Today’s Niche Spotlight is Strange Horticulture, a puzzle game about running an occult plant shop by Bad Viking and Iceberg Interactive.
You are the horticulturalist of a quaint rural town called Undermere. Raise plants and complete orders for a cast of colorful characters, all while entangled in an occult mystery hundreds of years old. Explore the lands surrounding Undermere to collect plants and herbs while avoiding dangerous areas that threaten to erode your very sanity. Identify and catalogue mysterious new flora to uncover their special properties and potential uses.
You can find the launch trailer below.
Strange Horticulture is available on Windows PC via GOG and Steam for $14.99.
You can find a rundown (via Steam) below:
STRANGE HORTICULTURE is an occult puzzle game about collecting and cataloguing powerful plants
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
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
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!An Ever-Growing Collection
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.
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