To do so, players accumulate the "will to explore" by completing customer requests and watering plants.
Players are also able to discover new plants and progress the story by exploring locations on a grid-based map. Some requests possess multiple options to provide characters with plants that carry different effects, providing players with choices that will influence later events in the game. Successfully providing a customer with the correct plant allows the player to unlock further pages in the book, opening up further opportunities to identify and use plants in the game. To assist in identification, players have access to the Strange Book of Plants, an incomplete guide to the horticulture in the game that partially identifies plants by characteristics such as the scent, shape of leaves and petals, and remedial properties. Players organize and classify an unidentified collection of plants to complete puzzles based on requests made by customers to the store. Gameplay A screenshot of Strange Horticulture. How the player chooses to assist or hinder characters through the plants they provide them influences a branching storyline which ultimately determines the fate of the characters in the game. Members of the town visit the store to seek plants to use for their own ends, including Beth, a member of a nature-worshipping sisterhood, the Arduinna, in the nearby woods whose matron has died, Reuben, an officer investigating the murder, Ennis, a hermit from a mysterious cult known as the Seeds of Redemption seeking to summon a creature called the Woken Dendrew, and Forest, a hunter bent on sabotaging the hermit's plans.
In the small town of Undermere, the player inherits a store from their late uncle named Strange Horticulture, renowned for selling to customers botanic remedies carrying mystical and occasionally dangerous effects. The game appeared on several year-end lists as one of the best games of the year, and got nominated for the "Excellence in Design" award at the 2022 Independent Games Festival.
Released in January 2022, Strange Horticulture received praise from critics, with particular praise directed towards its immersive and intimate gameplay and the design and tone of its setting. Gameplay involves the completion of puzzles by matching the details of customer requests of plants to their descriptions, opening up access to more plants and identifying information. Described as an "occult puzzle game", Strange Horticulture involves the discovery and identification of a fictitious herbarium of plants for sale to a range of mysterious and unscrupulous customers. Strange Horticulture is a 2022 video game by British independent developer Bad Viking, published by Iceberg Interactive for Windows, Nintendo Switch, and macOS.
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