Strange Horticulture
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$15.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$6.3960% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.81/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 16,344
- Critics
- 83 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.39 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.7h
- To 100%
- 9.1h 1.6x the story
- Finish
- 51% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 18
Price and sales
- Sales
- 50 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $4.79 November 2024
- Sale every
- 33d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 89 now
- Recent reviews
- 93% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 15% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
96% start to 51% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 50 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $9.77, a level the record has reached 46 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, The Case of the Golden Idol ($17.99, scores 72) and The Rise of the Golden Idol ($19.99, scores 71), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Strange Horticulture
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 51 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,193 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 531 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Went into this not expecting much, got addicted almost immediately, Finding the correct plant for each customer is strangely relaxing and getting it right feels very rewarding. At the same time, the writing keeps you interested indicating that disturbing events are happening nearby. Finding new plants, new hints about the unfolding mistery keep the whole experience fresh until the end. It's a short game but worth...
2 more reviews
Strange Horticulture is a very nice little indie game, where you take care of and identify (fictional) plants coupled with navigating a grid-based map in a steampunkish/medieval world. It is kind-of a mix of an escape room puzzle game ("how do you deduce the real meaning of this secret message") with some pure logic based puzzles ("cross-checking of plant characteristics, aliases, etc, to narrow down the one I want...
⊰═🕀═⊱≼ Lovecraftian garden ≽⊰═🕀═⊱ 🜂 Positive 🜄 ☉ Gloomy and mysterious atmosphere, which exudes something dark and mystical ... ☉ Interesting puzzles , especially if you like the plant theme and have dreamed of having your own garden or greenhouse ... ☉ Good puzzles , as there was nothing illogical or confusing ... ☉ A cat Hellebore , which you can pet ... And it reacts in a very funny way when visitors arrive ...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB display memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Strange Horticulture scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1574580/strange-horticultureReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.