Shooting, chasing, exploring - hit video games tend to have themes that set the pulse racing.

One of the world's most popular new titles, however, is about something considerably more sedate - gardening.

Grow a Garden involves players slowly developing a little patch of virtual land. It's something that, earlier this month, more than 16m people - many of them children - chose to spend their weekend doing.

That smashed a record for concurrent players set by the somewhat more adrenalin-filled Fortnite.

What is it about this plant-growing simulation that has got so many people hooked - and could it persuade more people into real-life gardens?