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The Regreening

Positive Impact Games · Published by ByteRockers' Games · Official site ↗

Last updated 4 Oct 2026

The Regreening is a cozy simulation game about restoring nature in a soilpunk fairytale. Grow plants to create living ecosystems, become friends with ancient spirits, make your own upcycling hub, and hug ALL the animals! Can you transform this deserted world into a joyful home again?

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Explore a soilpunk fairy tale where your choices shape nature's rebirth. Plant life, forge friendships with spirits, and craft an upcycling hub in this charming simulation that turns desolation into paradise.

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About the Game

Restore the world with your hands, your heart, and just a touch of magic. Watch seeds turn into trees and the desert turn into a green oasis. Feel the change as it happens: warm breezes ripple through freshly sprouted meadows, frogs return to singing wetlands, and it finally rains.

  • Plant & Cultivate: Discover new seeds, choose which animal habitats to restore, learn powerful plant synergies, and create beautiful living biomes according to your vision.

  • Recycle & Craft: Clean up old junk to collect crafting materials and upcycle them into beautiful decorations for your home, or powerful watering systems for your plants.

  • Befriend Folklore Spirits: Meet mythical nature spirits willing to give you mighty abilities in exchange for your help (and maybe a few shiny objects.)

  • Enjoy the Fruits of Your Care: Harvest flowers and berries to plant in new areas or to give as gifts to your favourite animals and friends.

✅ Stress-free: no timers, no pressure.

✅ Feel your impact! Everything you do helps nature recover.

✅ Rich atmosphere: adaptive soundtrack + ASMR-like nature sounds

✅ Intuitive mechanics with folklore storytelling.

System Requirements

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Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 or AM D Ryzen 5 1400
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R9 280X, 3 GB
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

Supported Languages

English*, French, German, Czech, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Spanish - Spain
*languages with full audio support

Latest news

  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    The Regreening Demo is OUT NOW! 🌱🦊

    Dear Friends!! 🌱 The wait is over, TELL EVERYONE! Your friends, your pets, and even your mom! The Regreening Demo is now available to play on Steam! After four playtests, thousands of players, lots of feedback, and more than a few bugs squashed along the way, we’re ready to open up the next chapter of Viri’s journey to everyone. Thank you for helping us get here! We’ve now reached over 50,000 wishlists, which is an incredible milestone for our little regreening journey. 💚 So, what’s waiting for you in the Demo?🌍 The Regreening Now Speaks 11 Languages! One big addition to the Demo is localization! You can now play in: EnglishGermanFrenchBelarusianCzechTurkishSimplified ChineseJapaneseKoreanBrazilian Portuguese Spanish As an international team, we’re very happy that many more of you (and us!) can now experience Viri’s journey in your own language. 💚📖 The Story Continues! The journey doesn’t stop at the Earthbound Plains anymore. The Demo expands the story and gives you new parts of the world to discover and restore. Meet Ophis and Lis, two new eccentric characters inspired by fairytales and legends. Explore an entirely new area, the Junkyard. Once you’ve made your way through, you’ll even get a sneak peek of the Gorge, another area that awaits Viri on her journey. There’s more to discover about the world, its inhabitants, and what happened here, but we’ll leave some things for you to find yourself :)♻️ More Recipes, Ingredients & Upcycling! We’ve expanded crafting with more than 15 new ingredients to discover and use in your recipes. The Upcycled Furniture Set is also now fully available, giving all that junk you find around the world a much prettier second life. Clean it up, collect what you need, and turn yesterday’s trash into something useful for your home and the world around you.   🐦 A New Animal Has Arrived! Crows have joined the ecosystem! Find, craft, and place Crow Habitats to welcome them back into the world. We have a feeling Corvelia will be particularly ...
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  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    Small delay on The Regreening Demo 😔💚

    Dear Friends! 🌱We have some important news.Unfortunately, we ran into some hiccups with our Steam Demo and will not be able to launch today as previously announced 😔But fear not! The bunnies, the butterflies, and everyone on our side have gathered to get the Steam Demo up and running as soon as possible!What does this mean for our future world restoration experts (that's you!!) ☝️👀We hope to set the demo live later this week, so keep an eye here and on our socials for updates.It might take a tiny bit longer than expected, but we're so so SO excited for you to get your hands on the demo!!! Not long to go now, hopefully 💚Sending lots of soft butterfly hugs 🦋Best green wishes,Volha & The Regreening Team
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    Thank You for Playtesting! Our Demo Arrives on September 21st!

    Dear Friends! 🌱 Our playtests have officially come to an end, and before we move on to the next chapter of The Regreening, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined us! THANK YOU FOR PLAYTESTING!Over the course of four playtests, 7,300 of you explored Viri's world, restored ecosystems, decorated your homes, hugged animals, reported bugs, shared feedback, and helped us improve the game along the way. You've spent, on average, about 1h and 15 min in the playtest, while over 600 players spent over 3 hours in the game!! And some of you played for more than 16 hours! 😮Since our first playtest, 35,000 people have discovered and wishlisted The Regreening (whaaat!!) Seeing so many of you spend time in the world we've been building has been incredible. Thank you for being part of it!🛠️ You Helped Us Make The Regreening Better The playtests weren't just about showing you a piece of what we've made and leaving it at that. Thanks to your reports, feedback, and suggestions, we've fixed more than 50 bugs and introduced features that made playing smoother and more convenient. That includes things like: 🌙 Auto-save, so your progress is safely stored at the end of the day;🌱 Unstick Player system and button, for those who love to explore the whole map (and its farthest corners!) and sometimes get stuck in between tiles; ⚙️ More settings and quality-of-life improvements, like sound level adjustments and an improved tutorial.We also did plenty of smaller fixes and improvements based directly on what you told us! So when you play The Regreening next time, some of the changes are there because of you 💚By the way, about the next time...📅 Save the date!! Demo launches on September 21st, 2026 If you missed the playtests, this will be your next chance to experience The Regreening!And if you've already played, there will be reasons to come back!! Trust us, we've been working hard on new things that we haven't revealed yet 👀 It's so exciting!So book your calendar and tell your fri...
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  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    Updated Playtest is Here! 🌦️♻️🏡

    Hello, dear Friends! 🌱Welcome to our Playtest #4! We're opening it up again as part of the Games composed in Germany Steam event!This update introduces dynamic weather, expands your decorating options with outdoor decorations (!!!) and a brand-new Upcycled Furniture Set, as well as makes 100% World Restoration possible! We've also added the first phase of controller support, improved trash rewards, introduced auto-save, and made plenty of quality-of-life improvements based on your feedback (thank you so much for it!)Just click "Join Playtest" on our Steam page and jump right in! And if you already joined the Playtest previously, just make sure to update The Regreening in your Steam Library.And don't forget to join our friendly Discord community to share feedback, screenshots, and your latest regreening adventures. We love hearing your thoughts and seeing what you create. 💚 IMPORTANT NOTE: Please start a NEW game! Since we changed some important things, the old save files will not work correctly with this update.👉 Report bugs in this form: https://forms.gle/fLzSnqiS8m6UWDMG7🎮 Controller Support (tell us if it feels right!)You've been saying how much you'd like to play The Regreening with a controller, and we are happy to announce that the controller support is finally here!!This is an early implementation (the very first version), so we'd really appreciate your feedback on how the controls feel. We'll use your experience to improve things further and maybe even add features like key remapping in future updates!Go on, have fun!!♻️ Give Old Things New Life & Decorate the WorldA brand-new furniture collection has arrived: the Upcycled Furniture Set! Check out the new style below!But also, your creativity no longer has to stay indoors. You can now craft and place Outdoor Decorations to personalize restored areas, create cozy gardens, or simply add your own touch to the landscape.You can discover new recipes while cleaning up trash or by restoring the world, then craft fu...
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  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Major Playtest Update is Here! 🦊🏡🌳 Play on June 4-19, 2026

    Hi, dear Friends! 🌱The next playtest for The Regreening is finally here, and it's our biggest update yet!This time, we're introducing a brand new feature: decorating your very own Earthship Home. But that's not all! New wildlife has arrived, ecosystems have become more complex, and there are brand-new places to discover throughout Earthbound Meadow. Just click "Join Playtest" on our Steam page and jump right in! 👉 Please report bugs in this form: https://forms.gle/fLzSnqiS8m6UWDMG7 And don't forget to join our friendly Discord community to share feedback, screenshots, and your latest regreening adventures. We love hearing your thoughts and seeing what you create 💚 🏡 Make Your Earthship Feel Like HomeYou can now enter your Earthship Home and decorate it however you like!Discover furniture recipes hidden throughout the world, craft cozy decorations, and personalize your space with the brand-new Earthbound furniture set. From unique indoor plants to stylish pentagonal floor tiles, there are plenty of ways to make this home your own.Walls and floor pieces only need to be crafted once and can then be reused infinitely. And yes, Viri can finally relax on furniture, making for some adorable screenshots!🦊 New Wildlife & Ecosystem ChallengesTwo new animals are joining the world:Peacock ButterflyRed FoxArrival of the Red Foxes will introduce natural wildlife interactions, making restored habitats feel even more alive and interconnected. Finding the right balance between the species will be key to building a healthy world. Make sure to place your Fox habbitat close enough but not too close to the Rabbit habitat to see for yourself!📖 Grandma Laima Has Some TipsWe've listened to your feedback!Some things were not explained as clearly as we hoped during previous playtests, so Grandma Laima is stepping in to help! The tutorial has been completely reworked, and Laima's Tips will now guide players through important systems and mechanics much better.Prefer figuring things out on your...
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