Strange Antiquities — Steam Gift

Strange Antiquities: run Undermere's occult curio shop, delivered as a Steam gift

Strange Antiquities is a cosy-yet-dark puzzle adventure from British studio Bad Viking and publisher Iceberg Interactive, released on September 17, 2025. It's a standalone sequel to the cult hit Strange Horticulture: instead of pressed herbs, you now tend a shop of occult antiques, and instead of plants you handle dusty Victorian oddities, each hiding its own secret. Here you buy the full game as a Steam gift that lands straight in your library — and it's yours to keep.

What the game is about

You're the new custodian of an antiques shop in the foggy town of Undermere. Strange visitors come to your counter: one seeks a charm against the evil eye, another wants an object best left undiscovered. Your job is to study the clues, inscriptions, shapes and tiny details, cross-check dusty catalogues and reference books, and decide whether to help each guest or turn them away. Every choice ripples out to the townsfolk and to the dark story unfolding around Undermere. Between customers, you can feed and pet Jupiter, the shop's resident cat.

The game wins you over with atmosphere, not action: warm lamplight, rustling pages, rain on the window and dozens of objects you just want to inspect. It's a slow, thoughtful mystery built on observation and deduction, where you run the investigation yourself instead of following waypoints.

How it differs from Strange Horticulture

Where the first game was about identifying plants, Strange Antiquities brings that same "examine, compare, identify" loop to occult artifacts. It takes place several years later in the same world of Undermere, but you can dive in without having played the original — the story stands on its own. Fans of Strange Horticulture will recognise familiar places and nods, while newcomers can start right here. In tone and pace it sits close to atmospheric mysteries like The Seance of Blake Manor — the two even share the "Dark Academia" themed bundle.

What the gift includes

This is the base, full version of Strange Antiquities for Steam — the entire story campaign, all puzzles and endings. The game's soundtrack is a separate Steam add-on and is not part of this gift, but you don't need it to play. The game supports Windows and macOS, with interface and subtitles available in Russian among 13 supported languages.

How we deliver the gift

Strange Antiquities is delivered as a genuine Steam Gift through our bot. The flow is simple and safe:

• You provide your Steam friend invite link (s.team/p/...) and your account region.
• After payment the bot adds itself as your friend and sends the gift — usually within a couple of minutes.
• You don't need to accept the friend request — the bot handles everything and leaves your friends list automatically once delivery is done.
• Steam Guard is not required to receive it, and you don't need to keep the game running.

Key condition: region and library

Steam ties gifts to the pricing region, so your Steam account region must match the gift region — we offer 42 regions, pick yours. If they don't match, Steam simply won't let you accept the gift. The second condition: Strange Antiquities must not already be in the recipient account's library — a gift can't be redeemed for a game you already own. Also make sure friend requests are allowed in your profile's privacy settings, otherwise the bot can't reach you.

If something goes wrong

The most common reasons a gift "doesn't arrive" are restricted friend requests or an expired invite link. Allow friend requests in your Steam privacy settings, send a fresh link, and you'll be set. Failures are rare, as with any service like this; if the gift hasn't arrived and the conditions are met, message us and we'll help sort it out.

Why pick up Strange Antiquities

It's one of the warmest yet most mysterious games of 2025: "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews on Steam, a cosy look, a soothing score and the rare feeling of being trusted to find the truth yourself rather than led by the hand. If you love slow mysteries, occult aesthetics and stories where every object on the shelf matters, Undermere is waiting for a new keeper.