The Abbess Garden

Cute game for the gardener who also loves an historical intrigue. I do recommend turning the movement speed up and the gardening animations off after the first few rounds, because it does get a tad tedious otherwise. Loved the artwork in the dialogue part.

Well, the theme is charming. But...it is a kinetic novel with light planting elements. There is only one portrait for each character, the English localization is very bad, one character is a obviously style-breaking hasty repaint of another character, lag and memory leaks force restarting, and the gardening part takes place in a very buggy 3D environment rampant with unpathable bushes, places for your character to get stuck, and buggy UI with very poor click detection. Also, several of the achievements popped up at the wrong time. I will say the animations of the 3D character are very flavorful, although far too slow.

I really enojyed the playthrough during the gloomy days of winter. The story follows a young girl tasked with taking care of the Abbott's garden. I loved the setting. I was expecting a bit more from the intrigue but I think this is more personal preference. The story reminded me of other European historical novels, just with a queer representation, which made me really happy. Now, about the gardening. The mechanics are a bit cluncky and I would recommend skipping the animations and speeding up a character. However I really enjoyed the freedom you have in arranging your garden. You can do absolute basics and still have enough of everything to finish the story or you can really put your hart into replacing all tha grass with clover and roses. There is some Ease of Life improvements I would enjoy, like having more information about when plants will have seeds to gather or when they will wither if they are one year plants. I also am not sure about artstyle direction of the 3D. The handrawn characters and city had very specific design and I don't think it translated well into simplistic 3D models. Overall I would give this game 3/5

Adorable game from a small team that uses actual botany for the farming. The plot has intrigue and romance. This is one of my favorite games to wind down with

wonderful so far will review when done

Really wanted to like this, but the interface for the garden was infuriating and cumbersome, and the dialog seemed to assume I was already well-versed in the history and social structures of the time period, as well as being awkwardly written, badly localized, and oddly paced.