Strange Horticulture in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ Excellent and made with love.

I adore this game. Cozy but with gothy elements (beauty in the ugly, darkness in the light), it is addictive. It provides even an addict with good points to put it down and have a life, though, which is more than many games. For those who love organization elements, it’s perfect. The puzzles are challenging without making you lose hair. Note: I experienced semi-frequent crashes while researching in the book. I’m playing on an iPad mini running 18.4.x, with the game on a 1.1.x version, so Playjoy please look into this! This did not affect my game score, ymmv.

★★★★★ Cozy Puzzle Game

This game caught my attention on Steam a while back, and I had it on my wish list. It instantly reminded me of the Professor Layton series — both in puzzles and art style so I was very excited to play. I saw it was available in the App Store for $5 and figured ‘why not?’ This game is so cozy and the puzzles are clever and the characters are intriguing. This game has 8 different endings so I am sure there are lots of things I haven’t even encountered yet, and I’d love to see this game expanded or a sequel. 5/5 definitely one of my favorite games I’ve played.

★★★★★ Fun horticulture puzzle game

It has some challenges that I had to think through and interesting characters. I like the plot and storylines too. I would like to see more from the creators of this one. I like the spookiness of the storyline, with the traveling to find rare plants. Love a cat in the window, and a librarian friend. I did think I would have to search a picture for plants but they are offered to you. Thank you for the no-ad game play for someone who wants to find clues, and solve mysteries.

★★★★★ Love this game!

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!

★★★★★ Annoying Glitch

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.

★★★★★ Boring, maybe good for kids

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

★★★★★ Wonderful

Such a lovely, novel game. I never want it to end. The main mechanic is captivating, the puzzles along the way just the right kind of intriguing, and the plot line satisfying. I do so hope there will be more. Pet the cat. Update: I love the game so much I've played it again after giving myself enough time to forget all the clues. Please, please, please add a new story!