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Game Information
**Game Title**: Botany Manor
**Platforms**:
- Nintendo Switch (Apr 9, 2024)
- PC (Apr 9, 2024)
- Xbox One (Apr 9, 2024)
- PlayStation 4 (Apr 9, 2024)
**Trailers**:
**Developer**: Balloon Studios
**Publisher**: Whitethorn Games
**Review Aggregator**:
**OpenCritic - 84 average - 100% recommended - 19 reviews\\](https://opencritic.com/game/16551/botany-manor)%5C*%5C*)
Critic Reviews
**CGMagazine\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/82/cgmagazine)%5C*%5C*) - Jordan Biordi - 8 / 10
Botany Manor is like spending a Fall afternoon with a hot cup of tea and a good puzzle—relaxing, challenging and beautiful to look at.
**COGconnected\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/94/cogconnected)%5C*%5C*) - Tisha Kambarami - 78 / 100
Botany Manor is all in all an excellent choice for cozy gamers who enjoy gardening and puzzles. It offers a smooth and relaxing gameplay experience that is sure to appeal to both veterans and newcomers alike. It’s a cozy gamers dream and reprieve from a slew of farming simulators.
**Checkpoint Gaming\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/563/checkpoint-gaming)%5C*%5C*) - Bree Maybe - 8 / 10
Exploring Botany Manor is a great experience as everything feels beautifully interconnected and the puzzles are fun and engaging to tackle the whole way through. It makes up for its lack of difficulty with charm in spades and an interesting personal story happening behind the scenes if you know where to look. Putting together the Herbarium is a lot of fun, allowing you to grow some plants you'll never be able to kill.
**Digitally Downloaded\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/65/digitally-downloaded)%5C*%5C*) - Lindsay M. - 4 / 5
Cozy means something different to everyone. For me, a cozy game is about a welcoming atmosphere, no death, and a slow pace. That description fits Botany Manor to a tee. The world is so lovingly crafted, the grounds so abundant and colourful, that I’d like to stay there forever. I have screenshots of every room I’ve been in because they are perfectly decorated from every angle. The logical puzzles require careful observation (and sometimes backtracking once or twice) yet are somehow simultaneously quite straightforward. Botany Manor is exactly the kind of cozy puzzle/gardening sim that I’ve always wanted, save for a couple small bothers. I’m already eagerly anticipating my return to the manor.
**GameLuster\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/681/gameluster)%5C*%5C*) - Nirav Gandhi - 8 / 10
While sometimes it asks too much of players' brains, Botany Manor features some of my favorite art direction ever and a wondrous world to explore.
**GameSpew\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/408/gamespew)%5C*%5C*) - Kim Snaith - 10 / 10
Gorgeous, perfectly designed and utterly engrossing, Botany Manor is quite simply one of the best puzzle games of recent years.
**GosuNoob\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/889/gosunoob)%5C*%5C*) - Stefan Djakovic - 8 / 10
Botany Manor has a lot going for it. The puzzles are fun and engaging, but never frustrating. Due to the really brief length alone, Botany Manor falls just short of being something truly extraordinary.
**IGN\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/56/ign)%5C*%5C*) - Saniya Ahmed - 8 / 10
Clever clues entwine with Botany Manor’s charming old English setting to make for a lighthearted first-person puzzler worth tending to.
**LadiesGamers.com\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/734/ladiesgamers-com)%5C*%5C*) - Lynne Newey - Liked-a-lot
There is no denying that Botany Manor transports you to a bygone era. I had a thoroughly enjoyable time digging around to find the growing conditions of the forgotten flora, ensuring my herbarium blossomed in completeness and unearthing Arabella Greene’s life.
**Nintendo Life\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/136/nintendo-life)%5C*%5C*) - Kate Gray - 9 / 10
It looks like The Witness and it plays a bit like StreetPass Garden, but Botany Manor blooms into something that's not only entirely its own, but also something quite special. Don't let its cosy aesthetics fool you - Botany Manor is packed with nicely challenging, well-designed puzzles, and isn't afraid to tackle heavy subjects, too.
**PC Invasion\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/176/pc-invasion)%5C*%5C*) - Anyka Pettigrew - 9 / 10
Botany Manor is a colorful exploration game with clever puzzles to solve and an intriguing narrative to back it up. With each problem solved I felt gratified and smart for putting together the right clues and reading between the lines. The environmental storytelling and the relaxing atmosphere made me want to explore every nook and cranny of the manor.
**Press Start\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/491/press-start)%5C*%5C*) - Kieron Verbrugge - 8.5 / 10
Botany Manor is a delight. It's sweet, succinct and serene, packed with clever puzzles that reward thoughtful exploration and engagement with its narrative. At a little under three hours it's the perfect lazy weekend getaway for those that like to stop and smell the flowers as much as they like to enrich the soil of their mind.
**Rock, Paper, Shotgun\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/270/rock-paper-shotgun)%5C*%5C*) - Alice Bell - Unscored
Botany Manor is a beautiful, focused and entirely peaceful game that creates an oasis where you solve puzzles and marvel at the world. It's wonderful stuff.
**Screen Rant\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/664/screen-rant)%5C*%5C*) - Deven McClure - 4 / 5
Though short, the time players do get to spend in the world is made immersive and engaging through its diverse map, classical soundtrack, and ambient nature sounds. It's definitely one of 2024's most relaxing puzzle games so far, and I found myself thinking about Arabella and her strange plants even after I'd finished the story. Because of its length, some players may wish to wait for a sale to pick up Botany Manor, but it's an undeniably charming title that's great to explore and unwind with.
**Shacknews\\](https://opencritic.com/outlet/62/shacknews)%5C*%5C*) - Larryn Bell - 9 / 10
Despite its brevity, Botany Manor is a wholesome puzzle game that turns academic research into an engaging endeavor. The central theme focuses on finding the conditions to allow a living entity to flourish, a co...
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