Strange Horticulture tasks you with finding the herbal solutions to peoples’ problems. What plants and flowers you use can change where this tale goes, though.
You’re a talented horticulturist in the town of Undermere. Which isn’t a bad place to be if you’re interested in odd flowers, plants, and mushrooms. There’s lots of wild growth in the surrounding area. The kind of stuff that can give you wild powers and have all manner of effects when used just right. You just need to be very careful with the stuff and what you do with it. You also need to be careful while poking around the woods for it, too, as there is an eerie occult mystery to this realm. The kind of mystery where bad things happen to the people seeking answers.
Depending on what you find (and can identify using your books on plants), you can start working to help the locals with some of their problems. They’ll come to you with a variety of issues that can be cured with your herbal remedies, and I’m sure they appreciate it when you’re helpful. However, you’re the person mixing these concoctions. The one who actually knows what all these plants will do with one another. What happens if you whip up a placebo instead of the medicine someone needs? How does the story shift if you slip someone something a bit more dangerous? What truths can you pry out by making some sneaky decisions about ingredients?
Strange Horticulture offers some intriguing narrative possibilities in the freedom it gives you with your plants and their uses. Guiding a mystery tale using those plants in clever ways made for an adventure like few I’ve tried before. Can’t say I’ve ever changed a story using plants before.
Strange Horticulture is available now on the Epic Games Store, GOG, and Steam.
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