What if Vampire Survivors was a chop-chop, dig-dig game? As in, as well as auto-attacking swarms of enemies with increasingly more powerful weaponry, you also plant crops, mine ore and catch fish? Well, Pesticide Not Required answers that question.
As with other Survivors-type/Bullet Heaven games, there’s the usual kill things, get XP, go up levels, spend points on mostly random updates, and repeat. Only here, in order to progress, you have to buy seeds at the end of each day and plant them, keeping them watered until they’re able to be harvested. At first this is tricky as you’ve limited tillable soil area, plus you’re dealing with all the baddies, but you can unlock helpers who can plant and water on your behalf, and you’re able to purchase extra planting spots too.
This addition set of chores really changes the gameplay a fair bit, as you have to specifically go to areas of your garden as well as just avoid baddies, or you won’t progress. Is it better than Vampire Survivors? No. But it’s well worth playing. Oh, and if you’re wondering, I class it as complete because I completed every scenario in every season.
