Strange Horticulture, the critically acclaimed puzzle game, is expanding to more platforms. This year, PlayStation owners can finally visit and experience the mysteries in the fictional world of Undermere.
Bad Viking and Iceberg Interactive announced they will release Strange Horticulture on PS5 and PS4. Console players can get their hands on the occult game this February 23, the indie studios added.
Strange Horticulture's port to PlayStation came months after the game's Xbox release last August 2023.
First launched for PC, the indie game is about running a plant store in Undermere, a quaint town with a dark secret. Players become a horticulturist in a world of ancient mysteries involving powerful plants, covens, cults, and hags.
The game involved sorting and naming a collection of mysterious plants to solve puzzles based on the store’s customers’ needs. With the help of the Strange Book of Plants, they can organize and tag plants by their features such as smell, leaf and petal shape, and even healing powers.
Strange Horticulture also allows players to explore mystical lands beyond their store. Doing so, they can discover new plants and advance the story by discovering new places on a map with squares. To achieve this, players need to get the “will to explore” by finishing customer requests and taking care of plants. Players can also use hints to find the location of new plants or events, such as getting coordinates from the map’s place names.
Since its debut in 2022, Strange Horticulture garnered positive reviews both from players and critics. It also won several accolades. These included PC Gamer's Best Puzzle Game 2022. In addition, the game was named as a finalist in the Independent Games Festival and MCV Develop.
Strange Horticulture is available on PC (Windows and MacOS), Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and Switch. It has playscore of 9.2 on PC.