Bloom

The game

Bloom is a one-tap idle garden rendered as cottage cross-stitch: a fabric-weave linen canvas, petals that appear stitch by stitch as they grow, and a sampler border framing the whole bed. The sun walks the sky and clouds carry the rain; water, light and shade decide which seeds sprout, and your single tap drops one sunspot beam to wake a seed at exactly the right moment. Seedlings keep growing while you rest, and two mature neighbours left side by side can dream up a rare hybrid like the Teacup Rose. Fill the sampler album and the season is complete.

How to play

• Tap (or click) anywhere on the title card to begin the season.
• Tap a bare bed to open the thread basket, then tap one of the eight seed cards to sow it.
• Tap a sown seed to drop a sunspot beam on it — if its sun, water and shade pips glow at that moment, it sprouts.
• Watch the sun's path, the rain clouds and tall neighbours' shade: daisies want sun, bluebells and ferns want shade.
• Seedlings keep growing while idle; a finished bloom scores its value — Daisy 10 up to Sunflower 35.
• Grow two mature parents (e.g. Rose next to Daisy) side by side and a rare hybrid seed (+150) may appear — wake it too.
• Goal: stitch every flower of the sampler album. Five seedlings lost to frost, or beds left bare too long, ends the season.