In-game event30 Jun 2026Version 2.2.0 Patch NotesWe're tending to our gardens, growing some new challenges, and keeping the bugs away! Included in this update: · Support for 9 new weekly and monthly challenges featuring new garden shapes and new mechanics · Fixed a bug where the full number of stars would not be awarded to the player · Fixed the challenge timers on the main menu · Cleared out some unused files to make the download smaller
Every garden needs maintenance. We’re pulling weeds and planting seeds, fixing bugs and preparing fun new monthly and weekly challenges for you. In this update: · Support for 8 new challenges including new mechanics and new flowers · Quality of life: Added loading animations · Quality of life: Challenge timer now visible on main menu · Quality of life: Rewind button in tutorial easier to find ·…
Spring has arrived! The leaves are green, the sun is shining, and flowers are blooming as the crisp April showers give way to May. We’ve gathered a bouquet of Primrows challenges to present to delight your brain and celebrate the season. In May’s monthly challenge, “Spring Blooms,” we’ve got a whole new kind of challenge for you to tackle. This journal challenge is a medley of five other flower…
Our biggest Primrows update yet will give you a gameplay experience totally different from all prior versions of the game - Primrows Academy is the perfect addition to our growing collection of over 75 weekly and monthly challenges. We’ve even packed in a few surprises! Primrows 2.0 adds: • Primrows Academy, a campaign-style puzzle mode featuring 18 levels designed to introduce players to the b…
As the world begins to thaw, gardeners around the northern hemisphere start to plant the seeds that will soon grow into thriving gardens. Here in Primrows, we’ve got all the nutrients needed for brand new puzzles, ready for you to sprout and grow your skills! In April’s monthly challenge, “Survive and Thrive,” we’ve taken the fan-favorite Endless Survival challenge and added a twist with lotus…
Winter is giving way to spring, and nature is starting to wake up from her slumber. Stretch out, enjoy the sunshine, and let your brain flourish with the newest batch of Primrows challenges! In March’s monthly challenge “High Roller,” we’ve put two score-boosting powerups into a single challenge. You’ll want to be on the lookout for opportunities with this challenge, because stacking the poweru…
We’re tending to our garden, keeping it as bug-free and accessible as possible, and growing some fun new challenges with new flowers and fun twists sprouting every week In this update: · Support for new challenges with fun new mechanics · New achievement for perennial challenge gardeners · Accessibility: allow planters to be used with two clicks instead of a drag · Quality of life: undo now wor…
With winter in full swing and the holidays behind us, it’s the perfect time to curl up with some new Primrows challenges that will help to defrost your brain as the days grow steadily longer. In February’s monthly challenge, you’ll trade in the usual 4x4 board for a larger model loosely inspired by a bingo card. For an extra twist, you’ll need to take the long diagonals into consideration as we…
We’re growing all-new challenges for the new year! This update offers continued support for upcoming weekly and monthly challenges, bringing new flowers, twists, and surprises you’ll want to set your weekly alarm for. In this update: · Support for a dozen new challenges with fun new mechanics · Fixed a bug where the wrong challenge name could appear in some spots
It’s a brand new year! Have you made any resolutions to keep your brain in shape or try something new? If so, might I recommend our newest Primrows challenges? In January’s monthly challenge, you’ll have two chances to score in every category instead of just one. This makes for an extended-play challenge that rewards consistent performance over brief flashes of luck. You’ll definitely want to t…
Bundle up and grab a steaming cup of hot cocoa — winter has arrived! No need to worry about our thriving garden ecosystem, the flowers of Primrows will grow and bloom all year long and have new challenges to offer. In December’s monthly challenge, you’ll unwrap a powerup bonanza. You get three scratches — a new mechanic that lets you record a zero on the scorecard and start fresh with a new gar…
Are you on your last nerve trying to wake up those pesky sleeping flowers? Maybe you’ve never tasted the sweet rush of dopamine that getting a Prize Garden brings. Nominate Primrows as the Best Game You Suck At!
It feels like fall only just arrived, and yet it’s already on its way out. We’ve prepared a challenge that will help you give the autumn harvest season a proper send-off. November’s monthly challenge tasks you with foraging for a wide variety of flowers. With nine different flowers to score on a standard-sized board, you’ll need to keep your eyes peeled for the flowers you still need -- it feel…
We’ve added a new Daily Replay feature to help you on your journey to collecting challenge stars! Every day you’ll have the chance to replay an earlier daily or monthly challenge. This will give newer players the chance to catch up on the leaderboards from our last major update, and long-time fans the chance to pick up the challenges they may have missed the first time around. · New Daily Repla…
It’s spooky season, and it’s my favorite time of year! Our happy little flowers might not be particularly fearsome, but I think we’ve come up with a truly frightful challenge that will send chills down your spine! October’s monthly challenge is a larger-than-life 9×9 board that will challenge even expert gardeners. All the way back when we were playtesting the game, a few players wondered aloud…
We’re tending to our garden by bringing you new challenges, better performance, and a bug-free Primrows experience! · Smoother transitions between menus and gameplay · Streamlined challenges to reduce and memory usage and reduce loading times when switching between main menu and gameplay · Added support for additional weekly and monthly challenges · Cleaned up several rules cards for existing c…
Fall is in the air! September is a time of change, and marks a return to school for many parts of the world. Primrows is getting into the spirit of the season by offering challenges that both switch up regular play and challenge you to learn new techniques. Geometry-loving gamers have a long tradition of seeing a game that’s played on squares and remixing it into a hexagonal version: chess, che…
Eager to share your gardening prowess with the world? This update brings you a crop of social and competitive features to show off your skills. Full feature list: · Added Leaderboard Support · Created 10 new achievements · Added A snapshot feature for sharing your high-scoring gardens · Refined tooltip system to better guide first-time players · Let players see scorecard tooltips by hovering wi…
Primrows has much more to offer beyond the basic modes, and they’re changing constantly so be sure to keep checking in! Every week we bring you a brand new challenge to try your hand at, and at the beginning of each month you’ll also get a bonus extended-play challenge. For August, we’ve got a limited-water challenge called “Drought” -- a nod to late summer in the Midwest, where a lot of our de…
Now that Primrows has been out for a few months, I’d like to share with you some lessons we’ve learned from watching players post-launch, how those lessons are shaping our ongoing updates, and what we (and other indie developers) can carry forward to the next project. We put a lot of hours into playtesting. There was a mix of one-on-one sessions, self-guided play, and interacting with attendees…
We have some big news for Primrows, along with some brand new info on what to look forward to with our Monthly and Weekly Challenges! Press Gay To Play Primrows has been featured in the 2025 Rainbow Tech Fest showcase: Press Gay To Play! This is our game’s first ever appearance in a showcase, and we couldn’t be more proud. To celebrate, we’re having a sale here on Steam until the end of the eve…
We’ve been tending to our garden to bring you the best possible experience! This patch fixes some bugs, adds some quality of life fixes, and expands support for ongoing challenges. · Added support for upcoming weekly and monthly challenges · Hovering over a score category while playing with a mouse now brings up the tooltip for that row, even when scoring is not currently enabled · Tooltips hav…
The core strategy of Primrows comes from pattern matching. There are four basic patterns that let you place four of the same flower without any two being in the same row, column, or quadrant, and if you want to aim for high scores, you’ll want to get familiar with them. We’ve given them nicknames to help you recognize them. The Pinwheel: The Bolt: The Mountain: The Corner: If you’re trying for…
Join Cathy, Susan, and Kitt, three of the people behind Primrows, as we introduce you to the game, show you how to play, and answer some of the questions collected from our social media followers and Discord server. (Originally broadcast during Steam Next Fest fall 2024)
Finding the Magic Touch In our January update , we talked about how tactile gameplay is important to Primrows and to the Tursiops brand as a whole. This month, let’s dig deep into the process of how different creative roles worked together to build a satisfying tactile feel as you prune flowers in Primrows Art One of the first stylistic choices we had to make for Primrows was what the flowers s…
As we get closer to release, we’re all hard at work making sure that everything is all polished up and ready to go! Here’s a peek at some of the things we’ve added during the final stretch! Them’s the Rules Weekly challenges mix up the rules of the game in new and interesting ways. Every time you try one, you’ll get a little quick reference page where you can learn the rules of the challenge an…
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