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The Big Adventure Event Has Begun!

Dear Horticulturists,

The Big Adventure Event has kicked off! If you're not in the know, theBAE is an event that celebrates the beauty of adventure games, and we love a good adventure.

There are over a hundred amazing demos to try, so take a stroll over to the event page and experience the hours of content FOR FREE!



We should mention that we're planning on taking down the demo after the 24th. If you haven't given the game a try yet, now's the time!

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



Bad Viking Iceberg Interactive

Strange Horticulture review




Strange Horticulture is the best detective game I've played in years, and it's mostly about staring at plants. As the new owner of a small shop in a quaint Victorian town, I've only got three things: a small collection of unusual and unidentified plants, an aging botany book with a handful of entries, and my wits. With them I manage to solve dozens of little mysteries, untangle a few major ones, and save the world...
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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.


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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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