Strange Horticulture is our favourite puzzle game of the year 🪴🏆 BadVikingGames
In a strong year for both mystery games and games where you run a kooky shop, Strange Horticulture's combination of the two managed to be the best at both. Customers come to your shop with problems large and small, whether a rash they'd like to find a natural cure for or a funeral that needs appropriate floral arrangements. Solving puzzles to identify the unusual plants you stock lets you help those customers, and eventually their problems propagate into more unsettling mysteries.
I also love that it has just enough friction to push against my desire to keep the shop neat and tidy—to create a little haven of order and ritual. I spent a long time alphabetising my plants, but each morning one particular plant would wander somewhere new—an element of chaos to remind me that the natural world won't always play by my rules.
And even though you—the player—never leave your fixed point behind the desk, your character does. Their exploits are told purely through drawings and text descriptions, and you read about them from the safety of the shop. Thanks to this, the world doesn't feel small or contained. The map suggests mystery, adventure and discovery, and working out the likely location of a new plant or encounter can still feel dramatic, even as it plays out in a small window on your screen.
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