Strange Horticulture News

Strange Horticulture review: quiet, meticulous, delightful, dark and beguiling

Ah, to be good with plants. Apparently it was a thing, wasn't it, that my generation all got into house plants, especially during lockdown. A friend of mine has a positively ebullient front room full of lush, green darlings that have names like Hercules. My brother-in-law, absent any real space, has mounted glass spheres of water on his wall and grows little flowers and trailing vines from them. I, on the other hand, am a plant killer. Apart from in Strange Horticulture, when I run a spooky and ethereal plant shop in a town called Undermere, in an alternate-universe version of The Lake District. There, my plants are happy and weird, and with them I can save the world.

Strange Horticulture Developer Playthrough — THE BIG ADVENTURE EVENT

Hey folks!

We're excited to be a part of The Big Adventure Event starting January 20th! So excited that we're doing a special little stream of Strange Horticulture.

Join us as we play through the first hour of the game, adding some of that special developer commentary sauce. Who is our favorite resident of Undermere? Only one way to find out!

Tune in on Saturday January 22nd at 4PM GMT on The Big Adventure Event page, or on our very own Steam page. You can see the start time converted to your local time in the sidebar to the right.

Bad Viking

Iceberg Interactive

Become a plant detective in this occult botany shop puzzle game next week

If Wordle has you staring at letters this week, Strange Horticulture will have you staring at flowers, leaves, thorns, and roots next week. In the puzzle game from developer Bad Viking, you've inherited a spooky little plant shop in the quaint little Victorian town of Undermere. As quirky and mysterious customers come in asking to buy plants you'll need to crack your tome of botany knowledge, closely examine the plants in your store, and figure out exactly what your customers want based on their descriptions...
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Strange Horticulture Coming January 21st!

Dear Horticulturists,

First off, happy new year! In 2021 we announced Strange Horticulture to the world, and we're so happy to see so many of you share our excitement for everything plants, witches, mysteries, and Hellebore.

We also mentioned that we'd go into full bloom "early 2022", and that's still very much the truth. It is our distinct pleasure to announce that Strange Horticulture will release on Friday January 21st! If you want to get in the minute the game goes live, we'd suggest joining us on Discord

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We can't wait for you all to get your hands on the full plant-identifying, mystery-solving, cat-petting experience that Strange Horticulture has to offer. For those who haven't given the demo a whirl yet, we're keeping it up until a few days after the game launches. If you want to give the game a try, now's the time!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574580/Strange_Horticulture/

And in other news, Strange Horticulture has been nominated for the Excellence in Design award at the Independent Games Festival! Super honored to be nominated, and fingers crossed that we win!

That's it from us, we'll see you again on the 21st when we're going into full bloom!

P.S. We picked up a couple of plants since we started working on Strange Horticulture ;)

Bad Viking

Iceberg Interactive

Run an eldritch plant shop in Strange Horticulture this month

Ever since Alice Bee first played Strange Horticulture, she's raved about the mysteries and merchandising of running a weird plant shop. Lots of studying and cataloguing plants, serving customers, and feeling proud of your wee business. Plus solving mysteries in ways only an occult plant shop owner can. Not long to wait now, as the makers announced today that the game will launch on the 21st of January.