Posted on: September 13, 2025
marlinspike
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 2
Relaxing game
Relaxing little braine teaser of a game.
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Strange Horticulture
Description
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.
Strange Horticulture © 2017-2022 Bad Viking Games. Developed by Bad Viking Games. Licensed exclusively worldwide to and published by Iceberg Interactive B.V. All brands, product names, and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Made in the UK.
Popular achievements
Apprentice
Identify 10 plants
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49.12%
Back from the Brink
Recover from Rising Dread
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34.37%
Beginnings
Handle your first customer
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55.03%
Ending
Complete the game
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30.01%
Explorer
Visit 20 map locations
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43.64%
Hidden Texts
Activate the viewing device
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36.42%
Master Brewer
Create an Elixir
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35.58%
A Mystery Solved
Find a Bryer's Disc location
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38.59%
On the Map
Solve your first clue card
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49.54%
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6.5 h Main + Sides
9 h Completionist
6.5 h All Styles
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Critics reviews
PC Gamer
90/100
A beautiful and engrossing detective game packed with mysteries, puzzles, and intrigue.
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4.5/5
Puzzle design that truly excels in creating simple yet challenging orders.
Read full review »TechRaptor
8.5/10
Strange Horticulture is an excellently entertaining romp, featuring great puzzles, an intriguing mystery and gorgeously ambient sound effects.
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Posted on: September 19, 2025
ThisGreenFairy
Verified ownerGames: 90 Reviews: 1
The ambience - I love it!
It's athmospheric, mysterious, not hard but fun anyway - I wish there were many more games like this!
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Posted on: September 20, 2025
nomorename
Verified ownerGames: 86 Reviews: 34
Interesting Plant Detective with BAD UI
You are a plant detective with most of the puzzles being either figuring out which plant it is based on a short description and sketch, or secondarily which part of the map to go to (usually to get more plants). It should be very quick to gauge whether you like going through the individual descriptions and plants checking if they match Some might find it peaceful and atmospheric esp as there is NO time pressure despite some indicators like the candles. Others will find it either annoying or understand how quick it will become tedious. Still even for those who like the main loop, there are many design and UI flaws. PLEASE check out the options - it includes two "fixes" for things that likely too many people complained about - making the text more legible (and generally bigger) and auto marking plants you've verified. Outside the two "fixes" there are still the following: No way to quickly search or sort the plants even once labeled Shelf becomes too crowded and hard to clear up space to sort the plants No way to mark the map or quickly search the locations Needing to wait to explore the map is pointless. Esp. as there's already risk of increasing madness that does the same and is more interesting. Often the table becomes too crowded with just the viewer, book and maybe one clue New plants and potions are just inserted in the middle You'd think the magnifier are for the plants, but nope - most likely using them on the various small text/map Additionally I felt that the story and puzzles could have been more developed. They are fine as it is, but become stale and did not care enough to get all the endings.
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Posted on: October 11, 2025
Anniken66
Verified ownerGames: 3 Reviews: 1
Lovely mystery game
Lovely mystery game in a calm atmosphere
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Posted on: October 12, 2025
whisk4s
Verified ownerGames: 137 Reviews: 1
Relaxing memory game
Identify plants and grow your collection by venturing the countryside. Also something sinister is happening in the woods around town...
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