{"id":30657,"date":"2026-06-16T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=30657"},"modified":"2026-09-19T03:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T07:27:09","slug":"game-strange-horticulture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/game-strange-horticulture\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Horticulture"},"content":{"rendered":"\"StrangeTitle:<\/strong> Strange Horticulture<\/span>
Series:<\/strong> Undermere #1<\/a>
Publisher:<\/strong> Iceberg Interactive<\/a>
Developer:<\/strong> Bad Viking<\/a>
Release Date:<\/strong> January 21, 2022
Genres:<\/strong> Indie<\/a>, Narrative Adventure<\/a>, Puzzle<\/a>
Platform:<\/strong> macOS<\/a>, Microsoft Windows<\/a>, Nintendo Switch<\/a>, Xbox One<\/a>
Where to Buy:<\/strong> Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0Steam<\/a>
Rating:<\/strong> \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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.<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n

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Review<\/h2>\n

Strange Horticulture<\/em> is an atmospheric folk horror puzzle game where you play as a horticulturist, identifying plants to help your customers while an occult mystery unfolds day by day. This game thrusts you right in without tutorials but figuring things out came naturally, and I actually quite liked that there were no intrusive tutorials to break my immersion.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the gameplay consists of collecting and identifying plants. You start off with a decent handful, but it becomes clear quickly that you’ll need to venture out to collect more. The puzzle solving aspects of this game are really immersive. You take time to inspect plants and compare them to the notes in your plant book and sift through clues you receive throughout the game in the form of letters, scribbled drawings, and strange objects to find hidden messages.<\/p>\n

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I loved the variety in logic puzzles, it never felt repetitive and though some puzzles were challenging, they all made sense and were solvable without the use of a guide. There was just something so gratifying about opening my map and tracing clues to find where I needed to go. Though the setting of the story takes place is fictional, it’s heavily inspired by Northwestern England during the Victorian era which I really liked.<\/p>\n

The ongoing mystery was also enticing enough that I stayed up late to finish my first playthrough. There are multiple endings that will depend on your choices throughout the story, and some interesting little twists. The main cast of characters didn’t stand out much from the generic NPCs, but I didn’t mind this too much.<\/p>\n

I’ll admit that I passed over this game when it was first released and I regret doing so! I absolutely loved this game and immediately jumped to buy the developer’s other game Strange Antiquities<\/a><\/em>, which shares the same setting.<\/p>\n

Quote<\/h4>\n

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“The shepherd watched as she prepared the leaves and roots that she would require. He watched as the hours dragged by, the sunset, and she worked by candlelight, at times sitting still, at times moving like a dancer among the stones. The change happened suddenly but also subtly, so that at first the watcher was not sure that anything had happened. Then he saw it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Content Warnings<\/h4>\nView Spoiler »<\/a>Animal Cruelty, Death, Murder, Violence « Hide Spoiler<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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