Fun! I think there is a big unsolved UX challenge here with communicating the existing state of the board to the user; I felt like I had to memorize what connected to what to make any sense of it. 

I love the 3D grid with the sprites on it! Looks great. I feel like some additional time spent tweaking the PBR-ness of the grid (it's so shiny) would've gone a long way. Maybe the sprites would look better as true billboards? Do the shadows make sense? 

Good job!!

Absolutely love the music. Kind of reminds me of Stardew Valley and Terraria. Took me a couple turns to figure out how the game worked, but once it clicked it was quite satisfying and fun.

Building a bunch of mushrooms gathered together is really satisfying, and seeing one mushroom trigger others takes the happiness to the next level. At the beginning, I thought the start and end squares needed to be linked.

Completed it with some help! Very charming. Once you get the hang of it, it’s very addictive! I also looove the low poly 3D artstyle and the little visual novel segments. Though I did ship the two main characters and hoped they would become friends at the end lol

The descriptions on the mushrooms are unfortunately very puzzling. Something like a keyword dictionary would have been great. Nothing fancy, maybe just explaining all keywords (like “fertilize”) in the itch description could be enough :)
Also, I believe the “destroy” mushrooms may be a bit overpowered. I was able to get half of the level’s spores by repeatedly triggering the skull cap with new cannon fodder I threw at it with little strategy.

But these kinks are not game-breaking at all! Overall, a very charming little game that was obviously made with great care and love. Thanks again for being patient with me and explaining how the game worked over Discord!

It looks and sounds really neat, but I was too much of a dumdum to understand it the rules enough to actually play :D
So I’ll skip voting this. Maybe I’ll come back later and then it will click!

Edit: with some friendly help, I was able to complete the game! Writing a new review now :)

Baller! loved it, amazing work! no pointers beyond what you've already explained. had a lot of fun!

Really liked the music, it was relaxing as hell lol.

interesting, can you elaborate why you struggle to run it in firefox?

fun game and mechanics. as others have said, some of the rules can be a bit confusing - understandable you were not able to add all the bells and whistles. the pixel art and overall designs are superb. nice job =)

Great game! Interesting mechanics, and I loved the back and forth between Agaricus and Andreaea, the writing is fantastic. It can be difficult to remember what each mushroom does once you’ve placed them, it would be nice if you could hover over them to see their info, and I am still not 100% sure what some of the keywords do even after completing the game (e.g. fertilise, energy boost, rapid fire). I’m also unsure if this is intended, but the “mumbling truffle” (and perhaps others) grow slightly after each activation, leading to the glorious fungi shown below:

I can see how close our games are =).. but production value is on your side !
i hit an issue running it from firefox (using wgpu by any chance?) 

panicked at /home/runner/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/bevy_render-0.16.1/src/lib.rs:350:42: Failed to create wgpu surface: CreateSurfaceError { inner: Hal(FailedToCreateSurfaceForAnyBackend({})) }

Thankfully works on chrome though!
Props to you and your team for a well rounded experience.

This fit the theme nicely, and i love the music/sound. The artwork is really cool as well blending 2d/3d and pixel art with the nice backgrounds