History VideoGame / Grow

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** ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191019033446/http://www.eyezmaze.com/jp/2014/09/grow_cube_omega.html Grow Cube Omega]]'': A Japan exclusive phone game that adds a mini-game on a second cube where you must evolve ten colored birds.

* CartoonBomb: Colored, round cartoon-ish bombs appear in a few games, like ''Grow RPG'' and ''Grow Park''.

** ''Grow Cinderella'' where like in the original tale, you must help Cinderalla prepare herself for the ball. Unlike the original tale, there is no indication that Cinderella's evil stepmother and stepsisters exists.

* PandaingToTheAudience: [[spoiler: In ''Grow RPG'' there is an hidden solution where the hero can get a panda suit]].

** The Rotta/Pierre is a creature that changes completely depending if it's daytime or nighttime. Its "Rotta" form, which it takes during the day, is a blob monster that can shape-shift. Its "Pierre" form, which it takes during the night, is a round bat-like creature that splits in two if it's tapped by a hammer after which a Onky comes out of it. Gluing the halves back brings back the Pierre to life but changes its colors.

** Every Onky the player uses in ''Grow Valley'' and ''Grow Clay'' looks the same except for their color.
** Most Tonties look the same except for their skin and eye color.

** The jero and the monsters from ''Grow RPG'' have health metters represented by [[HeartsAreHealth hearts]].

** The first mini-Grow part with the Sun Boy in ''Grow Maze'' is a full hommage to ''Grow nano vol.2'', with the same character, and the same objects to be put in the same order. This takes place in a different context however so what happen after you win is different.

* LevelAte: ''Grow Maze'' have a button that turn the south-west part of the maze in graham crackers and chocolate bars.

** ''Grow RPG'' uses this trope for the hero and monsters with [[HeartsAreHealth hearts]].
** The sick Onky from ''Grow nano vol.3'' have a health bar that deplete in the intro, the goal is to heal him which fills it up.
** There's a variant in ''Grow Cannon'', rather than a life meter to deplete, the sleeping Onky have a "sleeping meter". Once it's empty, he wakes up.

* TooDumbToLive: Trying to ride a dog ''made of fire'' may result in burning yourself and your clothes. [[spoiler: The Sun Boy learns it the hard way.]]

* {{Shopkeeper}}: A Tontie serves as a shopkeeper in ''Grow Maze''.

** ''Grow Island'' and ''Grow Valley'' are advertissment for the Shibaura Institute of Technology.

** ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191019033446/http://www.eyezmaze.com/jp/2014/09/grow_cube_omega.html Grow Cube Omega]]'': A Japan exclusive phone game that adds a mini-game on a second cube where you must make ten colored birds evolve.

* {{Irony}}: If the horse-like creature from ''Grow Cinderella'' turns back into a mouse and the brown Onky is awake, he will chase the mouse with a newspaper, even he's himself a transformed mouse.

* TheMaze: ''Grow Maze'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naturally]].

* NinjaProp: In ''Grow Tower'', you can use a cannon to launch a creature into one of your already used-item selection panels. This gives an extra turn for the items to evolve and interact.

** ''Grow Tower'' where the objective is turn the sun on like if it was a lamp.

** ''Grow Nano vol.3'' where you must heal a Onky who got sick by natural cause.

* OurGiantsAreBigger: You build a giant human-like foot after completing it's skeleton in ''Grow Cannon'', but you can't see the rest of it's body assuming it has any.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The King from ''Grow RPG'' attack the dragon himself when his guards are defeated, he also save the hero by helping him to kill said dragon.
* RPGElements: ''Grow RPG'' isn't really an RPG. It's a ''Grow'' game with a fantasy setting and characters who have hitpoint meters and the hero have an inventory and a money counter.

* SnotBubble: Both Onkies from ''Grow Cinderella'' will crouch and have one before falling asleep if they don't interact with anything after being placed.

* SolidClouds: In ''Grow Ornament'' a Onky can go on a cloud which make it move and drop snow.

* SugarBowl: Most of the game worlds.
* SwallowedWhole: The lake creature from ''Grow Cannon'' eat a big fruit that way.

* CartoonBomb: ''Grow RPG'' have a tree that produce pink cartoon bombs like they were fruits.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: The lava in ''Grow Island'' doesn't burn the forest it pass through.
* CraniumChase: Sometime, Onkies may lose their head who rolls a bit away when falling so their body have to get it back.

* MythologyGag: ''Grow Maze'' takes place in a white maze, just like the early version of the Eyezmaze website.

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are many different kind of dragons in the grow games:
** The 3rd enemy you face in ''Grow RPG'' is a purple dragon with [[FacelessEye a single eye on his face]] and who evolved from a slime, to a cyclop, to what it is.
** A path of ''Grow Ver.1'' as you make a eastern black and white dragon with a cubic body.
** The secret path of [[spoiler: ''Grow Ver.3'' have a little alien with dragon wings who become a eastern dragon made of fire after eating a plate of food.]]
** The lake creature from ''Grow Cannon'' turn into a fat red dragon after eating a fruit at night.

* ''[[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2010/08/grow_valley.html Grow Valley]]'': a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Grow Island'', and commissioned by the same university. 7 items.

!!The series currently consists of:

* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2009/06/grow_ver3_remake.html#monster Grow ver.3]] (Was renamed ''Grow Planet'' on the HTML version): The original ''Grow'' game, set on a red ball, remade to include a secret second ending. 12 items - the most in the series.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/RPG/index.html Grow RPG]]: The second in the series. Fantasy-themed, with RPG elements, but does not play like an RPG. 8 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2005/09/grow_cube.html#monster Grow Cube]]: Third game in the series, set on a big cube made of smaller cubes. 10 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2006/12/grow_ver1.html#monster Grow ver.1]]: A departure from the classic ''Grow'' gameplay. You have a ball. What will you do with it? Choose between 2 items to advance to the next stage.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2006/06/grow_ver2.html#monster Grow ver.2]] (was renamed ''Grow Jungle'' in the cellphones versions): Place geometrical shapes who turn into strange woodland creatures. 6 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2009/01/grow_tower.html#monster Grow Tower]]: Build a tower so you can turn the sun back on. 5 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2007/09/grow_island_game.html Grow Island]]: Construct an island utopia. Commissioned by the Shibaura Institute of Technology, which is why all the panels are related to science and engineering. 8 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2010/08/grow_valley.html Grow Valley]]: a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Grow Island'', and commissioned by the same university. 7 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2011/01/grow_cannon.html Grow Cannon]]: Wake up a sleeping man by firing a cannon at different plots of land to evolve them. Seven locations, ten shots.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2013/03/grow_maze_game.html Grow Maze]]: Navigate a maze and combine items at various points to bypass obstacles and reach the end square. Contain some ''Grow'' sections with either 2 or 3 items with always the same 6 items you collect.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2014/02/grow_clay.html Grow Clay]]: An [[AdvertisementGame advergame]] for TECROSS a Japanese company. Unique in that the game is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin done in clay]]. Have 4 levels with gradually more items for each.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2015/08/grow_park.html Grow Park]]: Originally android exclusive. You construct a park. Like most grow games there are alternate scenarios which play out if you get the wrong order, unlike earlier grow games once your park is grown, you see little people playing in your park. There are 150 in total, so you have far more incentive to see wrong combinations than you otherwise would have. 6 items.

* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2006/07/grow_nano_ver0.html#monster Grow nano ver.0]]: A departure from the classic ''Grow'' gameplay. While keeping the "growing" theme, this is a mouse-clicking test of reflexes and memory.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2006/08/grow_nano_vol1.html#monster Grow nano vol.1]]: Another departure from the usual style; this is a PixelHunt version of the previous game. By popular demand, later games returned to the original format.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2007/02/grow_nano_vol2.html#monster Grow nano vol.2]] (was renamed ''Grow Sun Boy'' in the HTML version): Help someone rescue a baby bird. 3 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2008/02/grow_nano_vol3.html#monster Grow nano vol.3]] (was renamed ''Grow Recovery'' in the cellphones version): Help a sick guy to recover. 6 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2011/05/grow_nano4.html Grow nano vol.4]] (was renamed ''Grow Figure'' in the HTML version): In early 2011 a fan made the creator an [=EyezMaze=] ceramic figurine, and this game has you create the figurine. 4 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2005/12/grow_ornament.html#monster Grow Ornament]]: [[ChristmasEpisode Decorate a Christmas tree.]] 6 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2016/10/grow_cinderella.html#monster Grow Cinderella]]: Based on Literature/{{Cinderella}}'s tale. This game have a mechanic where every items turn into differents things when you place them. 6 items.
* [[http://www.eyezmaze.com/sp/2018/06/grow_comeback.html Grow Comeback]]: Help a retired hero fight a monster one last time. 6 items.

* BigBad:
** The demon guy from ''Grow RPG''. Notable in that this is one of the few games that features an antagonist at all.
** The purple monster in ''Grow Comeback''.

* BigRedDevil: The BigBad of ''Grow RPG'' is red and looks like a demon.

** The purple dragon and the BigBad from ''Grow RPG''.

* StabTheSky: The hero from ''Grow RPG'' points his sword to the sky [[spoiler: when he beats the BigBad.]]

* VillainBeatingArtifact: Distilled down to its essence in ''Grow RPG'': in addition to the best sword and armor, you've got to have the special blue orb that knocks the BigBad's health meter down to where you can actually trade hits with it.

* SmartAnimalInconvenientInstincts: It's hard to pin how smart it is but the green mouse from ''Grow Maze'' wears clothes, use a bag and fit a thief archetype giving it human-like sentience, yet it's still attracted by a cheese like a normal mouse would and gets trapped by the Ixal creature that was connected to the cheese. Later in the game, the mouse is enjoying a hot water pond like an human would.

* StorybookEpisode: ''Grow Cinderella''.

* TransformingMecha: The ''awesomely cool'' construction mecha from ''Grow Island''.

* WreathedInFlames: The fire dog from ''Grow Maze''.

* {{Mummy}}: The [[spoiler: brown Onky turns into a mummyin ''Grow Cinderella'''s secret ending.]]

* {{Mummy}}: [[spoiler: The brown Onky turns into one in ''Grow Cinderella'''s secret ending.]]

* PixelHunt: The entirety of ''Grow nano vol.1''. Thankfully, it is not a hard game.

* RetiredBadass: The hero at the start of ''Grow Comeback''.

* SantaClaus: [[spoiler:He appears when you win ''Grow Ornament'']].

** Onkies have this ability in some games.

** ''Grow Cannon'' has a different kind of gameplay where instead of directly placing objects, the player must use a canon to fire in different spots and interact with the scenery.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: The child in the intro of ''Grow Comeback'' turns out to be one the the hero's supporters when you win the game.]]

* ChristmasEpisode: ''Grow Ornament'' where the goal is to decorate a Christmas tree.

* CombiningMecha: [[spoiler: All the creatures stick to each others and form a bigger robot-like one in the ending of ''Grow ver.2''.]]

* DarkhorseVictory: GROW Race has the [[spoiler:blue fish on the unicycle that crashed at the beginning take the victory after the red and yellow ones [[ItMakesSenseInContext fly off into space to continue their personal race as rivals rather than continuing the official one.]]]]

* DungeonShop: There is a shop in ''Grow Maze''.

** ''Grow nano vol.2'' ahve a combination that shows a code for an other game called ''Vanilla''.

* FacelessEye: There are several one-eyed creatures in the games, the most prominent are the Tonties.

* LethalLavaLand: [[spoiler: The secret ending of ''Grow Ver. 3'']].

* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: The game world in ''Grow RPG''.

* BlueIsHeroic: The hero from Grow RPG wears a blue armor.

* TheDragon: Before the hero of ''Grow RPG'' can face the demonic BigBad, he has to defeat the latter's literal dragon.

* TheBlank: The Onkies, [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter but they're still pretty cute even without faces.]]