Botany Manor

Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…

Botany Manor is a exploration, puzzle and immersive sim game developed by Balloon Studios and published by Whitethorn Games.
Released on April 09th 2024 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 658 reviews of which 628 were positive and 30 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam and has a 20% discount.

The Steam community has classified Botany Manor into these genres:

Exploration Puzzle Immersive Sim Walking Simulator Female Protagonist 3D First-Person Historical Relaxing Controller Story Rich Linear Science Colorful Stylized Family Friendly Logic Nature Investigation Adventure

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Requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i5 2500 or AMD FX 6350
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4600 or Radeon RX Vega 8
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 5 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

May 2024

This is the perfect example of why steam needs to add neutral reviews because Botany Manor is exactly the game that can be summed up as "yes, but...". Yes: [*] great story and storytelling, [*] interesting premises, i.e. you get to be a researcher working in a beautiful mansion (that's my dream job) , [*] vibes; it's cozy, relaxing, not too difficult. But: [*] for this price -- not enough content, [*] for a game about botany -- the graphics quality of the vast majority of the plants is underwhelming to say the least, [*] if I'm carrying a book with my research in it, why can't I have the clues that I've already found stored in that book? Half of the game was just me walking around the mansion to triple check the clues since my memory has a skill issue. Overall: yes, but wait for a sale.

May 2024

Very cute game but there is one major issue. There is not enough game play for the price point in my opinion. I spent just under 4 hours playing and I completed the game in one sitting. Additionally, during this play through I almost perfected the game except for a few Steam achievements. There is so much more that could've been done to add to the game play, for example, adding more plants that needed pH levels adjusted/ adding more plants that needed specific types of pots. The game maker(s) could've also added on more game play with the various critters they introduced. Overall, I am a little disappointed. My opinions aside, this game has intriguing puzzles to keep you occupied for a few hours if you can justify the price point.

April 2024

A solid puzzle game. I recommend taking screenshots of all important looking documents you find in steam by hitting F12 then reviewing them by hitting Shift+Tab, otherwise you'll never remember where you read a particular thing. The book allows you to organize things you've found but oddly you can't review them from in there, so you have to wander back to where you found the document the first time. I started taking screenshots after the first chapter and it went much faster after that. None of the puzzles are too tricky, although I do wish there were more involving the plants I'd grown. Most of the plants you grow aren't used in the manor in any way. It would have been nice if they opened new areas more often instead of using keys. The graphics are music are very charming. They really nailed that part.

April 2024

Botany Manor is a lovely little game. But it really is little. It took me around 3 hours to 100% it minus a few achievements for solving puzzles wrong in humourous ways, and I was by no means rushing. For more context, the demo is 20% of the game. For the very short play time and little-to-no replay value, I do think the £22.50 standard price is a bit steep. Chants of Sennaar is £5 cheaper and gave me 3x as much play time, if we're looking at pure price-to-play-time metrics of course. With all that said, what little time I had with the world of Botany Manor was a truly wonderful experience. The game is one of those ones where its value doesn't come from any particular component, but instead how all those components come together. The graphics and art are simple, the story/world building is reasonably shallow, and the puzzles are well designed but unlikely to pose much of a challenge to anyone who's ever played a puzzle game before... But experiencing all those things *together* really makes Botany Manor greater than the sum of its parts. The graphics aren't breaking any boundaries, but the visuals along with the soundscape *do* excellently capture the mood of a quaint summer's afternoon at a grand countryside mansion. The occasional newspaper clippings and letters dotted about also help present information and context for the player character that the conclusion of the game has a nice emotional punch to it. And together those things gave me enough motivation to want to work out how grow my lovely puzzling plants beyond just solving puzzles for the sake of it. So I would really recommend this to a prospective buyer only if *the whole package* appeals to you. If you're here entirely for brainteasers and intend to plough through without any particular care for the environment the game is set in then this probably isn't for you. Personally, I loved it. Although I do think it should be cheaper or, preferably, longer.

April 2024

A rather short playthrough (I finished the game and all its achievements in less than 3 hours) but it's a rather nice afternoon of peaceful gaming time. Reminds me of Strange Horticulture, but with fewer plants and no horror elements at all. The puzzles are rather easy, made even simpler by the fact that there aren't any wrong clues or red herrings anywhere -- every clue is there for a reason, and you just have to figure out what plant it goes with. Each plant has quite a different story/theme about it, so it isn't all that hard to match them up. But I did enjoy the time I spent exploring the manor finding the clues, reading the letters, and putting everything together to collect some cool plants. If I had one wish, I'd want to be able to look at the clues I've collected from the UI without having to walk all the way back to where they were in the world to look at them again. The book had a record of what clues I'd collected, but this was purely the name of the clue and where I found it, without actually having any of the information. It would be nice to have a folder to pick up all the letters and snippets I find scattered around so I can look at them all again in one place.

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