Mycelium: Mushroom Garden

Mycelium grows through the soil. Spores drift through the sky, land on the ground, and mushrooms sprout.

Mycelium is a quiet collecting game about growing mushrooms. Just watch: the mycelium finds nutrients and spreads, mushrooms sprout and slowly ripen. Harvest the ripe ones and fill your guide. You can also collect mushrooms from 193 countries in the World Garden, 280 World Heritage sites in the World Heritage Garden: Nature, and 234 of Japan's National Treasure buildings in Japan's National Treasure Garden.

HOW IT WORKS

• Tap a ripe mushroom to harvest it
• Harvested mushrooms are added to your guide
• Tap the sky to stir up a breeze that carries the spores
• Tap the soil and the mycelium reaches that way
• Mushrooms keep sprouting while the app is closed (up to 8 hours)

FEATURES

• A guide of 150 imaginary mushrooms, each with its own shape, color and pattern
• Rarity from 1 to 5 stars. A 5-star find might take months
• Special variants to collect: recolor, golden and giant
• Seven stages: Mossy Forest, Leaf Litter, Damp Cave, Fallen Log, the World Garden, the World Heritage Garden: Nature and Japan's National Treasure Garden. Only the stage you pick grows, and more forest stages open as your guide fills up
• The sky follows the real time: morning, day, evening, night, with drifting clouds, the sun, the moon and stars
• A Country / Heritage of the day, picked from the 193 countries and 280 World Heritage sites
• Harvest alerts: get a notification when your mushrooms are ripe. Quiet at night. Off by default
• Titles and harvest records
• Share your rare finds as a card image
• iCloud sync: keep your guide on a new iPhone
• In English, Japanese, German and Spanish

WORLD GARDEN The World Garden is open from the very start.

• Mushrooms from 193 countries, each with a cap patterned like that country's flag
• Every country is equally likely to grow, so you can collect at your own pace
• A world map sits at the top of your guide. Countries you find light up on it, and you can open it full screen and pinch to zoom
• On each country's page, open its capital in Google Maps or search what its mushroom is named after
• Complete a continent for a special celebration and a new decoration in the sky. Find all 193 countries to complete the world
• World titles and records by continent

WORLD HERITAGE GARDEN: NATURE The World Heritage Garden is open from the start too.

• 280 natural and mixed World Heritage sites, each one a mushroom whose cap paints that site's landscape
• Every site is equally likely to grow, so you can collect at your own pace
• On each site's page, search for it or open it in Google Maps
• Countries and sites are linked: jump from a country to its sites and back
• Find every site in a country to complete that country. Your records keep count
• Collect all 280 sites for a special celebration and a new decoration in the sky

JAPAN'S NATIONAL TREASURE GARDEN Japan's National Treasure Garden is open from the start, too.

• 234 buildings in Japan designated as National Treasures, each one a mushroom whose cap paints that building
• Horyu-ji, Himeji Castle, Byodo-in, Nikko Toshogu, Itsukushima Shrine and more
• Every building is equally likely to grow, so you can collect at your own pace
• On each building's page, search for it or open it in Google Maps
• Collect all 234 buildings for a special celebration and a new decoration in the sky

GUIDE

• Search by name or country
• Sort heritage sites by year or name, the World Garden by continent or country, and National Treasures by year of designation or prefecture

ABOUT PURCHASES

• Free to play, with a banner ad at the bottom of the screen
• "Remove Ads" (one-time purchase) hides the ad for good
• Nothing you can buy makes the game easier