch" award. More info on the Freeplay website I guess I'll be
Update notes for 26 September
Fixed a place where you could get stuck after launching seed at a dragonfly A few minor visual tweaks
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Atmospheric · Nature · Puzzle-Platformer · Adventure · Casual · Puzzle · Indie · Singleplayer · Realistic · Relaxing · Controller · 2.5D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Swedish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 9 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel i5-4210U or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3 supported, 2GB RAM available to GPU Storage: 750 MB available space