Planted!, the horticultural party game from Cloth Cat Games and Curveball Games, is now available digitally on PC via Steam. Its PC arrival follows the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions, which released on October 29.
The game’s pitch is pleasantly unhinged: up to four players sow crops, grow them, then throw the resulting produce at rival players and scoring targets. It is competitive multiplayer framed as “extreme gardening,” with giant vegetables, arena hazards and tactical power-ups taking the place of more conventional sports equipment.
Players can compete locally or online, with cross-play support connecting the PC, PS5 and Xbox Series versions. That matters particularly for a game built around short, chaotic group matches: cross-play means a group does not have to own the same machine to play together, while local multiplayer keeps the option open for a shared-screen session.
A party game where the crops are ammunition
Planted! is designed for one to four players. In multiplayer, the core loop is to sow, grow and launch produce while pursuing points and disrupting opponents. The available description suggests that growing is not merely decorative dressing around an arena brawler; it is part of the route from setup to attack. Players produce their own ammunition before flinging it.
That structure gives its gardening theme a practical gameplay role. A player must account for the immediate contest around them while also using the produce they have created to score or interfere with another player’s plans. The stated aim is fast-paced action, but the emphasis on learning and adapting tactics suggests the game is intended to reward more than indiscriminate carrot deployment.
The power-up list offers a clearer sense of the tone. Weed bombs, spud turrets and eerie green clones can be used to gain an advantage. A power-up is a temporary item or effect that changes the state of a match, whether by adding offensive pressure, creating a distraction or altering how opponents can move and respond. Here, the terminology is deliberately agricultural, but the gameplay purpose is familiar: create a sudden opening, protect a lead or make a scoring opportunity harder to contest.
Environmental hazards are another part of the competition. The game’s eight multiplayer arenas are said to each have their own twists and challenges, so players will need to consider the stage rather than treating every match as if it took place on the same neutral field. That can be important in arena-focused party games: a hazard can shift positioning, limit safe routes or turn a moment of disorder into an advantage for the player who is ready for it.
Eight arenas, from caves to volcanoes
Planted!’s settings range across windy mountainsides, cavernous cave systems, half-built skyscrapers and active volcanoes. The broad selection points to arenas that aim for spectacle as much as competition. A construction site and an active volcano are not simply alternative backdrops for a vegetable fight; the game identifies its environments as sources of unique challenges, making the setting part of the match’s tactical character.
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The announced multiplayer arena count is eight. That is the clearest measure of the game’s competitive map selection at launch, though the specific hazards and rules of each arena have not been detailed. The useful takeaway for prospective players is that Planted! is not described as a one-stage party game with cosmetic variations. Its multiplayer offering is built around a set of distinct locations, alongside power-ups and environmental complications.
The arenas also fit the game’s intentionally comic contrast. Gardening normally implies soil, patience and neat rows; Planted! places that activity on mountainsides, in caves, around unfinished towers and near lava. It is an idea that signals the game’s priorities immediately: this is not a quiet cultivation simulator, and careful gardening etiquette is unlikely to survive contact with a spud turret.
Online cross-play and local multiplayer explained
Cross-play means people on supported platforms can play together in the same online multiplayer pool. For Planted!, that includes the newly released Steam version and the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S editions. It is a particularly useful feature for friend groups split between console and PC, because it reduces the platform barrier that can otherwise decide which multiplayer games a group can actually play.
Local multiplayer, meanwhile, refers to people playing together in the same physical setting. The game supports both local and online sessions, giving players two distinct ways to organize a match. The supplied details do not specify every configuration for local play, so players looking for a particular setup should avoid assuming more than the confirmed support for local multiplayer and a total of one to four players.
Cross-play also has a broader practical implication for a newly released multiplayer title. Rather than separating its active player base entirely by platform, the feature brings supported systems together for online play. That does not make promises about matchmaking speed or regional availability, neither of which has been detailed, but it does mean PC, PlayStation and Xbox owners are not restricted to competing only with players on their own platform.
A solo campaign sits alongside the competitive matches
Although the multiplayer premise is central to Planted!, the game also includes a single-player story mode. The campaign takes players through different locations, provides challenges and boss battles, and lets them develop skills that carry into multiplayer.
That last detail is significant. Rather than presenting solo play as a wholly separate extra, the game links campaign progression to the competitive side. Players who want to learn alone can use the story mode’s challenges and bosses as a route to develop abilities with multiplayer relevance. The exact form those skills take has not been specified, so it would be premature to treat them as a particular unlock system or to infer how they affect competitive balance. What is confirmed is the intended connection between the solo mode and multiplayer play.
Boss battles generally refer to set-piece encounters against a more formidable opponent than standard play presents. In this case, their inclusion helps distinguish the campaign from a simple series of ordinary multiplayer-style rounds against AI. The details do not identify the bosses or explain their mechanics, but the mode is positioned as a more structured path through Planted!’s locations and challenges.
The game also has a cast of characters, each with their own personality and style. No mechanical differences between characters have been confirmed, so it is safest to view that statement as a promise of presentation and choice rather than evidence that each character has unique competitive abilities.
What is available now, and what is planned
Planted! is available digitally now on Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. The PC launch lands on November 9, while the PS5 and Xbox Series versions had already launched on October 29. Players browsing the day’s wider PC lineup can also see the games releasing on November 9, 2026.
A physical PS5 edition is planned in time for Christmas. No more precise release date has been provided. A Nintendo Switch digital release is also planned for early 2027, with a physical Switch edition planned for 2027. Those Switch plans are future releases rather than current availability, and no exact launch dates have been announced in the supplied details.
Cloth Cat Games describes Planted! as an idea that began as a prototype for testing odd and playful concepts before becoming a full project. That experimental starting point still shows in the final premise: competitive matches about cultivating ammunition, using cloned gardeners and firing oversized vegetables in dangerous, improbable places.
For players seeking a social game with a deliberately silly hook, the key facts are straightforward. Planted! supports one to four players, local and online multiplayer, and cross-play across its current PC, PS5 and Xbox Series platforms. It offers eight multiplayer arenas with hazards and power-ups, while a separate story mode provides solo challenges, boss battles and skills intended to transfer into multiplayer. Just do not mistake the gardening theme for an invitation to relax: in this garden, the onions are apparently part of the ammunition supply.
