Text: Botany Mano | Visual: It’s a clear sunny day and a beautiful white English-style manor home is surrounded by lush green hedges, trees, and colorful plants. A gorgeous fountain is in front of the home.
The glorious gardens, graceful greenhouse, and dignified doors of Botany Manor are almost open to the public! Botany Manor, the debut title from Balloon Studios, will launch on PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox on April 9, 2024. Players looking to secure their spot in the Manor’s gardens can pre-order their copy on Xbox starting today.
Just ahead of launch, Balloon Studios' Laure De Mey takes us through one of the puzzles that can be uncovered in the upcoming plant puzzle game Botany Manor.
Pixie Tears are one of the rare forgotten flora that retired botanist Arabella Greene has collected as part of her long years of research. Like many of the plants in her collection, this specimen requires a very specific set of circumstances in order for it to bloom. De Mey walks us through Arabella's collection of research to determine just how to make this dainty flower flourish.
Watch how to make the Pixie Tears bloom by watching the video below:
About Botany Manor:
The enduring estate of Botany Manor is home to retired botanist Arabella Greene. After a long career, she has amassed a collection of rare, long-forgotten plants that require some research to help them live again. Play as Arabella and explore the stunning historic manor and its grounds to look for clues in her notes, books, posters, and items scattered around the residence to determine the correct set of circumstances to help the flora flourish. Unlock new seeds and plant them. Interactable items around the property that can be turned and flipped will provide information to help you solve each gardening puzzle, grow the plants and discover their mysterious qualities.
Key Features of Botany Manor include:
Explore the peaceful grounds and many calming rooms of the beautifully rendered, historically accurate 19th-century manor.
Pick up, flip, turn, and rotate the many items found around the estate to piece together the clues to solve each plant-based puzzle.
Learn about Arabella’s life and career, and the challenges she faced as a woman scientist during the 19th century as you explore.
Fall in love with the calming soundtrack that perfectly compliments the environment and flowers you bring to full bloom.
Botany Manor blossoms onto PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One and Xbox Series S|X on April 9, 2024. You can pre-order the game on Xbox starting today. Botany Manor will be available in the following languages on all platforms: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
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