The Week Junior UK – 03 August 2019

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need. It’salso very muchamultiplayer game, which

means youcanshareyour worlds with friends and

friendly strangers alike.

The fun of the gamecomes from discovering how

to grow the thousands of different items, and then

putting them together in interestingways. That

makes up for thefact that the game’sgraphics

aren’t quite as good as some other crafting

games, such asTe rraria.

Growtopia is free to play,but youcanbuy

virtual gems to makeitfaster to unlock new

items for crafting. The gems areoptional,

though, and likeany game of this type, check with an

adult beforespending any money.

F

romMinecraft andTe rraria to Dragon’sQuest

Builders, games that includealot of crafting –

creating items from different ingredients or materials

–have become very popular.Growtopia is another

game on that list.

It wasfirstreleased for mobile phones and

computers back in 2012, but it’sonly now

coming to the PS4, Switch and XboxOne.

It’sanalways-online game set in a

platform world whereeverything grows on

trees: bricks, furniture, clothing and even

jetpacksorX-ray spectacles.

Your job is to createahome for yourself and

explorethe world, growing and crafting what you

Growyo urown

Howtostaysafeonline

LikeRobloxorFortnite, Growtopia is an online

game whereyoucanplay and chat with other

people who arealso enjoying the game.

As you might be chatting to new people and

strangers, you need to becareful not to

sharepersonal information with them.Personal

information includes things likeyour name, your

age and date of birth, whereyou live or the name

of your school.

If anyone pressures you toreveal this sort of

information–orsays anything else that worries

or upsets you–log out of the game and talk to

an adult you trust about what has happened.

Craft (almost) anythingyouwant in the multiplayer game Growtopia.

Growtopiacanbe

played with friends.

Thereare lots

of things to

craft in the

game, from the

useful to the

wonderfully silly.

It’sgreat fun

to play with

friends, chatting

together while

you build your

dream world.

Youhave to be online

all the time when

playing:if you

lose your

connection,

then the

game will stop.

TheWeek Junior’s games

expert Stuart Dredge gives his

thoughts on this newrelease.

What’s theverdict?

Thereare lots of

things to create.

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