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Horticular is a relaxing garden builder where you grow plants, design habitats and attract a wide range of wildlife. Help the gnome Keepers restore a barren wasteland with magical powers and populate it with adorable critters. Reclaim nature from a looming corruption and create your perfect garden.

Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife is a relaxing, casual and cute game developed by inDirection Games and published by Slug Disco.
Released on July 11th 2024 is available on Windows and Linux in 7 languages: English, German, Japanese, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese and French.

It has received 343 reviews of which 314 were positive and 29 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife into these genres:

Relaxing Casual Cute Colorful Life Sim Agriculture Simulation Sandbox RPG Singleplayer Open World Adventure Farming Sim Building Pixel Graphics Cozy Cartoony 2D Colony Sim Magic

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: 64-bit Windows 7
  • Processor: 2.7 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD 620, GeForce 730, Radeon R7 240 or equivalent
  • Storage: 512 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Low settings at 30-60 FPS
Linux
  • OS: 64-bit Linux
  • Processor: 2.7 GHz Dual Core
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD 620, GeForce 730, Radeon R7 240 or equivalent
  • Storage: 512 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Low settings at 30-60 FPS

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April 2025
This game has finally scratched the itch that Viva Pinata left me with. I had a lot of fun with it.
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April 2025
RATING: 7/10 I like this game, and would recommend it for a light and charming puzzle game. The gameplay loop is based on altering tiles to build habitats for animals based on their certain terrain/object needs, and it's very rewarding to get into the minutiae of tailoring every tile to fit as many animals as possible in one area. More animals = more income to buy more objects and expand your land. However, the game is massively unpolished and lacking quality of life. Enter with some expectations. - The interface and habitat-building is cumbersome. Unless you "Master" an animal, the game will display its needs as empty/partially-filled/half-filled/full circles. This is EXTREMELY hard to comprehend. (A fennec fox, for instance, is an almost-full circle Desert, almost half-full sand, and a smidge water...) This left me rebuilding tiles over and over to try to satiate the requirements, not knowing what number of each tile to use. This is especially annoying since terrain takes time to build, and changing a tile can instantly break the synergy of the surrounding habitats and lead to a domino-effect of unhappy animals in the radius. The wiki has precise numbers for each tile needed, but at this point, the DLC animals have not been uploaded. The habitat-building tool is also cumbersome to use, and it's difficult to precisely relocate a habitat to a new tile. - It takes a VERY long time to get started, since you have to wait for animals to move in. That means the first few days or weeks have long periods of just waiting for your income to accrue. This is especially true in the DLC, when the upkeep of your heaters and staff eat at whatever profits you garner. There is NO fast-forward button during the day. I've played similar civilization/habitat building games that require patience, but at least there are more time-control mechanics in those games, and more gameplay mechanics to keep you engaged as you wait. - The Quests are boring. They are full of long-winded cutscenes and text, but you have to read them anyway or risk missing a step. Sandbox Questless Mode is, unfortunately, unplayable since the quests gave you crucial terrain for starter animals, such as water. The result? Paying for the shop to refresh every day, and PRAYING the tile shows up. (Again, no fast-forward button during the day.) I'm up to day 15, refreshing the shop everyday, and still no water tile. It's strange to release an entire mode without also filling in the gaps that the quests should have provided. -Corruption/Animal Illness is unrewarding and a waste of time. Dispelling corrupted creatures is *not* difficult at all, but the gameplay loop of banishing them in the base-game is tedious/unengaging, and every invasion feels more annoying than anything. Your animals will get sporadically sick, and their hearts will deplete. Sometimes this will happen in the middle of you building habitats, the animals will lose hearts, and move out, thus decreasing your income. As a result, you have to spontaneously hop all over the map (press spacebar to automatically teleport to a sick animal) and heal them all. This was annoying in the base game, but at least your gnomes will eventually help with defense and first aid. In the DLC, though, your gnomes *will not* swim across rivers. That means that they can't reach aquatic creatures that are surrounded by tiles of water, and you have to heal these yourself. (The mussels only have ONE HEART, so I keep losing these to illness.) There is a certain invader in the DLC that also seems to automatically evacuate your animals, which is very annoying since income is already staggered by heater costs. (Luckily I got rid of him fast.) - The DLC's mechanics are awful. Heater costs overwhelmingly unbalanced compared to income and animal intake rates. Unfair invader. The upgrades being randomly attained, so you can't choose extremely useful upgrades like "More Love (more income)" from the get-go. Feels like artificial bottlenecks to make the game last longer. That being said, I've spent almost 50 hours in this game so far. As unbalanced as it is, I still enjoyed the experience. I hope the devs put time into figuring out gameplay balance issues and quality-of-life. As it is, they seemed to not have learned their lesson with the new expansion -- they simply added new unbalanced mechanics, instead of refining the problems that already exist. I'm hoping they make better expansions in the future, and I'll stay tuned-in for mods since the community is adding more terrain and species.
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March 2025
Such a cute game! It's reminiscent of Viva Pinata from back in the day but with *so* much more to offer!
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Feb. 2025
Needed a game to hook my brain onto to escape The Horrors. It worked, and also, it is THE NICEST GAME IN THE WORLD. What really makes it is that your animals don't just stay in their own little "habitat" squares - they have to have that home base of resources, but then they wander or swim or fly all over the place, and they hide under things when it's raining, and the whole thing just feels so ALIVE. T_T
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Aug. 2024
I definitely recommend it but it's not for me, which is ok! Love the concept and the graphics but stopped playing because the habitat thing got too frustrating to deal with. It's not very clear as to what the animals want exactly, if it used the same idea as in terra nil maybe it would've been perfect.
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Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.

Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife received 314 positive votes out of a total of 343 achieving a rating of 8.44.
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Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife was developed by inDirection Games and published by Slug Disco.

Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife is not playable on MacOS.

Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife. Explore additional content available for Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife on Steam.

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Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife does not support Steam Remote Play.

Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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