
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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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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This is an excellent game that screenshots and videos won't do it justice. I bought with very low expectations, only to find a very smart, atmospheric and occult-friendly game. This is very, very highly recommended. The only negative isi that the fonts are a bit small and I had to use the magnifying glass many times...
j'aime beaucoup ce jeu car il permet vraiment de prendre le temps et de ne pas être stressé. les énigmes sont très intéressantes à résoudre et ingénieuses. l'histoire est interessante et les graphismes sont stylés. en plus il y a un chat !! je recommande ce jeu absolument !
if you enjoy mystery and solving different type of puzzle alongside some herbalism i would recommend 100 %
REALLY fun puzzle solving and plot! Super enjoy. Cannot wait to get started on the artefacts one!
赤一天石的登先生,美滋滋地种了一晚上花
A wonderful game with rich storytelling, fun gameplay, and great puzzles! The plant designs are absolutely beautiful and the illustration of the Servant made me shiver
Awesome!
Absolutely amazing! I've only played through once (all in one sitting, whoops, who cares about sleep?) but I'm excited to play through again and again and try to get all the endings. I really want to make my own booklet with all the pictures. I WISH THERE WAS MERCH AVAILABLE! I noticed there was a plushie a while back, but I haven't even found anything on Etsy (except one beautiful cross stitch/embroidery pattern). *cries* I really want the map to put up on my wall! The art of this game is so beautiful. I am super excited to play the second game but want to find all the things I can in the first one first!
Очень понравилась! Это было прям то что нужно! достаточно простая, но увлекательная, комфортная игра для отвлечения и расслабления.
A cozy shopkeeper puzzle game. The plants all look cool and distinct, the shop and ambiance are great and you can pet the cat. Sadly, many of its mechanics didn't really work for me. The game is at its best when you're leaving the shop to explore the interesting map. Here are the strongest puzzles in the game, asking you to make deductions based on locations, working backwards from clues and abstract descriptions. Identifying a plant, the game's main mechanic, usually goes like this: You get the name from the customer and go to its page. The drawing is not specific enough for definite identification, but it narrows the options down. The description mentions something specific: a smell, a color, sharp leaves, thorns, etc. Right-click all plants that match the drawing and find the specific keyword from the description. Done. There is no need to identify relevant information or make your own deductions. Later, the game asks you to identify plants by their lore in the book. I dutifully read every new page before adding it to the book, expecting the knowledge would help me later. But, being a book, it has no search function. So I'd end up browsing one page after another, skimming the text to find the keywords I remembered from reading the pages earlier. With 50+ pages in the book, this was just tedious. I did not hate my time with this game, far from it. I'm just disappointed at the squandered potential that was here.
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Languages: English, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch +3 more
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