Island Evolution

Island Evolution is a short order puzzle in the spirit of Eyezmaze's GROW games.

You have a deserted island and 8 things to place on it: water, a tree, a stone, people, fire, a boat, fish and wind. You place one per turn. Every time you place something, everything already on the island tries to grow one level. So the order decides how far each thing gets.

There are 40,320 possible orders. 35 of them avoid every death. Only 3 reach the perfect score of 27.

No download, no account, about 10 minutes a run.

No spoilers here. Hints, the full evolution chart and the story of how it was made live on the official site: islandevolution.com

Made solo in Godot 4. I checked every one of the 40,320 orders with a script to make sure the rules hold up.