About the Game
Strange Seed is a creature evolution game inspired by games like E.V.O.: Search for Eden and Spore’s creature stage. You begin as a humble blob: the “strange seed” that fell from a very unusual tree. While many blobs exist, you’re not quite like the others.
Evolution
Defeat creatures to collect their DNA and unlock new body parts. Reshape yourself and experiment with combinations to build the ultimate form. But remember that balance is key: a strong torso and powerful head might win fights, but what good is strength if you can’t catch your prey? With 7 part slots and over 40 creatures to discover, you’ll have over 10 million possible combinations to play with.
Exploration
Venture through 10+ unique biomes, from lush forests and sandy beaches to cityscapes and even the heart of a volcano. Each environment brings its own challenges. Too big for a narrow path? Evolve into something smaller. Stuck at a platform you can’t reach? Grow wings and take to the air. The world is full of secrets; can you uncover them all?
Combat
Don’t let the colorful world fool you - Strange Seed is full of danger. Creatures range from simple lizards to ferocious, Soulslike bosses. And victory isn’t just about reflexes: the right combination of parts could be the difference between survival and defeat. If you’re clever enough, you might even find ways to cheese your way to victory!
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Fixed Crystal Crafter not reviving from his tombstone in Crystal Caves
- Fixed The Abyssal Dreamer rematch fight not dropping his Shark Fin accessory
- Moved the transition line for reaching Distant Island much closer to the cliffs
- Fixed wrong area name displaying when entering Abyss
- Fixed arena / Ocean jellyfish fight counter going off right side of screen in wide screen (16:10 and above)
- The Abyssal Dreamer (TAD from here on) now drops a unique shark fin accessory from his rematch fight
- Added an extra attack to TAD
- Hitting the main body of TAD does 0 damage (instead of no result at all)
- Messages now mention TAD's heart being exposed
- Light pillars now highlight the turrets at the start of the fight
- Increased damage a bit on some of TAD's attacks
- In cases of save data corruption, the game now attempts to load from a backup
- The Abyssal Dreamer tombstone added
- Added Swim to mantis shrimp tail, crocodile tail, frog arms
- Fixed shrine icon not turning green in Ocean
- Swim now allows fast movement in ponds, lakes and rivers (not 3d movement though, that's limited to the ocean)
- Fixed (hopefully) enemies deactivating when they get pushed during combat in Ocean / Abyss
- Made plankton not turn off at long distance (so they should be easier to find)
- Fixed screen size video setting dropdown not displaying localized language
- Increased light brightness on Low graphics setting in Ocean
- Updated character sets for Simplified Chinese, Japanese & Korean
- Fixed accessory placement on Clam head, Urchin torso and Abyssal head
- Added tombstones for Seal Mutant and Neighptune (still working on the boss tombstone)
- Added a little speed boost to the start of flying off the cliff at Honey Cliffs
- Russian localization for Ocean improved by IgorCatty
- Made the snake skin a bit easier to come across
- Made raindrop hints in the Crystal Cave more visible
- Removed those unreleased creatures that shouldn't have been in the Bestiary... yet :slight_smile:
- Minor localization updates
- Significant improvements in FPS
- Russian translation improvements by IgorCatty
Fixed softlock bug caused by accessory rotation
Fixed Ant Queen rematch issues (and hopefully her achievement too)
Interaction range for NPCs now scales up if the player is gigantic
Improved detection of player on the pageant stage
Added Open Map to Controls for remapping
Fixed Stag Beetle Mama not dropping her loot
Minor physics tweaks to hopefully improve ground clipping
Fixed localization issue in Bestiary + added missing strings for Tortoise and Spider
Due to rendering issues, changed Russian font from PT Sans to Roboto
- Fixed Hargraves bugging out during his second phase conversion
- Yeti Mama nerf: lower HP, slightly lower damage on charge, significantly lower damage from her minions
- Ancient Chameleon: fixed buggy attack, gave a more unique attack pattern, reduced number of minions and their hp / attack strength
- Deer: added a pause in their non-aggro pathing
- Butterfly and mantis shrimp: another small nerf
- Increased distance that larger meat can be eaten from
- Fixed some ground in Crystal Cave not displaying attack indicators
- Fixed the historian's addition abilities (but really, did you expect a historian to do math?)
By the way, we've slowed down our build frequency as we work on some larger updates. More on that soon!
- The accessory judge is now fully accessorized
- More zoom out levels for extremely large creatures
- Fixed missing loot from Honey Cliffs Genesnake (Brown Beard + 10 biomass)
- Added black beard in Distant Island
- Added human arms to allowed parts for Bleached Beach shrine
- Buffed seagull head attack range + offset from head position, and speed
- Added Jump Efficiency skill to two more parts: frog legs, chicken torso
- Buffed frog torso with +speed
- Reduced jump stat on deer arms + legs
- More camera fixes to prevent it from ever detaching on respawn / teleport
- Enemy velociraptors nerfs: less HP and attack damage, longer attack windups, longer cooldown
- Enemy mantis shrimp nerfs: a bit less HP, less attack strength, longer cooldowns, longer windups
- Enemy butterfly nerfs: much less HP, chance of longer attack cooldowns
- Minor nerf to the Gloom Woods trio gank squad
- Removed butterfly neck for players (it was too duplicative with bee neck, even with a stats change)
- Increased range you can eat meat from a bit
- Increased the scale of meat produced by some creatures: butterfly, deer, dracodog, monkey, mantis shrimp, velociraptor
- Restored the visibility of the stage boundary barrier in Scrapshire Village
- Decreased dragon meat scale a bit to prevent it from flying away into the sunset due to physics forces
- Added tombstones for the side-character racers in Bleached Beach
- Fixed a Bleached Beach race issue that resulted in the race blue-screening and becoming unplayable; those players should now be able to run the race normally again
- Fixed Rosa boss fight causing major PC slowdowns when she's fighting flying players (she uses ground tremors to locate the player and it was really confusing her)
- Fix for camera detaching from the player character on respawns or evolutions; please report if encountering this again
- Fixed some instances of annoying buzzing sounds appearing during scene transitions / death, please report if hearing this again
- Digested / Acquired labels shouldn't hang around anymore
- Added sound for mushroom head attack and butterfly wing flapping
- Moved various skills to the Specials section
- The dragon tombstone now once again breathes flames... sometimes
Known issues:
- Saving video / camera settings is still wonky
- Moved the Distant Island transition a bit closer to Honey Cliffs and added a visual indicator when you get close
- Increased the size of some text in the Evolve screen
- Fixed Evolve screen tooltips going off the bottom edge of the screen
- Fixed some boss tombstone issues, in particular the dragon tombstone attempting to melt your face off
- Backup checker for Evolved Thumbs achievement that should trigger it for people who won all 5 machines
- Dragon fight tweaks to make it less annoying: flying loop procs less often, flying speed is faster, lava pools last a little longer; sorry to that one streamer who was losing his mind on the fight
- Increased spawn speeds for Easy and Medium arena fights
- Added another cunning creature as a potential solution for the fox shrine
- Fixed animations for player version of Hargraves' head
- Hargraves now puts that big brain to slightly more use, and won't just chase you endlessly if you keep juuust out of range
- Minor part fixes: Mecha torso can equip accessories, seal tail fully inherits color
- Death will now result from jumping into the Village lava pit (no lava stage yet, sorry)
Current Release
Not available
System Requirements
How to Install
setup.exe
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
1.7 GB
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