The Bonsai Diary

It's 2025, and you plant a small tree seedling, imagining its future.

Bonsai trees can live hundreds of years. Who will inherit this living being? What will that person think of you in 2178? Will they think of you at all?

Use simple brush or pen strokes to shape your bonsai. On each page, you'll trace your previous bonsai and add one more stroke. Watch your bonsai grow bigger, page after page. Draw impulsively, or draw with intention.

As you play, the game asks you: Who are you? What do you hope for the future?

The game prompts introspection, and if my experience is anything to go by, it will leave you pondering long after you’ve put down your pen. In an age of fast-paced digital distractions, this tactile, thoughtful experience is a sanctuary of sorts.

-- review, Emil's Game Room

This is a beautifully contemplative game, in which you embody various generations that are all responsible for caring for a bonsai tree (and possibly more).

-- Mint, There's a TTRPG for That!