Strange Horticulture

客から植物の特徴を聞き、手持ちの植物の中からどれが正解なのか探す。手持ちの中になければマップ探索からイベントをこなす。 たまに小さい謎解きがあるものの、基本的なゲーム部分はかなりシンプル。（そういう意味で Papers Please に近いと言われているのかな） 「テーブルゲームが好きでこのゲームのアートワークや雰囲気も好き。それだけあれば最低限満足！」な人であれば買ってもいいと思うものの、 そうでなければゲーム部分の味が薄いと感じたため個人的にはあんまりおすすめできない。

It's beautifully animated and I love the premise.

Loved everything about this -- the music, the vibes, the story, the puzzles, the mechanics. My only complaint is that I want more.

This is a cute game, and I enjoyed playing it. I liked the story, I liked that you could get the same endings to the story with different characters being alive/dead/in other states, and I liked the overall puzzle mechanics. I really like cute visual details like the candles being blown out when the day ends. I do wish this game was further developed. It feels like a great start to something that just wasn't finished. Once you complete the main story, having all of the plants left being catalogued through one long social interaction feels cheap. I wish there were a few days "epilogue" for those trying to identify all plants, with customers coming in for the remaining plants. Nothing against Simone, but maybe if she came in with one book question per day, it would feel less like a quick grind at the end to get completion. I also wish certain mechanics were used more. Many puzzles kind of give you the answer, I wish we had more "????" plant prompts, either due to Latin name use, or visual/purpose description being the clue. Many things like that are introduced, and then occur only once or twice throughout the game. I really liked that different endings had you brewing different elixirs. I wish that was expanded a bit. I wish each route had a few more things exclusive to them, to make it feel like you're diverging more than just a few actions in the last few days. Similarly, I wish you could decline customer requests. Not only would that feel more realistic if you're playing a certain route, like "ooh I'm an evil cultist this time, I'm not going to help the sister" but also just because the Elixir of the Damned customer breaks my heart. I'm aware that this would break the game, as the rewards for filling requests are how one progresses, but I wish there were alternate ways to go forward. Overall this was a good game, it just feels simple/unfinished. I bought it at a steep discount, and it was well worth what I spent on it, but if I had payed full price for it, it wouldn't be worth it, in my opinion.

Cute and fun game, nice and relaxing to play at my leisure thank you devs for making a nice game :)

Really great game about discovery of plants through a variety of well designed puzzles. Took a little over 6 hours on my first play through.