Games Like Carbon Conservatory

Glass-9 is one of humanity's last botanical refuges, and it is running out of air. Operations calls the shortage an acceptable variance. You are Silvan, a maintenance worker with a fern grown into one arm, sent into the neglected sectors to turn the valves by hand.

The things still tending those sectors are not plants any more. And they shoot first.

Carbon Conservatory is a top-down bullet hell with the bones of a Souls-like: a hand-built world of sealed routes and shortcuts, breathing beds to rest at, bosses that punish carelessness, and one combat verb at its heart. Parry the growth's own fire back into it, and make it bloom.

Parry. Seed. Rupture. Bloom.

Everything is a gun

Both sides of the fight are armed. Your barrels are living grafts, and every one you find is rolled, with its own grade, rarity and traits. There is no ammunition, only heat. Run the sink hot, then purge it with a quick directional sequence for an overload that hits harder, or fumble it and jam. Dash through the fire on recharging charges. Graze rounds to build adrenaline. Every husk answers with a pattern of its own, and every pattern is telegraphed: you can always see it coming.

A refuge that remembers

Psychedelic botanical horror

Copper machinery furred with moss, glass domes cracked by roots, orchids blooming out of boilers and a dark lit only by what still glows. Your ring companion Mica can model the shortage. Somebody still has to walk into the Allocation Chamber and turn the valve. Best played with a controller.