
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 3.71/day in the week to Aug 22 → 10.71/day in the week after.
About

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.
Genres
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, GOG, Nintendo, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $15.99 | 16.1Kreviews | 94% | — | $7.6M |
| $15.99 | 228ratings | 91% | — | not modelled | |
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Engagement
Reviews
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Reviews
I don't know, maybe. This game is boring. The gameplay loop goes like this: a customer comes in and asks for a plant, you open a book to find a description of the plant they want, you find the plant that matches that description and give it to them. Occasionally, you're asked to go to a specific spot on the map for more plants. No puzzle in this game requires you to think for more than a couple seconds. I wanted to see plants with special properties that you needed to identify in unique and clever ways, but no, most of the time you know the plant is the right one because its leaves or flowers look like the picture. The plot is "there's a world-ending plant and only YOU have the power to stop it!" I'm not kidding, that's the actual plot of the game. I just felt like you should know. For all its flaws though, I didn't really hate the process of finding the plants that customers wanted and cataloguing them, at least for an hour or two. I can see how it would be up some people's alley, but man, even for a cozy game I found it very dry. I just can't bring myself to recommend it to anybody.
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Every market we collect.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch +3 more
| $15.99 |
| 147ratings |
| 88% |
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| $14.99 | — | 92% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 1K reviews with recorded playtime.
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This is a really cool way to spend a few hours. The puzzles are sometimes difficult, but super rewarding when they click. Identifying the plants is interesting and fun. I enjoyed manually typing up the labels for the plants and elixirs. Overall, it's an immersive and enjoyably dark game with a good little chunk of lore. I wish it were longer!
植物学家模拟器,谢谢你圆了我的植物学家梦也破灭了我的植物学家梦,实在太枯燥了 没有收集癖/没有植物学家梦要圆的不建议玩,冲着解谜更不建议玩,玩法非常单一,解谜也是不能说没有意思但实在太单一了,玩了一个小时后看到新的谜题已经只剩“嗨又是你”的上班心情了 剧情既短小又简单其实只是套了个黑暗的壳子,既然内核只是这么简单的剧情,建议要么增加日常经营内容,把经营和收集植物与剧情解绑,让玩家在收集植物的同时自发地慢慢探索剧情;要么砍流程,这么短的剧情要打四个小时才能打全实在是太长了,玩到前面的时候就在想“不会是xxxx吧”但是安慰自己这也太简单了应该不会的,打了四个小时打到最后发现就是这样实在是没忍住冷笑一声然后哀悼我失去的四个小时
very cozy and calming. loved the puzzles, storytelling, and ofc hellebore. replayed it to see the different endings and still had fun. [spoiler] ♥♥♥♥ ennis tho [/spoiler]
Как же душно. Очень заинтересовала тема цветочной лавки, квестов и небольших приключений - звучит правда интересно, задумка хорошая. А вот исполнение не очень. Началось всё живенько, а с ходом игры становилось всё скучнее и скучнее, а желания бросать игру на полпути не было. А стоило. Из плюсов: 1) Интересный сеттинг; 2) Цветочки красивые 3) Местами интересные загадки и головоломки Минусы: 1) Неудобный коннект с любыми записками и письмами, постоянно их приходится перетаскивать то в ящик, то на стол; 2) Серая и предсказуемая концовка. 3) Очень неудобная работа с картой - какое-то дрочилово этих очков приключений, копятся не так уж и долго, но именно их недостаток стопил всю игру и приходилось поливать цветы чтобы сходить в какой-нибудь очередной лес. 4) В цветочном альманахе есть полное описание растений - запах, цвет, свойства. Но при работе с ним и цветами, кажется, что какой-то инвалид составлял характеристику, иногда приходилось обращаться к гуглу чтобы понять че от меня требуется 5) Некоторые головоломки и загадки супер нелогичные и думаешь "а как до этого догадаться без подсказок?" По итогу каждый пройденный день молилась чтобы игра поскорее кончилась. Если любите прям копаться в игре по несколько часов к ряду - пожалуйста, но если хотите поиграть с удовольствием, эт не сюда
Очень классная и атмосферная игра, интересная история и загадки, порадовало визуальное исполнение, очень порадовало разнообразие растений и их описания.
Really good game - so good my dumbass thought that the plants were real with their description and drawings.
it's fun to study the map and book and unlock new tools
I finished my first playthough and the game itself is lovely! I had a rather hard time figureing out some puzzles and plants, but overall it was a good experienace. However, I dislike that there's no sort of save file system before/after choices to make getting certain endings easier -- You have to replay the game in it's entirety almost eight times if you want all of the achivements. It gets redundant after awhile, as you can't skip anything.
A great concept that did not fully bloom. The idea is great: a mysterious plant shop, strange customers, occult hints, map clues, and plant identification based on descriptions and pictures. The map puzzle was nice, using clues to find locations and unlock new plants. It is a nice concept, but it never felt as involved as it could have been. The same goes for most of the game. The atmosphere and soundtrack are mysterious enough, but not especially impressive. The plants look nice, and identifying them can be interesting at first, but once a plant is named, it feels like the puzzle around it is basically done. I also never saw much reason to revisit known plants, which made the whole system feel a bit unfinished. Some mechanics are there, but do not seem to matter much. You can water plants, for example, but it does not appear to affect the plants themselves in any meaningful way. And if a customer asks for a plant you have not found yet, there is no clean way to skip them. I had to wait through several map attempts until I finally found the plant needed to proceed. The mystery also never really hooked me. There are bits of background from the people who visit the store, but after four in-game days and around two hours, it still had not grown into something compelling. TL;DR; A good idea, with some clever elements here and there, but overall it felt underwhelming. 5/10
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