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Run an occult plant shop in Undermere, identify strange herbs, solve map clues, and shape a dark mystery with your choices.
Released 21 Jan 2022
Identify Strange Plants
Solve Map Riddles
Serve Unusual Customers
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Developed by Bad Viking · Published by Iceberg Interactive
Themes from a helpfulness-selected sample of Steam reviews, not the aggregate Steam score.
You run Strange Horticulture, a plant shop in the town of Undermere. As customers bring their needs to your counter, you become entangled in an occult mystery unfolding around the town.
Identify unfamiliar plants by comparing their features with an encyclopedia and clues from letters, conversations, and other sources. Use your growing collection to answer customer requests, while exploring locations on a map by solving riddles and interpreting clues.
Your plant choices can help or harm people and influence the story’s outcome. You can also label and arrange your collection, consult notes and tools, and care for the shop’s cat as the mystery develops across multiple days and possible endings.
Many supplied reviews appreciate the game’s moody, cozy atmosphere and its slow-paced mix of plant identification, map puzzles, and customer requests. Players often find the deduction and collection satisfying, and some enjoy how plant choices affect the unfolding mystery. Others say the repeated shop loop, plant organization, or searching the map can become tedious, and some criticize the interface or the short playthrough.
Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your growing collection to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Welcome to Undermere, a quaint town surrounded by hag-infested forests and rugged mountains. You are the Horticulturist, owner of local plant store Strange Horticulture. As a cast of colorful customers come by your shop, you are quickly thrust into an occult mystery stretching back hundreds of years.
Explore the lands beyond your store to find new plants, but be careful! The dark woods and lakes are not always friendly to a simple herbalist. You might discover powers beyond your wildest dreams - or lose your mind completely. Use context clues to determine which places to visit, and which to avoid!
Using your trusty encyclopedia and clues found on your explorations, you learn more about the strange plants you come across. By identifying each plant, you will be able to use their effects to influence the story -- from hypnotic hallucinogens to powerful poisons.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 18 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| Metacritic | 83/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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