Epic Games Strange Horticulture 2025 Sequel

Suppose you’re craving a detective game that’s equal parts eerie and intellectually satisfying, just in time for Halloween! Strange Horticulture is your next wishlist item to purchase in the Epic Games store, and that’s not even the best part!

Epic Games is offering this award-winning narrative puzzler for free until August 28, 2025, making this the perfect time for early Fall shopping and getting ready for Halloween. So get ready to plunge into this world of mystery and botany.

Set in the rain-soaked town of Undermere, you play as a simple plant shop owner who is tasked with identifying cryptic riddles, puzzles while interacting with interesting customers, as this isn’t just a random gardening gam,e as each plant ranges from soothing herbs to poisionous plants and the choices that you make as the player can shape the very outcome of this story. With multiple endings and a haunting atmosphere, Strange Horticulture has earned a 90/100 from PC Gamer, who called it “the best detective game I’ve played in years.”

The game’s brilliance lies in its simplicity: using a magnifying glass and botanical tome, you match vague customer descriptions to the right plants. As the days pass, the town’s mysteries have begun to deepen, and your role becomes far more than just a shopkeeper. You can become a sleuth, detective, and even a healer— or something like Snow White’s apple; sweet to look at but poisonous once you’ve taken a bite.

But that’s not all.

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The mystery isn’t closing shop as Developer Bad Viking is expanding the Strange Horticulture is expanding their universe with Strange Antiquities, launching in September 2025. This sequel trades flora for forgotten relics, placing you in a cursed antique shop with gorgeous Victorian oddities.

I especially love games where the setting is Victorian, as it makes the players feel like Sherlock Holmes, solving a mystery with clues that delve deeper into a complex story filled with characters that make the story feel alive, only for twists and turns to contemplate their every move like a complex game of chess. Expect this game to delve deeper into investigative secrets. New mechanics, a much richer story lore, and the same unsettling charm that made the original a cult hit.

Whether you’re a senior detective or a new rookie in the Strange series. So download the newest game on the Epic Games Store, and get ready to explore its twisted roots and be prepared for the next chapter in Undermere’s strange saga.

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