Three years in a day. A tree shaped by you.
BONSAI 3D is a quiet bonsai growing game that follows real time. Tend your tree a little each day, then enjoy its presence as it grows toward a hundred years.
A TRUNK WITH A HISTORY
Guide the direction of future growth while preserving the trunk that has already formed. Shorten branches at the point you touch while keeping the proximal branch. Water daily and find a shape of your own. The Undo control lets you restore pruned branches.
PREVIEW ITS FUTURE
Compare the present, ten years ahead and the hundred-year form. Previewing does not change the real age or your saved tree. A structural assessment helps you consider your next step.
JUDGING WITH REASONS
Trunk line, taper, branch structure, space and balance contribute to a 100-point score. Completed trees receive Gold, Silver, Bronze or Merit awards. This is a game assessment of measurable structure, not judging by a human expert. Season, camera angle and pot rarity do not change the score.
THE COMMUNITY EXHIBITION
Choose a completed tree from your shelf to exhibit online. All works share one ranking. Discover works by overall score, new arrivals or popularity, and explore another grower's tree in 3D with rotation, zoom and seasonal views.
Exhibiting is optional. Vote once per work; you cannot vote for your own. The app recalculates scores from tree structure. Game Center ranks each player’s best currently exhibited work; Popular now covers the newest 100 works. Withdraw exhibits, report works, hide artists or delete your exhibition data in the app.
FOUR SEASONS, MANY TREES
Begin with black pine, Japanese white pine, maple or cherry, then discover up to 16 species and 19 pots in the Shop. Choose from seven stand finishes: hinoki, black lacquer, bamboo, rosewood, ink-stained, vermilion lacquer and zelkova. Enjoy spring flowers, summer foliage, autumn color and winter snow in a Japanese garden. Explore actual 3D models in the Seedlings & Pots catalog. Choose Moyogi, Bunjin or Chokkan for new seedlings, then guide and prune them to create your own shape.
A QUIET DAILY RITUAL
• Three in-game years per real day
• Free daily watering; missed days never kill your tree
• Optional rewarded ads for fertilizer and the Shop
• Optional in-app purchases of tickets that replace rewarded ads
• Two free growing spaces, with permanent purchases for a third and fourth
• Previously unlocked growing spaces carry over
• No forced ads or subscriptions
Instead of an ad, use 1 skip ticket for regular fertilizer (+5 years), 2 for special fertilizer (+10 years), or 1 for a Shop draw. Shop draws have separate seedling, pot, stand and scenery collections, with no daily limit. Each unowned item in the selected collection has equal odds, with no duplicates. Fertilizer daily limits are shared between ads and tickets. Tickets never expire. Ticket balance syncing requires iCloud and an internet connection. Shop contents and draw odds are available before purchase and use. Restore purchased growing spaces from the shop.
Growing trees and shelf data are backed up with iCloud. The online exhibition requires an internet connection. Exhibiting requires iCloud and Game Center sign-in; voting requires iCloud. No separate app account is created.
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