Mycelium Heaven Review

Game: Mycelium Heaven
Genre: Logic Puzzle, Indie
System: Steam (Windows)
Developers | Publishers: 3DGoblinDev | Dojo System
Controller Support: Full
Price: US $9.99 | UK £8.50 | EU € 9,75
Release Date: February 27th, 2025

A review code was used, with many thanks to 3DGoblinDev.

Mycelium Heaven is a themed puzzle game surrounding the breaking down of dead bodies. As a colony of mushrooms, it’s your job to make sure that the zombies that are all over your forest are broken down, continuing the circle of life in your little neck of the woods.

This Spring level in Mycelium Heaven is a larger level with moving zombies to decompose. — Two colors of mushrooms!?

The Puzzles in Mycelium Heaven

Mycelium Heaven is very similar to the puzzle game One S’more, which I covered back in October 2024. It has the same cartoonish graphics, puzzle movement, and polish that One S’more did, and I love it for many of the same reasons.

Mycelium Heaven begins with very simple puzzles to show you how the puzzles work. You have three tries to break down the bodies that must be cleared out and turned into mushroom food. Each body and body part you decompose will earn you more turns. The puzzle is complete once you run out of bodies to get rid of.

This is one of the first puzzles you see in Mycelium Heaven in the Autumn levels. — Gross, but also somehow kind of pretty.

As each season passes, Mycelium Heaven‘s puzzles gain more and more types of zombies and bodies to decompose, more challenging puzzles, and a different background to match the weather. To complete them, you just click on the square that you want to interact with; each carcass requires you to click on it twice, and you have to click it again to spread your mushroom-y roots over to new, blocked locations.

The Pros of Mycelium Heaven

Mycelium Heaven is great for what it is. It’s a cartoony, silly take on a classic puzzle game, with 120 levels to complete. It has a lot of unique interactions that make it feel fresh and different while still being pretty recognizable and not too taxing to pick up and understand. The puzzles start pretty easy as you learn new mechanics, and then they get harder and harder in a way that you are prepared for in the tutorial levels.

This Winter level in Mycelium Heaven is a smaller level with immovable stones introduced. — It’s weird that a zombie game is pretty, isn’t it?

The aesthetics are on point in Mycelium Heaven. The music and sound effects are exactly what you probably imagine them to be from the screenshots; the sound design is really fitting and well done. The puzzles are challenging, but you are introduced to new concepts slowly enough that it never feels out of reach. All the buttons are clear and well-marked, so you always know how many turns and bodies you have remaining, and everything is easy to read at a glance.

It’s cartoony and not a graphic depiction of rotting corpses and body parts; everything is presented in a very silly way in the game, so it would also be appropriate for younger puzzle enthusiasts. I feel kids who enjoy the aesthetic of things like Coraline and The Corpse Bride would also love the look of Mycelium Heaven.

This Autumn level in Mycelium Heaven is a larger level with moving zombies to decompose. — I love the faces on the pumpkins.

The Cons of Mycelium Heaven

While I didn’t experience any bugs while playing this toadstool-infested game, I did have a few issues with it. I found the puzzles to be a little too challenging at times; I felt like many of the puzzles only had one single solution, which made it feel a little bit limiting when I wanted some creative freedom. I think that is just my personal preference, though. I liked the puzzles up to a point; I didn’t get past level 55 or so because it just got too hard for my brain to parse.

I also did not enjoy the sounds; I muted it for most of my playthrough. The sounds were fitting for the zombie theme, but they were too squelchy for my liking. It was probably the most graphic part of Mycelium Heaven, and it gave me the heebie-jeebies. I think this is one of those titles that you might be better off putting away your headphones for.

Overall, Mycelium Heaven was clean, polished, well-made, and the puzzles offered a great challenge. However, I just don’t think it’s a game for me. I found myself frustrated more than having fun like I have with other similar puzzle games. I don’t think that was Mycelium Heaven‘s fault, however, but more personal preference. I think if it had a hint system or a way to skip specific levels you were stuck on, I would have had a lot more fun with it.

This Winter level in Mycelium Heaven is a larger level with immovable stones introduced. — Phew, that one was hard!

Conclusion

I did not entirely enjoy my time with Mycelium Heaven, but I think that was on me. It’s just not my type of game. It’s very death-centric in a way that just didn’t appeal to me. The graphics were cute, but the subject matter, coupled with the very goopy corpse sounds, turned me off completely. Overall, I believe Mycelium Heaven is a great game for a very specific audience, and I am just not part of that audience.

While my rating for the game is “I Like It A Lot”, think of it more as “The Right Person Will Like It A Lot.” It’s a well-made, beautiful, interesting, and unique game. Given its polish, I am certain that if you like this kind of game and are looking for some very difficult puzzles, Mycelium Heaven could be the perfect pick for you.

Final Verdict: I Like it a Lot.