Grow Up

Grow Up follows BUD, the lanky robot from Grow Home, after his parental spaceship MOM falls apart over an alien planet. Her hardware is scattered across the entire surface, and he has to gather it and ferry it back to the moon.

Where the first game was vertical and constrained, this one opens into a full planet you traverse in any direction. BUD walks, tucks into Ball mode to roll and bounce, and unfurls a Power Glider to drift between floating islands.

A gadget called the Floradex 3000 lets you scan plants you find and respawn them anywhere, turning bouncing fungi and giant Starplants into improvised climbing kits. Combined with the planet-spanning Starplants — vines that punch through the atmosphere — the game is mostly about cobbling together impossible ascents.

Developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. POD, a small drone with strong opinions about planets, tags along for company.