Has anyone figure out the Lore to this game yet?

[Lenky Lad]

I bought this game for two reasons, the concept of the controls, and the mystery to the meaning on the games entire world and 'character' I played through the game, found nearly all the grafiti's and secret rooms. I've pieced a few things together but the whole of the story and purpose is still a mystery. The biggest issue I've seen was the lack of discussions on the LORe. So, I want anyone with any story tidbits to mention them here.

Here's what I remember SPOILERS btw:
The boss in the third chapter was the one who broke free from the 'Infinifoods' factory where the other regenerating creature was.
the boss from the lab was an experiment possibly created as some sort of evolution of the human race.
the 11 in the title most likely states the mushroom you control is the 11th of the others considering the amount of forestry in the last chapter and what happens at the end to spread life to the bare land you traversed.

[qrilin]

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My interpretation of the ending: all life currently living on the planet originated from the mushroom. The form the player is controlling is and the form that are the save points are responsible for reproduction. The goo is ejected to travel around and consume samples of the various subspecies, then impregnate the 'save points' with the collected genetic material.

When the goo eventually finds a fully matured save point, it's consumed and the collected genetic material is used too seed all the various lifeforms, and finally the goo itself to restart the cycle.

[zharmad]

The wooden house in chapter 7 contains the final lab that made mushroom 11 - you come across the 11 specimen jars in their display windows, with the last one broken open. Many of the other doodles show various basic chemical cycles in the cell.

[MadeOfBricks]

Yeah I know this thread is old but I feel like it's the only one acknowledging that you play as a penis the whole game. Just, even the end is so phallic. You literally penetrate the final save point, WHICH HAS ACTUAL FOLDS TO IT (and the interior of which looks like a uterus), to get the credits sequence. This is the low-key-est, horniest, low-key horny game in existence.
I love the ♥♥♥♥ out of this game, no doubt about it, but yeah this game is just "Horny Plant Simulator", with some of the best puzzles in all of platforming history.

[InkyInspiration]

I just played this game myself. Here is something I thought may have been the events leading up to the game. It seems like at some point a scientist (depicted in several places as a saint, mostly in the hospital section of level 5) found the secret for inmortality. There are lots of references to inmortality throughout the game, such as the infinity symbol on the wall of level 7. I belive that when you are given the treatment it changes your body to something more blobby shaped. In the Hospital you can see a big wall with a slot for a human to go with tubes going in to it. Then in the next room you see a similar slot but this is for a larger, blob shape humanoid. Similar to the balloon boss you fight later in the level. This would also explain the "Infini-food" factory that has the continuosly growing "Shrimp" forever being harvested for its meat. There was a dispute at some point weather this treatment was good or not. It seems the town in the second level was against it. You can see signs with the blob figures looking menecing or threatening human shaped stick figuresm but I think most telling is the movie poster later in the level that talks about "Infinite love" and how they can never have it. The poster is of a human woman and a blob person. I feel that this shows a movie about a human not taking the inmortality procedure when her lover does so he is doomed to be alone once she dies. At some point the regular humans died out, leaving only the imortal blob people.
The next part I am a lot less confident about, but I think that when the blob people had children something was wrong with them. The offspring couldn't survive. In the hospital there is a whole area filled with baby cribs and a gigantic robotic "nurse" installed above them. There is also a graveyard that mentntions on it's gate about how they need to attone who what they have produced.
This last part is rampent speculation, as I don't have any evidence to back this up, but I figure one of two things happened in the end. One, the blob people, since they lived forever, destoryed all the resorces they could find until they died out due to factors such as food. Or, there turned out to be some sort of unknown sideffect of the treatment that only manifested later in their life, killing them and leaving the world to regrow in peacec.
But anyway, that was my thoughts. I would love some feedback! I wish that I had grabbed screen shots to back up my evidence, but I found this game to become progressivly more frusturating than rewarding and do not care to play it again.

[PandACT]

oooh I like the idea for trans-humanist mushroom people better than what I first thought of: that you were an organism designed to terraform the world after its (nuclear?) destruction and, over many cycles of selecting flora to seed the world with, make it habitable for humans hiding somewhere (or stored in your DNA?). Or you could just be spreading yourself and/or the symbiotic plant in a feedback loop as you have at least one spore that returned to its starting place.
The theme of destruction in order to rebuild works well with the game mechanics and decomposers in general, though there is something to say about MadeOfBrick's sexual interpretation that the game is about fertilization too; maybe even fertilizing yourself because who's the real self when you split and rejoin from yourself? This is why Freud should've done shrooms instead of cocaine...
Anyway most of the science on the wall was about giving the mushroom energy (Krebs cycle memes), but I couldn't make out the last part where they apparently used maranta, beetle juice, and radiation to give it growth abilities. Also, the limit on size is probably due to the fact that the largest mycelium is over 10 square kilometers in area, and they didn't want it taking over. The rest of its puzzle solving and splitting itself through mazes kind of happens already in slime molds, which aren't even a fungus, but scientists could combine it for Mushroom 11. Maybe it's really deep but I just get lost in the psychedelics