Grow up is a good open exploration platformer.

+ Charming style (character, flora, fauna)
+ Great world - a freely and fully explorable entire planet with different biome themes and extensive verticality
+ Diverse flora with utility, not necessary but possible to use and support
+ Diverse mechanics
+ Good progression through collectibles and unlocks
+ Good amount of content
* A lot of verticality
* Story playthrough ~ 4 hours 30 min, considerably more to complete everything ; Main + extra ~ 5 hours 30 min; 100 % 10 hours
- Messy controls and camera controls - both are fine for the most part, but especially once you have the glider with boosting it becomes messy
- Suboptimal guidance

Controls and camera were fine and acceptable for the most part. But messy and annoying when climbing on ceilings and when flying. Sometimes I was boosting down instead of up for unclear reasons. Sometimes it's neither clear nor as intended which direction you fly towards when changing movement or or camera directions.

I found the guidance at first too much but then too little. Some guidance unlocked before its time. Even long after objectives had been completed, random guidance (side dialogue) showed up for them.

Grow up captivated me when I started playing. I am recommending it despite its excusable flaws. There's a lot of enjoyable things to explore.

Grow Up is the follow up to 2015s Grow Home. I got these games as a bundle and while I recommend you play them in release order, there's no wrong way to play them.

Grow Up is like Grow Home but more. Mechanically this game features the same climbing, scanning, exploring as Grow Home. But there's a much larger world with biomes, more movement abilities and the challenges littered all over the world. And we can go to the moon!

I really enjoyed a lot of the mechanics in this game. You can roll up into a ball and fling yourself to other platforms, which is super satisfying to do correctly. You can plant seeds to grow helpful plants. And gliding around this world to observe all the plants you sprouted is a good look back onto your journey in this world.

This game inspired in me the same kind of joy and serenity as Grow Home. I love this and highly recommend it. It's a brief experience that's well worth the money.

Does everything the first game does but better. A perfect sequel