Strange Horticulture
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…
Strange Horticulture is an adventure developed by Bad Viking, released 21 January 2022 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The main story takes about 7.3 hrs to finish.
What Strange Horticulture is
Strange Horticulture is an adventure game developed by Bad Viking and released in 2022. It was published by Iceberg Interactive. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Strange Horticulture is a 2022 video game by British independent developer Bad Viking, published by Iceberg Interactive for Windows, Nintendo Switch, macOS and Xbox One. Described as an "occult puzzle game", Strange Horticulture involves the discovery and identification of a fictitious herbarium of plants for sale to a range of mysterious and unscrupulous customers. Gameplay involves the completion of puzzles by matching the details of customer requests of plants to their descriptions, opening up access to more plants and identifying information.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 18 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Strange Horticulture holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 59 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 11.5 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 512 MB display memory. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Strange Horticulture launched on 21 January 2022, within three weeks of Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Vampire Survivors, Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 9 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Vampire Survivors, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Strange Horticulture yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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