Tree Simulator

A tree in a real place

Tree Simulator is a PC tree-growing simulator centered on a single living tree in a real-world setting. You choose a tree and place, then watch its branches grow toward the light as it flowers, changes with the seasons, drops leaves and bends in the wind. The game includes eight real places, among them an English oak meadow in Oxfordshire, a Somei-yoshino cherry on Kyoto’s Philosopher’s Path and a sugar maple beside a Québec log cabin.

You can speed up time so a year passes in 15 seconds, or set the tree to real time. In that setting, the Kyoto cherry flowers when cherries in Kyoto do. Each tree grows differently, and its branches and marks from hard winters reflect its own growth.