Games Like Mazetools Botany

Mazetools Botany is an interactive music game where plants grow through your play.

Plant Seeds based on music by artists and transform them into living audiovisual worlds through touch, movement, and exploration. Every interaction shapes how your plants grow, sound, and unfold.

No musical experience is required. Discover sounds, reshape them, and create your own musical expression. Somewhere between game, instrument, and a relaxing creative experience, your personal garden begins to grow.

Plant, Play, Grow

In Botany, every Seed grows into an audiovisual plant containing multiple playable instruments.

As you interact, plants evolve in form, color, and sound. Each play session creates a new variation, turning every Seed into your own interpretation of the original music.

Your plants remain in your garden, allowing you to return anytime, continue growing, and discover new musical ideas.

There is no right or wrong way to play. Botany is not about performance or perfection — it is about curiosity, exploration, and finding your own connection to music.

Music by Artists, Reimagined Through Play

Every Seed is created in collaboration with independent artists and based on licensed music.

Rather than simply listening, players are invited to interact with and reinterpret musical material in playful and unexpected ways. By purchasing Botany, you directly support the participating artists and help us continue developing new Seeds and experiences.

The Story Behind Botany

As part of the Mazetools development, Botany is the result of more than ten years of artistic research into music, interaction, and creative technology by Stephan Kloß and Jakob Gruhl at Ectoplastic.

The project began with a simple observation: many people love music but do not see themselves as musicians. Botany was created to offer a more intuitive and playful way into making and experiencing music.

During development, Stephan Kloß spent years observing natural environments around his hometown Halle an der Saale (Germany). These impressions became part of the visual language of Botany and inspired the idea of Sound Gardening. It’s making music as something organic that grows, changes, and can be cared for over time.