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Sanogumi Opens Steam Page for Primary Bloom, a Garden Sim Set After AI Replaces Handwork

Sanogumi published the Steam store page for Primary Bloom on October 30.

Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.

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Sanogumi is building a garden sim around the premise that automation has removed the act of cultivation itself, so the store page arrives with the theme and the loop already fixed rather than a genre label alone.

Sanogumi Opens Steam Page for Primary Bloom, a Garden Sim Set After AI Replaces Handwork

The pixel-art side-scroller is set decades after a technological revolution in which AI is accepted and handwork has vanished, with plants and animals replaced by machines that copy their looks. Its lead, Zania Twilight, grows flowers by hand and posts them to an in-game social network. The game is due in 2027 and will be playable at Tokyo Game Dungeon 14 on October 31.

Zania's room holds three spaces side by side: display, cultivation, and rest. She walks between them, tilling soil and adding water and fertilizer in the cultivation space, then posts the grown flowers to an in-game social network from the room's computer.

Looking out the window shows what those posts did to the city. Two other characters share the room's scenes: Luka Morfonia, a relic dealer who handles objects the world has lost, and Bell, an assist AI robot that moves and shows emotion like a person. Their exchanges are part of the draw.

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