Fit check
Is Shrooms worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Survival game fans who want mutation-based character customization
- Small groups seeking cooperative gathering and crafting
- Players interested in testing an early-alpha survival game
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a finished survival game with stable performance and balanced gameplay
- Players who prefer persistent progression, since the save system is still being developed and gameplay is sped up
- Players wanting large multiplayer servers, since the current server population is limited
Our take on Shrooms
Rather than giving players a fixed character, the game makes bodily change part of survival progression. Its 24 mutations and 126 combinations replace a standard class choice with mix-and-match abilities, while environmental threats and resource gathering remain central.
What is Shrooms?
Shrooms is a survival game set in a colorful world covered in fungi.
Players explore, hunt wildlife, gather materials, and craft tools for collecting better fungi. Survival involves managing cold and heat while facing animals and other survivors. Body mutations provide abilities that can be combined to shape different play styles; the game currently includes 24 mutations and 126 combinations. Cooperative play supports shared survival activities with friends. The game is in early alpha, with missing features, unstable behavior, possible crashes, unbalanced gameplay, and a save system still under development. Server capacity is currently limited while networking work continues.
How Shrooms plays
- 01Body mutations
- Twenty-four mutations provide abilities that can be combined into 126 possible combinations.
- 02Environmental survival
- Players contend with cold and heat while defending themselves against wildlife and other survivors.
- 03Resource gathering
- Hunting and material collection provide resources for survival and crafting.
- 04Cooperative play
- Friends can work together on survival activities and create equipment.
- 05Fungi harvesting
- Crafted tools support gathering better fungi in the game world.
Shrooms compared to similar games
Shrooms combines survival, mutation-based abilities, resource gathering, crafting, and cooperative play. Mr. Prepper also uses survival crafting, but centers on preparing an underground shelter and dealing with an authoritarian government rather than adapting a body to environmental threats.
Shrooms: platforms & release
Is Shrooms worth it?
It is worth it if: survival game fans who want mutation-based character customization. Skip it if: players seeking a finished survival game with stable performance and balanced gameplay.
Where can I download Shrooms?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Shrooms's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Shrooms on?
Windows and Linux.
