A tree falls in the woods. The once proud oak softens and decays into forest mulch. Amidst the decay, a new cycle of life begins. The damp and crumbling log provides ideal conditions for spore germination, eldritch-like strands emerging to colonise the nutrient-rich environment. The further this Mycelium spreads, the more nutrients it gathers in preparation for fruiting and the emergence of mushrooms across this rotting body. Mushrooms erupt across the log in their disquieting beauty, releasing new spores so the cycle may begin again.
Mycelia, the first game from new publishers Split Stone Games, puts players in control of this cycle, as they compete to propagate their mycelia and grow the best mushroom kingdom in this fungal take on the area-control genre. Ahead of Mycelia’s Kickstarter campaign, I went…
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