The Abbess Garden

Ein wunderschönes, liebevoll gezeichnetes Cozy-Game! Für alle, die Planzen und Gärten lieben - und mit Hingabe und Herz gemachte Spiele.

Chill and relaxing. Really nice to play after a bad work day.

Well, the theme is charming. But...it is a kinetic novel with light planting elements. There is only one portrait for each character, the English localization is very bad, one character is a obviously style-breaking hasty repaint of another character, lag and memory leaks force restarting, and the gardening part takes place in a very buggy 3D environment rampant with unpathable bushes, places for your character to get stuck, and buggy UI with very poor click detection. Also, several of the achievements popped up at the wrong time. I will say the animations of the 3D character are very flavorful, although far too slow.

A chill, pleasant and well-executed first game from a small new indie studio.

A really nice cozy game! It’s well written, historically accurate, and very pleasant to play. The atmosphere is relaxing and enjoyable. Well done to the developers!

What a game ! I was coming without knowing what is ti but I like indi games and I wanted something different. At the beginning, very few blablabla and simples commands. A fairly simple objective and then, this music... This peace of mind... The perfect match between cool gameplay and different way of gaming. I love it.

Very short but sweet game, very linear but a nice way to spend an evening and I found the story quite enjoyable. Simple mechanics. Gardening gets a little tedious but not too bad

This game consists of two parts: the game play where you take care of the garden and the story, which you read outside of the garden. I will review these two parts separately since they really feel like completely separate items. First, the gameplay in the garden is fun and relaxing. I have only played the first part of the game, but there are many interesting plants and I found it fun to take care of the different plant's needs. I did have trouble clicking on specific plants if two plants were overlapping. I also found it difficult to see some parts of the garden since you can't rotate the camera view. Other than that the gameplay worked well. Secondly, outside of the garden is a story told through text that you read when talking to different characters. I personally found the story to detract from the game since it didn't seem to have much to do with the garden itself and I felt the storytelling needed some work. It also wasn't possible to quickly skip through the text. I felt that the characters didn't have a lot of development and came across as lacking personality. This led me to having trouble following their motivation for doing different things. I also want to call out that a large part of the story is a lesbian romance. Although I have nothing against a developer making a game with a lesbian romance this was not called out anywhere on the store page before I bought the game and I almost feel that it was intentionally hidden. I will admit that I probably would not have bought the game if I had known just because I'm not personally interested in queer romances. I think it would be good if this was pointed out up front on the store page both to warn people that are not interested away from the game, but also to let people that are interested in a simple lesbian romance story know that this game might be for them.

Relaxing and lovely

followed this game's development journey for a long time and it has so far thoroughly lived up to my expectations - highly recommend! <3