Strange Horticulture 12+

I don’t remember where I heard about this game but was so intrigued by the description that I knew I wanted to try it, and it’s everything I hoped for! First, a low price that meant I could just buy it outright and not deal with annoying ads! Then, fascinating and interesting gameplay that I love just as much as I thought I would. Lovely artwork, moody music and sound effects… just love it!

I bought this game yesterday and have really been enjoying it. However, there is a glitch when I zoom in on the screen that prevents me from being able to zoom all the way out after. Because of this, I can’t read the plant descriptions and the game is essentially unplayable when that happens. I believe it happens when I am looking at the map with a clue/letter overlayed and I zoom in. If I delete the app and redownload it, it fixes the issue. But I’ve had to delete it probably 5 times now and it’s very annoying.

Without this glitch the game would get 5/5 starts. If it gets fixed I will update my review.

From what I can tell all you do over and over is guess a plant from some small amount of clues. When you guess correctly you get new unidentified plants in your shop. There doesn’t seem to be any compelling overarching story, or reward system aside from gaining more plants. It seems to be a pointless cycle of get clue, guess which plant, receive new plant, get clue, guess plant… and on and on . If there ends up being more to it I’ll change my review, but I think I’ve been playing at least an hour or so at this point. The clues and plants aren’t even particularly interesting. Like find a red plant, find a waxy plant…zzzzzzz