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Botany Manor
Developer Balloon Studios
Botany Manor is a 2024 video game developed by English independent developer Balloon Studios and published by Whitethorn Games. The game is a puzzle title in which players explore a period English countryside manor to cultivate magical flora. Upon release, Botany Manor received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the game's environmental design, tone and pacing. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Overwhelmingly Positive
1,520 of 1,596 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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60 of 128 · most liked firstGreat game for cozy/casual gamers, NOT for experienced escape room/puzzle room players. As far as puzzle/escape room games go, this one is okay. It has a pleasant, cozy atmosphere and a cute story but I feel like my expectations for the mechanics were greater than what was delivered. Especially considering the price! In the demo, you bloom the first flower to help you clear a room of smog. I think it gave me the impression that you were going to be both trying to figure out how to bloom the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The nominees for Game Beyond Entertainment are… BOTANY MANOR KIND WORDS 2 (LOFI CITY POP) SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II TALES OF KENZERA: ZAU TETRIS FOREVER VAMPIRE THERAPIST #BAFTAGamesAwards
unlabelledView post →Titles leaving Game Pass in 2 weeks: -Orcs Must Die! 3 -Kona -Botany Manor -Homestead Arcana -Coral Island -Turbo Golf Racing -Harold Halibut
unlabelledView post →Hard to recommend at the asking price; I felt I overpaid at 40% off. Completed in under 2.5 hours. It's pleasant, but the (very simple) puzzles and the clues to their solutions are clustered so tightly it deserves the walking simulator tag more than any other. Did not scratch the 'Strange Horticulture' itch.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey Bluesky! 👋 🦋 Botany Manor is a puzzle game set in a Victorian English Manor. If you enjoy: 🌷 Flowers 🏡 Exploring a beautiful manor 📚 Scientific research 👒 A heartwarming story Then give us a follow!
unlabelledView post →Okay but I really do need this. @botanymanor.bsky.social @balloonstudios.bsky.social #botanymanor #indiegame #cozygame
unlabelledView post →We're so excited to share Botany Manor won the Accessibility Award at the #GamesForChange awards! The team put a lot of work into accessibility features, colour-blind legibility for clues and designing the game to be gentle to the player. As a small studio, it means a lot to see it recognised 😊💚
unlabelledView post →I just beat this neat little botany-themed first person puzzle game called Botany Manor. It was a short but nice, relaxed time and it made me feel slightly smart. What more could I ask for? 😉
unlabelledView post →How can I even begin this? Botany Manor deeply touched me as a biologist who also happens to be a woman. The game doesn't bring only amazing puzzles and logical investigation to help each flower bloom, but it also has a really strong subplot of a serious female researcher who loves botany but is looked under by her sexist society. I loved everything about this game, its gameplay is just wonderful and the end made me tear up. It's so easy to connect to Arabella while we discover about her life…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Botany Manor is a very calm and cozy game set in a beautiful Victorian manor. You play as a retired botanist, exploring the house and gardens while figuring out how to grow rare plants. One of the game's biggest strengths is that it encourages you to read letters, books, and notes carefully, rather than relying solely on visual hints. Paying close attention to written clues is essential for solving the puzzles, and I recommend taking notes if you want to avoid going back and forth between…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We're so honoured and excited to share Botany Manor received an Xbox Excellence Award for top store rating of 2024. It's amazing to see how our game has left a lasting impression on so many 💚🌳 Thanks so much to @xbox.com and @gamepass.xbox.com for all the support!
unlabelledView post →Quite short, quite easy, involves no real plant science. it's well made, but too expensive for what it delivers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New Game Pass Games: 11/5 Metal Slug Tactics StarCraft: Remastered StarCraft II 11/7 Goat Simulator Remastered 11/19 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Standard: Go Mecha Ball Harold Halibut The Rewinder Turnip Boy Robs a Bank Botany Manor news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/1...
unlabelledView post →'Botany Manor' is coming to PS4/5 on December 17th. Already on Xbox One/Series, Nintendo Switch and PC. Also on Game Pass. youtu.be/U1JXpialmio?...
unlabelledView post →Botany Manor made me cry 🥲 What an incredible game! 🌻🌺🌼
unlabelledView post →Umm... 😳🙀 We're very honoured to share that Botany Manor is in the BAFTA @baftagames.bsky.social longlist for Debut Game, British Game and Game Beyond Entertainment! We're in great company too! 🌿🏡
unlabelledView post →Continuing my very first LIVE accessibility game review! Stop by to see how accessible Botany Manor is! Live now over at: www.twitch.tv/arevya
unlabelledView post →We are so excited to announce that @botanymanor.bsky.social just received the Accessibility Award at the 2025 @gamesforchange.bsky.social awards! A HUGE thank you to our Accessibility team for making Botany Manor a game for all! #gamesforchange #gamesareforeveryone
unlabelledView post →🌿My newest series on YouTube has finally released!🌿 Over the next few weeks, join me with a full playthrough of Botany Manor, a game published by @whitethorngames.bsky.social (Also I hear the game is coming to Playstation VERY soon) youtu.be/oXkDqxd3khg
unlabelledView post →Completed Botany Manor with my eldest today and it's such a sweet but heartbreaking game. Fuck the patriarchy, teach women about science, grow cool plants
unlabelledView post →This review of Botany Manor by @rcmacleod.bsky.social brought the most "me" game ever into my life. I finished, and am now unlocking hidden achievements just so I don't have to put it down. If you love games and aren't already reading @aftermath.site, why? aftermath.site/botany-manor...
unlabelledView post →The way that Botany Manor has you piece together clues in order to solve the puzzles means that they are not insanely hard, but they do feel rewarding. I've enjoyed puzzle games that where much less straightforward, but I've also given up on finishing some because of a particularly frustrating puzzle. I finished this game in one sitting because it managed to be just challenging enough that I found it fun. If I was going to make one mechanical change to the game, It would be to add some way of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I! Finished! A video game! This never happens! I really liked Botany Manor! Very peaceful puzzle game, nice and short, but I didn't feel like it was *too* short. Good puzzles (even if a couple overstayed their welcome at the end). www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
unlabelledView post →🌿Botany Manor is a cozy game but also a window into challenges women face in academia. For #WomenInSTEMDay, we interviewed the devs @lauredm.bsky.social and @kittbyrne.bsky.social to explore how these issues were woven into storytelling and gameplay. 🎮 Read it @ jgeekstudies.org/2025/02/09/b...
unlabelledView post →🌷💐 Calling all budding botanists 💐🌷 Botany Manor is blooming onto PS5 and PS4 next week! Explore a historical English homestead, uncover long-forgotten seeds, and piece together clues to help rare plants grow in this critically-acclaimed puzzle game
unlabelledView post →It's a pleasant experience for the most part. The graphics are very pretty and it's worth taking time out to just look around from time to time as the scenery is lovely. My only real gripe is that for a game where you collect notes in a book, you can't reference any of them from the book and have to go back and find them again if you've forgotten an important detail. Doesn't feel like a difficult fix, but it's been a couple of years now and the devs have ignored community comments on the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →15. Botany Manor ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A lovely little palette cleanser, a shame it doesn't have a platinum. Recommended for puzzle game 🙂
unlabelledView post →Just finished Botany Manor (in about 3 hours). It's a beautiful botany-based puzzle adventure game, with perfectly-pitched puzzles and some fun light narrative. I loved it! www.botanymanor.com
unlabelledView post →I really really wanted to give this a thumbs up, and I am torn even while writing this review. First and foremost, it's pretty expensive for the duration and content it provides. I think it's just exactly the right length, but then the prize should have been adjusted accordingly. The puzzles are fairly simple, but I did enjoy how the clues could be put together. It is also an incredibly beautiful game with delughtfully calming music. I also absolutely loved the letters that gave little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fine, it's a decent way to spend a couple hours if you like basic puzzles and walking through gardens, but $25 is just way too much for something this short and easy with a narrative this basic and minimal. I'd say $10 at most and even that might be a stretch. Also, none of the achievements had any business being hidden. They aren't spoilers, just weird obscure interactions you're very unlikely to stumble on organically without a guide. For example, you get one for sitting on a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Botany Manor has a beautiful atmosphere and interesting puzzles, but I strongly think that the clue system needs improvement. You can’t re-read clues once they’re discovered, which leads to unnecessary backtracking. A simple option to view previously found clues in Arabella’s Book would greatly improve the flow of the game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(Обзор на русском [url=https://kknights.com/posts/4825-botany-manor-sozdaem-uiut-dlia-tsvetochkov]> тут <) A puzzle where you explore a mansion and find hints for growing flowers. + Each flower has its own «profile» with a story and clues. You should decide what clues are related to this specific flower and understand what it needs for growing. + The in-game journal shows if you missed a clue somewhere in a location. + Pleasant graphics. Some scenes with blooming flowers are amazing! +…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I see that Botany Manor is leaving Game Pass in about 2 weeks time. Please give it a shot. It may just surprise & delight you as much as it did me.
unlabelledView post →Found a charming little game called Botany Manor on GamePass. It’s a first person puzzle game; you’re a middle aged woman in 19th century England. You want to study botany but no-one will let you (education is wasted on women, don’tcha know) so you’re doing research on your own.
unlabelledView post →new blog post: Design review of Botany Manor - a quiet detective game www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2024/04/desi...
unlabelledView post →Slowly realizing one of my favorite genres of video game is "explore a creepy mansion with puzzles" and part of it is how wildly different the games can feel while still being basically the same thing. I just played Botany Manor, but there's also Another Code, 7th Guest, Resident Evil, and more
unlabelledView post →Here's my #NintendoSwitch #indiegame highlight for today! 🎮👍🏼 Game - Botany Manor Developer - @balloonstudios.bsky.social Publisher - @whitethorngames.bsky.social Release date - April 9, 2024
unlabelledView post →Botany Manor is a delightful puzzle/exploration thing. It's a rare game that explores the power fantasy of not only being able to keep potted plants alive, but induce unto them instant growth. Also this game is GORGEOUS and whoever designed the titular manor needs more recognition LOOK AT THIS PLACE
unlabelledView post →Finished Botany Manor - very cosycore puzzle game, where you have to make plants bloom by following clues in an English Edwardian manor. 🪴
unlabelledView post →A marvelous feel-good game with light exploration mechanics and gradually more complex puzzle-solving centered around making plants bloom using information discovered in both obvious and sometimes slightly hidden locations. The unique concept of making botany the game's main focus works surprisingly well. As the game progresses, keeping paper and pen handy becomes useful even if it's not mandatory but it helps. Each chapter adds three new plants to your library along with clues that must be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Botany Manor is a very good first-person puzzle game about growing plants in the late 19th century. I greatly enjoyed deciphering the clues to each plant. Well worth the 4-5 hours it takes to complete. #demo
unlabelledView post →Well, I'm ready to go live to do my very first LIVE accessibility game review! Stop by to see how accessible Botany Manor is! Live now over at: www.twitch.tv/arevya
unlabelledView post →Was expecting a puzzle game, this is more really an adventure game where the puzzles are figuring out the 1 or 2 correct circumstances in which to grow plants. There isn't really a deep mechanic involved.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow, wow, WOW!!! I almost passed this game up, and I’m so glad I didn’t. I sat down to play Botany Manor and genuinely couldn’t stop. The puzzles felt balanced, they were challenging enough to be satisfying without ever becoming frustrating. I only had to look up the answer for one clue tied to one plant, so overall I’d say it’s very easy on the puzzle scale. Exploring the manor was one of my favorite parts of the experience. I loved slowly uncovering the story through environmental clues…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short and super pretty game. The story has meaning and it was nice to see the mc story develop while blooming flowers and exploring the environment. It was cool that the player can just chill and listen to the background sounds, like birds and/or ponds. Super easy to 100% under 5 hours and in on playthrough. Usually included in bundles for a decent price. Beautiful on the steam deck also
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Game that Exists tl;dr: Buy Strange Horiculture instead. Over the course of a bit under 3 hours, Botany Manor hit all the notes, exactly as all of its predecessors wrote them. The puzzles were straightforward to a fault with the exception of a single guide-dang-it moment (it's in front of the mower by the pond), the UI was handholdy, and the "chill vibes" existed only in the form of a warm color palette and a few pleasing music cues. It wasn't a slog, but it wasn't entertaining. It simply…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →unboxing the Spring Pusheen collection "Loafing About" AND finishing up plant-identification puzzle game BOTANY MANOR twitch.tv/the_jenna
unlabelledView post →now streaming first-person puzzle game BOTANY MANOR. these plants are CLASSY! twitch.tv/the_jenna
unlabelledView post →I do think this game is VERY overpriced for being able to 100% it in 3 hours. that being said, it is a very pretty game and the puzzles are fun, though quite simple. if you dont like difficult puzzles then i definitely reccomend picking this up on a big sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved BOTANY MANOR so much. It's a very chill, beautifully rendered game filled with flower-focused puzzles, and a lovely story.
unlabelledView post →Botany Manor is free on Epic in week's time. It's a pretty perfect little game to which I gave a pretty perfect little score.
unlabelledView post →24. Botany Manor Playing this right now and it is very chill and casual in a good sense! Investigative game in a manor, focused on growing fictional plants. It might be a great entry title to people new to this kind of deductive game, a lot of my non-puzzle-gamer friends loved it & I'm having fun!
unlabelledView post →Fredo's Game-Os: Botany Manor Played through this one over a few brief sessions, this is an interesting first person puzzle game about trying to grow a bunch of different plants. It has a neat story and premise as well, with lots of cool environmental storytelling
unlabelledView post →This is the moment where I share I really enjoyed the game "Botany Manor" where all you do is wander around a beautiful sprawling mansion and find clues to help you grow completely fictional plants.
unlabelledView post →This is the first game that I saw on steam and specifically said "I'm going to go into this blind!". Normally I find games through YouTube, but this time I found it naturally. As someone with ADHD, I usually have trouble picking up on hints and clues, but Botany Manor strikes an almost perfect balance of being easy to understand but still making you feel good about solving the puzzles. Though, there was no point where I really "struggled" and had to think about any particular puzzle, which is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lovely game, not too long and not too challenging. Good story too, though it made me a bit sad. I wish I had some sort of passion or goal in my life.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Botany Manor is a strange game that made me reflect on the puzle genre. As a puzle game it's rather simple, with many solutions being almost directly given to you requiring no deductive or logical reasoning, just basic association. Also, every clue comes from text and notes instead of being contextual and coming from the environment, which was certainly not what I was expecting going into it, based on its nature as a first person game. However, the sheer charm that comes from contextualizing…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tonight, at 7 pm CDT, I will be streaming @balloonstudios.bsky.social 's Botany Manor for Short Game Fridays over on both Twitch and YouTube. You're always welcome to join either platform when I'm live with the links down below. #Vtubers #indiegames #Vtuberuprising
unlabelledView post →I was sick yesterday so I spent the afternoon playing the entirety of Botany Manor, and I can say with no exaggeration that it is the greatest video game ever made. (Okay... with *some* exaggeration. But it really is a lovely, cozy puzzle game.)
unlabelledView post →Going Live Now to co-stream the new Triple-i Initiative and then opening up this cool package and playing some Botany Manor! Thanks @whitethorngames.bsky.social! 🌹 Twitch.tv/FaunAndGames 🌹
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