Press kit
Grow a fungus farm in the dark.
Placement is everything.
Spore Cellar is an idle farming game about where you plant things. Every fungus has its own rule: moss speeds up whatever touches it, a Black Truffle only grows once it's buried on all four sides, and Glowcaps triple their output at night. Plant them in the right spots and the cellar grows spores on its own. When it's ready, you release the bloom, keep a permanent bonus, and start a bigger cellar.
- Developer
- MonVeri Gaming (Monveri LLC)
- Genre
- Idle / incremental, placement puzzle
- Platforms
- Windows, Mac and Linux on Steam · iPhone and iPad · Android
- Demo
- Free on Steam: the first 6 of 16 fungi (coming soon)
- Release date
- Coming soon
- Price on Steam
- $5.99 USD
- Steam page
- Link coming soon
- Press contact
- [email protected]
How it plays
Tap, plant, ripen, release
You start with one Button Cap in a 3 × 3 cellar and a big mother cap to tap for spores. From there the game is a cycle you keep tightening.
- Plant and arrange. Buy fungi from the spawn shelf and place them on the beds. Moving them is free, so you can keep rearranging for a better layout.
- Ripen. Each level doubles a fungus's output and earns spore essence. Every level ripened also has a small chance to mutate it Albino, Azure or Golden.
- Look after the cellar. Beetles crawl in and chew on your fungi: shoo them for a reward. Puffballs swell and burst for a big payout. A 3-minute day and night cycle changes what grows best.
- Dig wider. The cellar grows from 3 × 3 up to 11 × 11, one ring of plots at a time.
- Release the bloom. This resets the beds for a permanent bonus to everything. The bonus grows with every release.
- Spend essence on the spore tree. Seven branches of permanent upgrades: growth, bigger cellars, mutation odds, pests, automation, taps, and holding to tap.
The demo
6 fungi, the whole loop
The free demo has the first 6 fungi, up to the Black Truffle, a cellar you can dig out to 5 × 5, and everything else in the loop: ripening, mutations, beetles, night and releases. Its spore tree has the inner 19 of the 44 upgrades, with the rest shown locked. Each fungus comes with a real fact about the mushroom it's based on.
Button Cap
Dependable. Grows anywhere.
Cellar Moss
Every fungus touching it grows 30% faster.
Mycelium Thread
Makes nothing. Ripen it to connect: up and down, then sideways, then diagonals. Fungi it reaches get a bonus for every thread in its network.
Puffball
Swells over 25s. Tap it to burst 40s of its output.
Glowcap
Triple output at night.
Black Truffle
Only grows buried: all four sides touching fungus or the wall.
Demo progress is saved separately and doesn't carry over to the full game. Players start a fresh cellar there.
The full game
10 more fungi, and stranger rules
Morel Spire
All fungi +3% per species in the beds.
Elder Bracket
+3% per minute planted, up to ×4.
Earthstar
Loves open ground: +60% for each empty plot beside it.
Fairy Ring
Every fungus in the 8 plots around it, diagonals too, gets +25%.
Chanterelle
Double output when no other Chanterelle shares its row or column.
Ghost Mycena
Only grows at night. Glowcaps in the 8 plots around it, diagonals too, grow twice as fast.
Cordyceps
Lures beetles and keeps growing under them. Shooing one off it pays 5×.
Lion's Mane
+8% for each level of the fungi in the 8 plots around it.
Reishi
Every other fungus in its row and column gets +15%.
Honey Fungus
+4% for every fungus in its patch (all fungi joined to it side by side).
Screenshots
Screenshots
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Good moments to catch
- The first buried truffle. Boxing in a Black Truffle on all four sides is the first real layout puzzle, and its output jumps once it's done.
- Nightfall. The cellar turns blue, the music gets darker, and a bed of Glowcaps triples.
- The first release. The beds reset, the mother cap grows a new form, and the spore tree opens.
- A beetle. It chews on a fungus until you shoo it. Leave it too long and it may leave a blight behind.
- A mutation. Rare, with its own sound. A Golden fungus makes three times the spores.
- Space
- Tap the mother cap
- Drag
- Move a fungus, or swap two
- Shift-click, drag
- Select several fungi; arrow keys move them together
- Ctrl/Cmd + A
- Select every fungus
- Esc
- Stop planting or cancel a move
- F11 · CtrlCmdF
- Fullscreen on Windows and Linux · on a Mac
The game pauses on the title screen and the Menu, so you can stop and talk. Sound and music can be turned off separately in Settings if you want clean voice-over.
Art
Logos and art
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Get in touch
Keys, interviews or questions: [email protected]