Space to Grow

Space to Grow follows Jack and Kelly, the space-colony newlyweds from Our Personal Space, as they become parents. You shape Jack’s parenting style, plan a farm around the needs of his family and community, and make choices that affect his daughter as she grows from infancy to adulthood.

Parenting and choices

You can play Jack as an authoritarian “tiger dad,” a laid-back buddy dad or somewhere in between. Parenting options draw on modern child psychology and parenting research. Your decisions shape your daughter’s competence, independence and attachment, leading to one of four endings. Interactive dialogue lets you choose Jack’s attitude and approach to his family, farm and community.

Farm and factions

You customize the farm and balance crops for calories, nutrition and value. At the same time, you navigate negotiations among three factions: the rich megacorp R.E.T. and its miners, your fellow colonists, and maverick farmers who leave the colony’s safety to live on their own.

Branching story

The story contains 150,000 words, with branching choices that lead to four endings.