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About this game

Prune is a love letter to trees. A game about the beauty and joy of cultivation.

With a swipe of a finger, grow and shape your tree into the sunlight while avoiding the dangers of a hostile world. Bring life to a forgotten landscape, and uncover a story hidden deep beneath the soil.

• A unique digital plant for your pocket
• Beautiful, minimalist art and a super clean interface—it's just you and the trees
• Meditative music and sound design for you to zen out to
• No filler - 48 carefully chosen levels
• No IAP, no monetization strategy, no currencies
• Share screenshots of your unique tree creations with friends

Originally based on an experimental tree generation script, Joel McDonald carefully crafted Prune to perfection over the course of a year. Kyle Preston joined in to add his unique musical signature and sound effects.

----- RECEPTION -----

"Wildly creative, totally addictive, and oddly soothing" - Entertainment Weekly

"Breathtakingly beautiful design and gameplay work together perfectly for a tranquil, touching experience." - 4.5/5 Gamezebo

"Prune is an awe-inspiring work of digital poetry that transcends its initial subject material to explore a much larger, much more complex theme, in an articulate and powerfully moving manner." - 10/10 Pocket Gamer

"A collaboration that feels more like a dance than puzzle-solving." - Kill Screen
Cultivate what matters. Cut away the rest.
Updated on
Oct 8, 2025

Data safety

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  • No data shared with third parties
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  • No data collected
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  • Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.53K reviews
Dee Gee
January 29, 2025
A very interesting, clever puzzle game with what may be a unique approach. On the other hand, the tutorial level doesn't mention all the controls, so I stumbled onto two-finger gestures to zoom and moved on accident. Further, the nature of levels never really going the same way twice means I get stuck on a level, but then suddenly pass it without knowing what I did differently, or exactly what action led to what outcome. It's a very clever game, but needs to make itself clearer to the player.
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Mel M
July 26, 2021
Def an interesting game...But (lol,) I was expecting more variety based on the developer's description. I didn't get very far in this game; it wasn't the peaceful, image rich game I pictured from the game's description and user comments. You have to cut growing branches in increasingly challenging stages. I think the limited time combined with the speed and random growth of the branches makes this game interesting but repetitive.. And not relaxing. The scenes are very cool though.
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Ali Khan
February 3, 2025
Good game wish there were more levels. There is one level that I absolutely can't stand though, and that's level 6-11's blue flower. It genuinely feels impossible to get, as even with perfect timing, my tree can only reach the blue flower for like a second or two before it's chopped by the saw. Please fix as it feels more like bad level design than a challenge. Ta
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What’s new

Prune has been upgraded to work on the latest devices. Additionally:
-patched an important security breach (in the Unity engine)
-fixed several of the bonus levels which were too difficult
-fixed a few UI/visual bugs