
Cozy third-person gardening in 1643 France. As Agnès, restore a forbidden abbey garden, grow and identify real plants through the seasons, uncover a spy plot, help the community, and find queer romance.
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About
Port-Royal-des-Champs is quiet now. But it isn’t empty.
The stones remember. The garden does too.

You are Agnès, a young peasant trusted with a noble task. The Abbess has given you the keys to her personal garden - a place even the mysterious Solitaires living near the abbey are forbidden to enter. What was once majestic has been swallowed by weeds and years.
Take your time. Pull back the wild growth, reveal old paths, and decide what this garden becomes. As the story advances, new areas open up, inviting you deeper into a holy place that’s slowly waking again.
Sometimes restoration is just patience.
Sometimes it’s the first step into something larger.

The garden is alive with real flora, and it behaves like a real ecosystem. Plant seeds, water them, and learn what makes each species thrive. Soil type matters. Moisture matters. Even proximity to other plants matters. There’s no rigid grid here - you’re gardening in a natural, free-form space.
As the seasons turn, discover and identify plants across every stage of their growth. When the moment is right, gather flowers, leaves, and seeds for botany. Your knowledge grows alongside the garden.
Notice what flourishes.
Notice what struggles.
Then gently make it right.

This garden was never only a garden. Hidden objects lie in the overgrowth and ruins, waiting to be found. Each discovery fills out your collections and can trigger new quests and quiet conversations. The abbey holds a long history of wonders - and of things deliberately forgotten.
Among what you uncover is a book written by a deceased spy. Its meaning is dangerous, and the wrong hands are already searching for it. Work with the local community to understand what it says before the British and French royals do.
The dirt hides more than roots.
Keep digging.

Even with court drama and espionage in the background, your days remain peaceful. The Abbess Garden is cozy at heart - a small world where you garden at your own pace, completing gentle quests and tending plants until they’re happy. Progress the story whenever you feel ready, letting it unfold linearly as you restore life to the abbey grounds.
You’ll meet NPCs based on real historical figures and events. You’ll help neighbors. You’ll piece together a quiet conspiracy. And somewhere in all that softness and sunlight, you may find a lover - a romance that grows naturally, like everything else here.
A sanctuary.
A mystery.
A garden that needs you.
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Languages: English
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Reviews
Really nice and relaxing game ! Love the story, the gardening, the design and especially the music ! Can't wait to play more and discover the whole story ! I love to see the plants growing and different stages of them. Really good job for a first indie game, I will follow the studio and see if they will release other games in the future !
wonderful so far will review when done
Nice relaxing cozy game. Great music. I love the historical context.
original, apaisant
Really nice game. I try and love the demo. Now i can finish the story. "Port Royal mon amour" as can say Agnes.
Really fun little game. I really enjoyed the art and the drawings of the flowers within the journal. I'm really interested in the mystery-aspect of the game and the who-dun-it type vibe. Can't wait to play more. A few typos, but nothing of real issue of other bugs. I do wish the music would consistently play but it seems like it tends to end and then go quiet for a while and repeat again. Other than this I don't mind the animations, given the context of the game itself.
Oh I like this game. I finished all achievements except 1.. the solomonnnnnnnnnnn.. the day Agnes go, the Solomon already in vegetation state.. so cannot continue or should I play again from beginning? You need to think how to manage the plants.. In this game, you have to complete the monthly quest so the month can end. Like talk to everyone and finished the monthly quest. For me, the hardest part is how to get the all stages from the specific plant.. The annoying part is the UI, especially if you have all the plant seeds with the name of the seedling is already covered with the seed image, it also covered by the door and the seedling column extends beyond the screen. You have to be really tricky to click on them.. But over all I like it tho.. keep at the good works.. Note: I get all the achevements!! So it seem that the reason why I cannot get the solomon's was due to the Plant a seed UI.. The solomon's seed now show up because of that! Thanks to miss_j_klein for the guide~
Really wanted to like this, but the interface for the garden was infuriating and cumbersome, and the dialog seemed to assume I was already well-versed in the history and social structures of the time period, as well as being awkwardly written, badly localized, and oddly paced.
Right after I started playing the game, I could feel how I de-stress. :-) It's a cozy, story-driven gardening game with plenty of gardening details to be discovered.
J'ai quasiment fini le jeu, globalement j'ai passé un bon moment et j'ai trouvé l'aspect botanique très sympa. Ce que j'ai aimé : - le mix Histoire de France / botanique, j'ai appris plein de choses. - l'aspect cozy, c'est calme et contemplatif ce que j'ai moins aimé : - j'ai trouvé un peu dommage que les parties dialogues ne soient pas plus vivantes (par exemple avec des portraits de personnages avec quelques expressions différentes) - quelques difficultés sur la partie botanique car les commandes sont parfois approximatives - J'aurais aimé qu'il y ait une petite partie craft pour réaliser les onguents et mélanges de tisane, pour approfondir la partie connaissance des plantes. Malgré ces moins, j'ai apprécié mon séjour à Port-Royal des Champs.
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