Cozy idle
Compost Club
A balcony allotment that keeps growing while your phone is in your pocket.
- Store rating
- 4.7
- Installs
- 940K
- Released
- June 2023
- Built with
- Unity 6 · Android 8+
Our longest-running title: three years of updates, still growing month over month.
Compost Club is an idle garden with an unusual constraint — the simulation is honest. Crops advance on real wall-clock time, server-verified, and there is no way to buy your way past a growing season. Players told us that restraint is why they stayed.
Behind it sits the infrastructure we now reuse across the studio: a stateless event log, cheap daily rollups, and a content pipeline that lets a designer ship a new seed variety without an app update.
Retention at day 30 sits at 21.4%, which for a game with no push-notification nagging we are quietly proud of.
Worth knowing
- 148 plants, 26 visiting insects, one beetle in a straw hat
- Server-authoritative growth — no pay-to-skip
- Seasonal content shipped without app updates
- 21.4% day-30 retention across 940K installs
Credits
Systems design
Ilaria Bencivenni
Backend
Kwame Aldridge
Art
Sabine Rouault