Botany Manor Review | A calm puzzle game with flowers!
9Platform: PC Xbox Nintento Switch
Reviewed on: PC
Developer: Ballon Studios
Publisher: Whitehorn Games
Release: April 9, 2024
Time Played: 3.5 Hours
Genre: Indie Puzzle
ESRB:
Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as its inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with botanical research, to figure out the ideal habitat for a collection of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…
Features
• Botany Manor is a first-person puzzle game set in a Victorian English manor.
• It's 1890, and you play as botanist Arabella Greene, who is working to finish her botanical research book 'Forgotten Flora'.
• Explore a complete historical English manor and its grounds, researching how to grow rare plant specimens from seed. There are many rooms and gardens to discover, all set inside a beautiful countryside surrounding.
• The manor is filled with mysterious clues for you to discover, including books, posters, letters and fascinating Victorian contraptions.
• The plants you grow are fantastical, but still inspired by real phenomena in nature, so some of them require you to think outside the box. Using what's available to you in the manor, you must create the ideal conditions for each plant.
• Room by room, you learn more about the life and career of Arabella, and the challenges she faced as a woman navigating her scientific career.
• Botany Manor is a relaxing and peaceful environment, feel free to stop and smell the roses.
The Rig:
GeForce RTX 4070 Founder's Edition
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core
32GB DDR5
Peripherals:
Webcam - Razer Kiyo Pro
Mic - Razer Seiren
Mouse - Razer Naga X
Keyboard - Razer Huntsman V2
Headphones - Razer Kraken V3 Hypersense
Stream Deck - Razer Stream Controller
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0:00 Intro
0:25 Where it starts
0:45 Can the kids watch?
1:08 Botany Book
1:34 Growing Flowers
1:58 Background Story
2:23 Final Thoughts
3:28 Rating