
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.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 3.71/day in the week to Aug 22 → 10.71/day in the week after.
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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.
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Sums Steam only; PlayStation, GOG, Nintendo, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $15.99 | 16.1Kreviews | 94% | — | $7.6M |
| $15.99 | 228ratings | 91% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
I am very conflicted writing this review. On one hand, I really enjoyed the plot and how your actions had consequences in terms of the endings you can achieve. Whoever created all of the plants did a wonderful job and put a lot of love into them! On the other hand though, I found that the every-day tasks of identifying those plants and using the map to solve puzzles to be quite cumbersome. The design is great, but the execution needs some polishing. In my opinion, I think the game could greatly benefit from some quality-of-life changes such as: a search function on the map as well as the book, and the ability to write notes for yourself. Some of the puzzles/recipes/etc are complex and follow several trains of thought that I struggled to memorize, and having to navigate back and forth between different tools to recall previous steps you need to accomplish became tiring quickly. I'm unsure how this criticism will be received, but I also feel that there are too many plants. There are so many to keep track of, and the labeling system seems almost useless: the labels are so small you cannot read them without hovering over them, and trying to find the plant you need (even after having identified it) requires tedious amounts of time either looking through your shelves or, in my case, resorting to cross-referencing descriptions from your book because you forgot a plant's name or what it looks like because there are so many and using the book is faster (but then, if you are using the book anyway, why bother identifying andlebeling plants at all?). Personally, I think the game could benefit from less plants and maybe more elixirs (there are only 5 of these) which you could craft in different combinations with these fewer ingredients. The other piece I take issue with is re-playability. For a $20 game, I don't feel you get your money's worth in terms of story content. I completed the game with one ending in 11 hours, but do not feel motivated to go for the other endings because the ending is such a small portion of the game and having to repeat all the tedium of identifying the same several dozen plants that I won't remember, on top of listening to the same story, does not sound fun. Perhaps maybe having another 2 or 3 storylines/problems to solve could help keep the game feeling fresh. The Epilogue also consistents of you basically identifying the remaining dozen plants you didn't use in the main storyline, supporting my opinion that there are just too many plants.
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch +3 more
| $15.99 |
| 147ratings |
| 88% |
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| $14.99 | — | 92% | — | not modelled |
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Hours played at review time, across 1K reviews with recorded playtime.
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怎么说呢,感觉是比较考验耐心比较挑人的游戏。 建议史低购入吧ww我算是比较爱玩解谜类了但依然不觉得这部有多么好玩 植物堆放有点烦,内容还挺有意思的但个人觉得没有很触动,相比这部我会更喜欢药剂工艺和va11
this game seriously satiated that collector in me. i loved completing quests for customers to gather plants on the map, and also figure out their specific orders to help their needs. i have to admit i used an ign guide for most days to attempt to unlock majority of the achievements in one go and figuring out the tarot cards. i love this puzzle aspect of the game, but i struggled so bad with figuring them out LOL. since i played with a steam deck, the magnifying glass was extremely helpful when reading letters/looking through the map/reading my customers' dialogue. it was so so efficient and it was easily activated with my controller. would 100% recommend this game if you like collecting things!!! and for the story, obviously :)
Потрясающая медитативная головоломка с невероятно уютной, но слегка жутковатой атмосферой. Эта игра не ведет вас за ручку, а заставляет действительно думать, сопоставлять подсказки и рассматривать каждый лепесток. Нужно изучать справочник, определять свойства трав и помогать странным посетителям, попутно распутывая мрачный мистический детектив. Очень рекомендую всем любителям неспешных, умных игр с приятной историей.
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
給中文玩家: 使用標籤功能的時候,key了文字按下enter前先用滑鼠點一下標籤,確定底線消失再按enter,標籤就能順利上去了。或直接在設定裡開啟自動標籤功能,只要在遊戲過程中正確使用該植物,標籤就會自動上好。 遊戲預設的字體是標楷體,建議直接去設定選簡化文本,眼睛會舒服一些。 有圖鑑,有解謎,有多結局。 文字量滿多的,遊戲過程中取得的紙條、信件大小不一,在欄位裡會重疊、互相遮擋,想回頭檢視的時候總讓人覺得有點小困擾。 但總結來說還是個好玩的遊戲,推薦。
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
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.
Tras jugar a este juego, nada me preparó para el nivel de confianza con el que empecé a recomendar plantas en la vida real sin tener absolutamente ninguna licencia para hacerlo.
i completed this game on my switch before buying it here and achievement hunting to celebrate finishing my masters in horticulture :) it's my first 100% completed game! it's cozy & not too demanding with a really cute aesthetic. great if you want to chill for a few hours with some low stakes puzzle solving. i definitely recommend completing it at least once without a guide or any spoilers. hunting for the rest of the achievements after your first playthrough is a breeze as long as you make some strategic saves!
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