It's the simulation of a fantasy job in a fantastical world. Strange Horticulture isn't a puzzle, it's a guessing game, literally. Often hints to interesting locations will be vague so you have another thing to guess at. Once it's full you can get the map out and explore by choosing a location. Letters, and fulfilling tasks in the shop raises your will-to-travel bar. Your post often comes from benefactors traveling around Strange Horticulture's surprisingly big world - people who have come across a plant and describe where you can find it. Once a day, the postman brings you a letter. Once you can match a plant to a name, you can stick a little label on it. You can get an additional hint by looking at the plant through your microscope. The plants in Strange Horticulture have all been created for the game, and there's a lot of love in their individual design, both visually and in their descriptions.Īt first you don't know the names of the plants on your shelves, so you check in your trusty plant encyclopedia and make an educated guess based on the visual description, or the description of a plant's properties. The core gameplay loop is rather simple - clicking on the bell on your counter simulates a customer calling on you, requesting a plant for medicinal use or other purposes. As a player, you can interact with the desk and its contents, as well as plants, of course. You are the horticulturist, nameless and mostly voiceless, welcoming patrons into a shop that consists of many shelves of different vibrantly coloured plants and flowers, as well as a desk with a drawer. Availability: Out on PC on 21st of January.Strange Horticulture calls itself a puzzle, but it isn't a puzzle in any way I associate with the word. It's an exciting thing, but also deeply inconvenient when part of your job requires you to, well, describe games. Even after many years of playing video games, I still sometimes come across some I don't quite know how to describe.
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