{"id":8185,"date":"2022-12-05T12:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/strange-horticulture-review-the-enjoyably-shady-business-of-botanicals\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:37:40","slug":"strange-horticulture-review-the-enjoyably-shady-business-of-botanicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/strange-horticulture-review-the-enjoyably-shady-business-of-botanicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Horticulture review \u2013 the enjoyably shady business of botanicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Bad Viking; Iceberg Interactive; PC, Switch)<br \/><\/strong>Plants can cure or kill in this atmospheric puzzle game <\/p>\n<p>In <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iceberg-games.com\/strange-horticulture\/\">Strange Horticulture<\/a><\/em> you enter the tangy murk of a rare plant shop of the same name, inherited from your recently deceased uncle. It\u2019s in Undermere, a fictionalised version of Windermere in the Lake District. A few specimens \u2013 all fictitious but botanically believable \u2013 line the shop\u2019s dusty wooden shelves, each one in need of a good watering. Soon your first customer emerges from the shadows with a request for a medicinal plant to help rid them of the voices they hear at night.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re no expert; instead, you must rely on the reference materials left by your uncle, chiefly, his edition of <em>The Strange Book of Plants<\/em>, a horticultural guide filled with clues for identifying plants from their scent, the shape of their leaves, the colours of their petals, as well as to remedial properties.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/dec\/03\/strange-horticulture-review-the-enjoyably-shady-business-of-botanicals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3e84c0720284c068d202dbc47b265a2111831a85\/0_0_1200_720\/master\/1200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=43a0c1b632472541062b57432bcb9ffc\" title=\"Strange Horticulture review \u2013 the enjoyably shady business of botanicals\" \/>(Bad Viking; Iceberg Interactive; PC, Switch)Plants can cure or kill in this atmospheric puzzle game<br \/>\nIn Strange Horticulture you enter the tangy murk of a rare plant shop of the same name, inherited from your recently deceased uncle. It\u2019s in Undermere, a fictionalised version of Windermere in the Lake District. A few specimens \u2013 all fictitious but botanically believable \u2013 line the shop\u2019s dusty wooden shelves, each one in need of a good watering. Soon your first customer emerges from the shadows with a request for a medicinal plant to help rid them of the voices they hear at night.<br \/>\nYou\u2019re no expert; instead, you must rely on the reference materials left by your uncle, chiefly, his edition of The Strange Book of Plants, a horticultural guide filled with clues for identifying plants from their scent, the shape of their leaves, the colours of their petals, as well as to remedial properties. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bad Viking; Iceberg Interactive; PC, Switch)Plants can cure or kill in this atmospheric puzzle game In Strange Horticulture you enter the tangy murk of a rare plant shop of the same name, inherited from your recently deceased uncle. It\u2019s in Undermere, a fictionalised version of Windermere in the Lake District. 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