Strange Horticulture

This game was so fun! I really enjoyed solving the puzzles -- they were challenging and used a wide variety of puzzle solving techniques.

An extremely mid puzzle game with a lot of unnecessary components. Neither good nor bad - just mid. PROS: -Plant ID puzzles are good -Map puzzles are mostly good (a few are too vague) NEUTRAL: -Enable the "auto label" option. Otherwise you have to manually type the name of each plant when you ID it. Why is this even an option? CONS: -Its possible to get a request for a plant that you don't have. If this happens, there is no way to get past it. You must find the missing plant first. -A few of the puzzles are incredibly vague and require tedious process of elimination to find the answer. -"Traveling" requires you to sit there and water your plants for no reason. Total waste of time. -The story, NPCs, dialogue are completely pointless and add nothing to the game.

A great concept that did not fully bloom. The idea is great: a mysterious plant shop, strange customers, occult hints, map clues, and plant identification based on descriptions and pictures. The map puzzle was nice, using clues to find locations and unlock new plants. It is a nice concept, but it never felt as involved as it could have been. The same goes for most of the game. The atmosphere and soundtrack are mysterious enough, but not especially impressive. The plants look nice, and identifying them can be interesting at first, but once a plant is named, it feels like the puzzle around it is basically done. I also never saw much reason to revisit known plants, which made the whole system feel a bit unfinished. Some mechanics are there, but do not seem to matter much. You can water plants, for example, but it does not appear to affect the plants themselves in any meaningful way. And if a customer asks for a plant you have not found yet, there is no clean way to skip them. I had to wait through several map attempts until I finally found the plant needed to proceed. The mystery also never really hooked me. There are bits of background from the people who visit the store, but after four in-game days and around two hours, it still had not grown into something compelling. TL;DR; A good idea, with some clever elements here and there, but overall it felt underwhelming. 5/10

I finished my first playthough and the game itself is lovely! I had a rather hard time figureing out some puzzles and plants, but overall it was a good experienace. However, I dislike that there's no sort of save file system before/after choices to make getting certain endings easier -- You have to replay the game in it's entirety almost eight times if you want all of the achivements. It gets redundant after awhile, as you can't skip anything.

가벼운 추리와 도감작 좋아한다면 강력 추천할 만한 입문용 게임 진짜 과하지 않은 선에서 각종 추리를 시키는데, 시간 가는줄 모르고 플레이했다 다 됐고 이 게임 번역자께 경의를 표합니다. 어색한 곳이 단 한 곳도 없었어... 사람 아닌 거 같아...(P) 이하 불만 사항 도감에 그림을 내가 그려도 이것보다 더 자세하겠어, 삼촌. 연필 이리 내놔봐. 키보드가 외롭다 합니다 선생님들. 하다못해 탐험할 의지에만이라도 배치를 해 주지... 슬슬 손가락이 아퍼요 튜토리얼이 집 나갔어요. 초반에 단 하나도 안알려줌. 육성으로 어? 소리 나옴 한 화면에 다 때려박으면 어떻게 해요... 복잡하고 에임 다 흐트러지고 불편 (볼륨이 이렇게 작은 걸 생각하면 이해는 되지만 그래도 과했다고 봅니다) 외에는 다 괜찮았던 게임

Повёлся на огромное количество положительных отзывов. Ожидал что-то в духе Papers, Please, который мне понравился. Только там были прикольный сюжет, развилки и атмосфера. Сори, но здесь ничего этого нет. Это, наверное, самая унылая игра в мире. Если у вас бессонница, попробуйте запустить её. Я уверен, что через полчаса вы будете спать как младенец.

Ich habe dieses Spiel nicht nur einmal gespielt – ich musste direkt zwei Durchläufe machen! Mein innerer, düsterer Pflanzen-Nerd hat einfach keine Ruhe gegeben. Strange Horticulture liefert die perfekten „Dark Cozy Vibes“: Es ist verregnet, mysteriös und voller okkulter Geheimnisse. Trotzdem fühlt es sich an, als würde man sich an einem stürmischen Sonntag mit einer Decke und einer heißen Tasse Tee einkuscheln. (Und ja, man kann die Katze streicheln!). Der Rätselfaktor ist genial. Man muss das Gehirn einschalten und Hinweise kombinieren, fühlt sich nach jedem gelösten Rätsel aber wie das größte botanische Genie der Welt. Für diesen Preis ist die Spielzeit (vor allem durch den Wiederspielwert für andere Endungen) und der Rätselspaß absolut unschlagbar. Fazit: Schnappt euch die Gießkanne, öffnet das Hexenbuch und kauft dieses Spiel. Absolute Empfehlung!