Firstly, I would like to preface this review with this:
To all the other reviewers out there giving this game a positive rating, trying to make funny jokes about how good the gameplay is, they're just trying to farm points. If you look at their playtime, most of them have less than an hour! You cannot truly experience the greatness of this game in a few minutes, an hour, or even 10. I have only just scratched the surface with my 100 hours, so I will be making constant updates as I play this game

My review:
Pros:
Tree Simulator 2022 is a game like no other. Every aspect has been carefully crafted to deliver the best possible player experience. You start out knowing nothing about the game (at least as long as you didn't look up any tutorials, which I STRONGLY suggest against doing, as it spoils the whole game). The lack of tutorial with only a few controls posted on the store page leads to exploratory gameplay. You adventure along with your tree, looking at the different magnificently crafted features. Each one just adds a whole new layer of complexity, a whole new path to go down. You will spend hours, lost, pouring over every aspect of this game, I warn you it's very addictive.
Cons:
Though the developer talks so much about the multiplayer features, they are highly overrated. At first it may seem good to have other trees there with you, adventuring with you along your way, but in the end it just distracts from the real gameplay, the interaction between you and your tree. In the end, it is much more immersive to play singleplayer, the one true, original mode.
And then there's the graphics. They are pretty good, and it's nice that they've gotten better, but I feel the same way about them as I do about the multiplayer. They honestly just take away from the game. True, there's a grayscale option, but who wants that? No one, that's who! No, what we really need is a black and white mode. Just black and white. No fancy 3Dness, just you and a black & white tree. This would truly make the graphics amazing

Stats broken down:
- Overall: 13/10
- Fun: 12/10
- Gameplay: 10/10
- Graphics: 9/10
- Story: 11/10
- Singleplayer: 16/10
- Multiplayer: 4/10
- Immersiveness: 14/10
- Difficulty Curve: 10/10

In the end:
Tree simulator 2022 was an amazing addition to this already spectacular franchise. There are some elements of it that could be improved, some features that could be added, and some features that just honestly take away from the game, but in the end the story, the difficulty curve, the funness and the gameplay outweigh all else, ending up with at 13/10 overall.

200 hr edit:
Wow it's been another 100 hours already! The time's gone by so fast! I feel like it was just yesterday that I had a mere 100 hours, and yet I have grown so much since then, as a person and as a tree. In terms of the gameplay, it has not gotten any worse, I could even go as far as to say it's gotten better. The story's always new and refreshing, and I've seen many UFOs at this point. It always seems like seeing UFOs will get old, yet each UFO always feels different. The creator of this game has done something beautiful with it, allowing each UFO to be it's own experience, it's own game in it of itself. I have now gotten through all of the settings in their basic forms, so now I'm working on going deep. I can confirm that this game has infinite replay-ability, and it never gets old. The amount of depth you can go into with each setting is utterly breathtaking. I can still confidently say that I have only just barely scratched the surface of this game with my 200 hours, so I will continue to update this review.

400 hr edit:
Oops, I was supposed to do another edit at 300, but I was just too distracted by Tree Simulator 2022's amazing gameplay to notice the time! Well, now that I've hit 400 hours it seem a good a time as any to write another update on this truly breathtaking, honestly addictive experience. I thought I had gotten through the basics of the settings at 200 hours, but boooyyyy was I wrong. I have now learned enough about this game to know that I haven't gotten through even 1% of what this game has to offer. I have now seen many more parts of this game, each one not closing off paths that I knew about, but instead opening up new paths, new alleyways to go down. New ways to play, new discoveries to make.
I can now confirm that I am fully immersed in Tree Simulator 2022's gameplay, everything about it just pulled me in and refuses to let me go. Everything is just perfect. I know I was critical of Multiplayer at first, but now that I'm getting into it, I'm really starting to understand and enjoy what it could mean for the over-all game. I think at first I was just overwhelmed at the new possibilities it could bring. It just made this whole new branch is the ever-growing tree of gameplay, one larger than any of the others. Now that I have gotten through 400 hours, however, I can now see why the creator added it. It just makes the game so different, that it almost would merit it's own game. Now that I've seen even just a tiny bit of what multiplayer can bring, though, I will now be trying to explore down that path a little before I go and experience the true, original, single-player, gameplay once again.

1k HOUR EDIT:
It's been 1k hours now, and Tree Simulator 2022 is still the best game I've ever played.
Firstly a few things to note: There's been a few updates, some of which I've liked, and some of which seem to have introduced bugs. Firstly, I love the idea of a tree timer in the top left corner. It really helped me, especially because I didn't really want to quit out of the app to check my time. I needed some way of knowing when to update this review, and honestly having to go back to steam every once in a while is annoying. The only thing I've found about it is that it seems to get an outdated time. I don't know why this is happening, but for me it's like 40 hours off. This wasn't too much of a problem, as I noticed it immediately and the difference hasn't changed, but it's slightly annoying.
There was also another update that seems to have done nothing, except for that now every ~100 hours, it will randomly set the time on and turn it to the max speed. This is very annoying for my immersion in the game, so I wish it could be fixed. Another bug I've been seeing for as long as I've been playing is that sometimes the resolution of the game will randomly change, and it's quite annoying.
Other than that, it's been fun. I've been playing a bunch of both singleplayer and multiplayer, switching between them every couple days. I've noticed that some trees have been leaveing (get it?) recently, and this has made me very sad. Some I thought were dedicated, but alas they had to go. I don't think it was because of the game though, it was probably just that they had to do something irl, whatever that means.
Game wise, it's been interesting. More UFOs (I think I'm starting to understand some hidden lore with them), and more tree watching. Some how the author has come up with a game that can be interesting even after the 1k hours mark, which is not something that can be said for just anyone. Like I said before, I'm even just now figuring out some hidden lore, I think there's a connection with the UFOs and another detail I noticed around the 900 hour mark. The past 100 hours have been dedicated to trying to figure out more details. It's super interesting looking into this lore, the author has done an excellent job with making surface level facts clear, but then adding small details in for the dedicated people like myself.

Alas it seems as though I've reached steam's review length limit, so I will be continuing this review in the comments.

The lore of this game is so great. i like want ot be tree.

there is not beginning
there is not end
there is just tree

Tree

The most amazing game I have ever experienced... I felt every emotion known to man. The moment I felt anger was when I realised their was no voice chat but that swiftly passed as I enjoyed the turbulent wind and of course my formal red tie swaying in the breeze (It doesn't sway in-game but it was very immersive all the same) best game on steam about trees hands down

To tree, or not to tree, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the roots to suffer
The branches and seeds of outrageous fortune,
Or to take limbs against a forest of troubles
And by opposing end them. To fall-to hibernate,
No more; and by a hibernation to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That bark is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To fall, to hibernate;
To hibernate, perchance to grow-ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have timbered off this mortal soil,
Must give us the pause-there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the vines and ivies of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud tree's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of woods, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When tree himself might its quietus make
With a bare thorn? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd jungle, from whose bourn
No tree returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than grow to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make shrubbery of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great rot and moment
With this regard their growth turn awry
And lose the name of flora.

I never truly believed a time in my life would come where I can finally become a tree.... Today was that day... I am a mighty oak amongst a forest of saplings and none shall chop me down.

Be a tree in rain
Be a tree in snow
Be a tree with music
Be a tree with tie
Be a tree during fog
Be a tree during storm
Be a tree surrounded by birds
Be a tree surrounded by friends

After playing the game for a while I realized something... To be a tree is the meaning of life. There is only tree, tree is love, tree is life. 10/10 would recommend

eerT






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