Strange Horticulture — Steam Gift

Strange Horticulture — an occult puzzle game about a mysterious plant shop

Strange Horticulture is a cozy-yet-eerie puzzle game by British studio Bad Viking (published by Iceberg Interactive), released on PC on January 21, 2022. You take over a shop of rare herbs and fungi in the foggy town of Undermere, inspired by the English Lake District. In front of you sit a counter, a battered plant almanac, a map of the surrounding hills and a steady stream of odd customers — one needs a herb for sleepless nights, another wants a poisonous bloom for a dark ritual. Every plant you hand out slowly pulls you into a story of a cult, missing people and an old power sleeping in the fells.

Here we sell Strange Horticulture as a Steam gift: after payment our bot sends the game to your Steam account, and it stays in your library for good. Below is what the game is, exactly how the gift arrives, and what to check before buying.

What the game is and why it hooks you

The core of Strange Horticulture is not combat but plant identification. You get a new specimen — a leaf, a mushroom, a dried flower — and use clues in your almanac to figure out what it is: compare leaf shape, petal count, smell, reaction to light. Get it right and the plant is named, ready to be sold or used. Get it wrong and you might hand a customer the wrong thing entirely, nudging the story down a different path.

Alongside that, letters and riddles arrive: coded notes, coordinates on the map, ambiguous requests from strange visitors. The game never rushes you — it is a slow, atmospheric mystery where it feels good just to sit in the shop while rain taps the window, pet a black cat named Hellebore, and untangle the next puzzle. Under the cozy surface hides a dark occult tale with several endings shaped by your choices.

What the Steam gift includes

This is the full base version of Strange Horticulture for PC (Windows) on Steam — all of the main game, nothing cut. You do not need any add-ons to finish the story: a single playthrough runs about 4–6 hours, and many replay it for the different endings. The game is built around the mouse (it is a "tabletop" puzzle about examining specimens) and its interface is localized into several languages.

• Full single-player campaign: identify plants, investigate, choose your ending.
• Dozens of unique plants and fungi with their own properties.
• Rainy English-countryside atmosphere, warm hand-drawn art and a calm soundtrack.
• Replay value for alternate endings and puzzles you missed.

How the gift arrives (delivery mechanic)

Strange Horticulture is delivered as a Steam Gift through our supplier's bot. You only provide two things: your Steam profile friend-invite link and your account region. The rest happens on its own:

• The bot adds itself via your invite link — you do not need to accept the request manually.
• It sends the gift with the game, then automatically leaves your friends list after delivery.
• Steam Guard is not required — the gift works on an account without it.
• You must not already own the game: Steam will not let you accept a gift for a title already in your library.

The whole thing usually takes a couple of minutes after checkout, but it is not a hard guarantee — sometimes it is a little longer. The one rule everything rests on: your Steam account region must match the gift region, otherwise Steam simply won't accept it.

Region and compatibility

This gift is available across a wide set of Steam regions (around four dozen countries), so in most cases your region will fit. Still, check your account region against the chosen item's region before buying — that small detail is the most common reason a delivery fails. The game runs on Windows; Steam Deck and Linux owners play it happily through Proton, since it is light on hardware and the mouse controls map neatly onto the touchpad.

If you love detective puzzles

Strange Horticulture is a great entry point into "cozy but dark" investigation games. If it clicks, Bad Viking made a direct sequel — Strange Antiquities (released in 2025, where you appraise mysterious artifacts instead of plants). For kindred deduction puzzles we also recommend The Case of the Golden Idol and Return of the Obra Dinn — both ask you to assemble the truth from clues rather than gunfights.

Quick answers

Do I need Steam Guard? No. Do I accept the friend request? No, the bot handles it. Does the game stay forever? Yes, once accepted it is yours with no expiry. Will my region fit? Most likely, but match your account region to the gift region before paying. More details are in the questions below and in the hints next to the order fields.