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 is a puzzle-adventure game developed by Bad Viking, released in 2022 for PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, iOS, and Android. Players take on the role of a herbalist running a plant shop in Undermere, a small town bordered by forests and mountains with a reputation for darker things. As customers visit the store, they draw the shopkeeper into an occult mystery with roots stretching back centuries. Gameplay centers on identifying plants using an encyclopedia and contextual clues gathered during explorations of the surrounding wilderness, then applying those plants' properties — ranging from hallucinogens to poisons — to shape the unfolding narrative. Venturing beyond the shop carries risks, as the landscape is not always welcoming. Along the way, players may interact with a coven, encounter a cult, and tend to a cat, while piecing together Undermere's deeply unsettling secrets.
