Grow Home Is Heading onto the PS4

Grow Home is making its way onto the PS4, and to celebrate, it’ll participate in Sony’s new Vote to Play feature, where PlayStation Plus members can vote between three unreleased games for the one they want for free. Starting on August 13 at 8:30 a.m. PDT, you can put in your vote for Grow Home, and if it wins you’ll be able to get it at no cost for the full month of September. If one of the other valiant contenders takes home the votes, Grow Home will still be available at a discount for PlayStation Plus subscribers.

Cast your vote any time between August 13 and August 24 at 8:30 a.m. PDT, and the results will appear immediately after the voting ends. Then, just a week later, you’ll be able to download your free game. All you have to do to vote is log onto your PS4 with your SEN account and look for the Vote to Play link under “What’s New,” “Notifications” or PlayStation Store.

Grow Home began as an experimental tech demo exploring procedural animation, but it just had too much spirit to leave it be. Soon enough, a tiny team of eight people within Ubisoft Reflections was working to turn this charming little tech demo into the full-fledged game that released on PC in February.

Grow Home

As the lovable B.U.D. (Botanical Utility Droid), you explore the skies using the power of the Star Plant, a giant beanstalk-like plant that B.U.D. can grow and direct as he makes his way from the planet’s surface up to his mother ship. Climb your way around the world of Grow Home as you explore the many floating islands the fill the sky. Grow Home is available right now on PC for $7.99.

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Grow Home

Grow Home

Grow Home

Release date — February 4, 2015
Developer — Ubisoft Reflections
In Grow Home you play BUD (Botanical. Utility. Droid), a robot on a mission to find the Star Plant and save his planet. Discover a strange open-world: a planet of floating islands, with precipitous drops, caves and waterfalls to navigate, all rendered in a minimalist but beautiful art style. Grow the giant Star Plant and use your unique climbing abilities to reach ever higher ground, but be careful as you ascend because one wrong move and it’s a long way down!

ESRB Rating: Everyone
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Anne Lewis began her career as an editor at PlayStation: The Official Magazine, where she worked under former UbiBlog editor Gary Steinman. Now she's a lone wolf, prowling around her corner of the office and slowly descending into madness. Alas. When Anne isn’t writing about games, she's alphabetizing her comic book collection or shooting at stuff with a bow. Follow her on Twitter: @BDRAnneLewis