Grandpa's Garden

Grandpa Heinz is dead. He left you €500 and a note: "To get you started. Kalle knows."

Your job is gone, your apartment is gone, and your last money went on a bus ticket. So you head back to the town you grew up in, move into a motel and wonder what Kalle actually knows.

The answer grows in pots. You grow weed, roll joints and sell them to your first customers. Bit by bit, that motel room turns into a real business. But the town is watching. The police are on patrol, and Inspector Krause figures out pretty quickly that something about you isn't right.

Nine chapters of story about Grandpa's legacy, his old friends and a secret he hid well. When the story is over, you just keep playing.

You plant, water and harvest. Better lamps and sprinklers mean bigger harvests, and new strains bring in more money.

When a plant is ready, you snip off every bud yourself. Later the electric shears do it a lot faster.

Then you roll. Pull a paper from the pack, crumble the weed, put it on the paper and roll it up with the mouse wheel. Got more than one strain? Just pick the one you want.

Your customers text you what they need. You deliver on foot, by bike or by car, and happy customers tell their friends. Random people on the street might buy one too. Or call the cops.

At some point you can't do it all yourself. Dealers take over your rounds and gardeners look after the plants.

Lots of cash gets noticed. So you buy places like the post office or the car wash and launder your money through them.

From the motel you move into Grandpa's old house, later into warehouses and one day all the way up to a mansion. You furnish every place with furniture from the hardware store and stack your cash on the table.

If the police catch you, your stash is gone. Better not stand out. And if they do spot you, run for it on foot, floor it or hide in a trash can.

Things can get rough. You fight with fists, brass knuckles or a pistol, and the more trouble you cause, the more police come after you.

The town lives its own life. Day turns to night, it rains, cars drive by, shops open and close, and in the morning people head to work. Your health only comes back when you eat or sleep, so grab a kebab or a pizza to share with your friends. Coffee clears your head, and the barber gives you a fresh look. At night the casino opens, with slot machines, roulette and blackjack.

Up to five friends can join you in your town. Then you build the business together.

Grandpa started small too. Now it's your turn.

What's in the full game

• Nine story chapters about Grandpa's legacy, a choice at the end that changes how the police treat you, and free play once the story is over
• Three strains: green, blue and Grandpa's Gold
• Three lamp levels, two kinds of sprinklers, fertilizer and electric shears
• Up to three dealers who run your rounds, plus gardeners who water, harvest and replant for you
• A buyer who orders every evening and a ship captain who takes big export loads twice a week
• Launder your money at the ATM and through five businesses: post office, nail studio, car wash, car detailing and a Chinese restaurant
• Move up from a motel room to Grandpa's house, a warehouse, a factory and a mansion, and furnish every place
• A bike and six cars, from a Mini to a sports car
• Fists, brass knuckles, a pistol, a shotgun and an Uzi
• Police patrols, wanted stars, chases on foot and by car, and trash cans to hide in
• A casino with four slot machines, roulette and blackjack
• A living town with day and night, rain and thunderstorms, traffic, people going to work, birds and rats, kebab, pizza, coffee and a barber
• Online co-op for up to six players: you and five friends
• Character creator and emotes
• English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Croatian, Russian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean