Essence Of The Tjikko - Prologue
Explore a retro 3D fantasy world in Essence Of The Tjikko.Wake up as a plant child at the bottom of a fantasy botanical lab. Eat seasonal fruits to unlock abilities, solve puzzles, and climb to the top in this Retro 3D zelda-like adventure.
🌟 REMASTERED EDITION - FEBRUARY 2026
After 4 years of development, Essence Of The Tjikko returns completely rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5.
What's new in the remaster:
- Enhanced graphics - Improved lighting, textures and post-processing
- New UI system - Better readability and visual feedback
- Extended seasonal fruit system - New visual effects and refined mechanics
- 50+ bug fixes and improvements
- Performance optimization
Released on February 22nd, the day after Zelda's 40th anniversary - a tribute to the 3D dungeons that inspired this botanical adventure.
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Discover mysteries in an old-school 3D Zelda-like dungeon.
Climb walls, move objects, perceive the invisible with your ether vision. You are a plant-child hybrid with unique abilities.
You're at the bottom of a 7-floor botanical laboratory. To reach daylight, traverse 30+ rooms filled with puzzles, strange mechanisms and botanical secrets.
Transform with seasonal fruits:
- Spring - Water bouncing
- Summer - Blazing speed
- Autumn - Ethereal vision
- Winter - Frosted jump
Each fruit changes your abilities and appearance. Experiment to discover new paths.
This prologue takes 1-2 hours to complete. Self-contained episode, first part of a larger adventure.
Like a sprout, upward is the only way!
🍃 Transform with seasonal fruits
Four fruits change your abilities AND appearance:
- Spring - Water bouncing
- Summer - Blazing speed
- Autumn - Ethereal vision
- Winter - Frosted jump
Follow the hero on their quest to understand their origins and the bonds they share with other plants. They react around them and the hero can sense the ether flowing. Their health is also their stamina, so take care of it like a fragile bud.
🧗 Explore a 7-floor vertical dungeon
This dungeon hides many secrets. Use your abilities to spot them and head for the exit. Climb walls, move objects, use your ether vision to reveal the invisible.
Every path is the right one, and you might find rewards around any corner. 30+ interconnected rooms await you.
🔬 An enigmatic botanical laboratory
Plants can have strange shapes, but this laboratory has very strange ones. Computers, doors, cable cars, bridges, chairs... You'll explore a vast cabinet of curiosities!
Understand how each mechanism works to progress. Technology and botany blend in this abandoned environment.
🎮 A love letter to early 2000s 3D games
With low-fidelity textures and clean 3D models, this game pays homage to early 2000s 3D adventures (PS2, GameCube). Nostalgia doesn't recreate the past, but can enchant the present...
Inspired by Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, Essence Of The Tjikko captures the essence of those memorable dungeons while bringing a unique botanical twist.
Features:
✓ 7-floor vertical dungeon, 30+ unique rooms
✓ 4 seasonal fruits transforming your abilities and appearance
✓ Climbing, object manipulation, ether vision
✓ Environmental physics puzzles
✓ Retro early 2000s aesthetic (PS2, GameCube)
✓ 11 Steam achievements
✓ Full controller support (recommended)
✓ Available in 10 languages
Music by Philippe Reinhart
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Minimum system requirements:
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3 4000 series
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti
- Storage: 1 GB