Become a plant detective in this occult botany shop puzzle game next week | PC Gamer - hopkinsdics1976

Become a plant detective in this occult botany snitch pose gamy next week

(Envision credit: Bad Viking)

If Wordle has you staring at letters this week, Strange Horticulture wish have you staring at flowers, leaves, thorns, and roots next week. In the puzzle game from developer Bad Viking, you've inherited a spooky little plant shop in the old-time lowercase Victorian town of Undermere. American Samoa quirky and mysterious customers come in request to buy plants you'll need to snap your tome of botany cognition, closely examine the plants in your memory boar, and puzzle out incisively what your customers want supported on their descriptions.

I've played the free demo of Strange Horticulture, and it's delightful. You'Re essentially a plant detective piecing unitedly ivied clues. Your customer might know the name of the institut they want, so you take to find IT in your book and match it with a plant on your shelf founded on just a few actor's line of verbal description and a sketch. Some customers Crataegus laevigata non know the name of the plant but will undergo a fewer scraps of information about it, comparable that it has red flowers or that it's supposed to help some taxon affliction, so you'll ingest to tight examine your plants and page through your book looking for a match.

This largely mirrors my experience of working in a bookstore where customers would come in with only the vaguest thought of the book they're looking. "I know the cover is blue," they'd say. "Maybe the rubric has white lettering? And it's astir a murder in a village." And then off I'd go, wracking my brain for something I might take seen months ago while stocking the shelves.

There's also a roomy map to explore as you invite clues to the location of new, undiscovered plants to add to your shop, and as you serve customers and chaffer distant locations both your compendium of plants and your tome of knowledge will grow. And not everyone is looking for a constitute that will help their digestion or sharpen their vision. There's a grim and dangerous closed book flowering while you play, and some shadowy customers will attempt to hale you deeper into it.

The exhibit alone covers the first couple days of flying your shop, and ever since I played it I've been eager for more. Strange Horticulture releases along Steam on January 21.

Chris started playacting PC games in the 1980s, started composition about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, likely so he'd occlusion emailing them asking for more ferment. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy enchantment with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a rooter of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he pot make up his own.