Hey, thanks Snug Dev! Glad you liked it!
Curious: what games does it remind you of, if any?
We're wanting to get closer to a colony sim, so are currently working on the latter option you mentioned, but with mycelium. So as you grow "Blooms" (traps, walls, resource boosters, etc.) in your garden, your mycelium network expands and an army of fungi workers rally to help you defend the Grove...
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