Land of Mushrooms

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1-2 Competitive (Local)

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Review:

Land of Mushrooms is a Puzzle game released in 2024 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. In this game, players drop mushrooms into a pot, trying to ensure like mushrooms touch each other, transforming the pair into one larger mushroom, trying to keep this up as long as possible until the pot fills up. If this sounds familiar to you, it should, because this is basically just Suika Game with mushrooms. Still, as I always say, there’s nothing wrong with a game being a copycat as long as it’s a good copycat, so is Land of Mushrooms a good copycat?

Not particularly, no.

Suika Game was already a pretty shallow Puzzle Game, and Land of Mushrooms makes it worse with odd, irregular shapes that the game does a poor job indicating to the player their size until they’re dropped, upon which they grow to their full size. Players are only given a scant few seconds before they’re forced to drop it too, giving them very little time to line up the drop where they want it.

The presentation here is at least decent enough, with appealing, colorful cartoony 2D visuals… though I would argue not as appealing as what was in Suika Game. This is backed by a relaxed soundtrack that would work for the relaxed tone of the game if the pace of the game wasn’t overly fast like it is.

Overall, I just don’t see any reason to get Land of Mushrooms instead of Suika Game unless you found Suika Game too easy and wanted something tougher, but even then the frustrating issues Land of Mushrooms has make it clearly inferior to the game it’s copying. For most players, I recommend you skip this one.

tl;dr – Land of Mushrooms is a Puzzle Game that has you dropping Mushrooms into a pot in hopes of combining similar mushrooms into larger ones. In other words, this is basically Suika Game but with mushrooms. Unfortunately, it has numerous issues that make it artificially difficult, and it just can’t compare with the game it’s shamelessly copying. Get Suika Game instead, if you’re going to get either of them.

Grade: C-

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This game has been nominated for one or more of eShopperReviews 2024 Game Awards:

Runner-Up: Laziest Copycat

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