Eufloria

Graphically, Eufloria is simple, with minimalistic graphics, and a simple design. The colour of the Euflorian empire is customizable.

At the start of the game, the player has one tree, called a Dyson tree, on an asteroid. The tree has a number of branches and leaves that fall off and become seedlings, which can be used to either create trees or fight other seedlings. Each tree is unique, the growth of its branches based on a fractal algorithm.

The game begins in the far off future in space. The player controls a force of seedlings, and take more asteroids for the growers, mythical beings which spawned the seedlings. The mothertree hopes that by taking enough colonies for the growers, they can make them return. Early in the game, the player encounter an enemy, the greys, which has brutally attacked one of their colonies.

Soon the mothertree learns that the greys have been driven mad by a disease, which forces them to attack. They also learn that another empire is attacking their empire and so the player is sent beyond the borders of the empire to find out why the greys are attacking, and deal with them. The player continues, gaining new technologies and rescuing allies along the way, to find that their enemies produced the greys, despite the danger that the greys would destroy them too. Eventually, the home asteroid of the greys was found.

Originally called Dyson, the game started as a simple single proof of concept level. Levels were originally designed with the XML markup language, and later the Lua programming language for increased flexibility.

The game was renamed Eufloria after a contest on IGN's Direct2Drive. Over 400 names were sorted through, with Vernon Sydnor giving the winning name.

Lewis Denby of Resolution Magazine gave the game a 6/10. Anthony Burch of Destructoid gave it a 4/10. Mike Rose of gamezebo gave it three out of five stars.