Strange Horticulture is free on EGS, just before its sequel releases
One month before the release of Strange Antiquities, Strange Horticulture is free to play on the Epic Games Store
August 21st, 2025, Haarlem - Today, Iceberg Interactive and Bad Viking are pleased to announce that Strange Horticulture, the beloved dark and cozy puzzle game, is now completely free on the Epic Games Store until August 28th, 2025.
Download and play for freeWidely acclaimed as one of the best indie games of 2022, Strange Horticulture transports you to a quiet, enigmatic shop with strange plants and an arcane mystery to solve. With gentle rain and your cat Hellebore by your side, your main task is to correctly identify the plants left in your care. Find and collect unusual plants, from hypnotic hallucinogens to powerful poisons, and help your customers with their occult needs.
Loved Strange Horticulture? Check out Strange Antiquities, Bad Viking's most ambitious project next:
Key elements:
- Study and Identify: Examine, identify and catalogue strange artefacts. Observation, deduction, and careful reference to our collection of illustrated tomes will serve you well. Mistakes can be… costly.
- Help… Or Hinder: When dealing with powerful items, your choices matter. Will you help someone with their problem, or curse them with a horrid affliction? In a small town like this, people remember your misdeeds.
- Explore and Discover: From time to time, you will have to leave the safety of the shop. Whether investigating rumours or retrieving artefacts, my well-loved hand-drawn maps will guide you to where you need to go.
- Solve and Uncover: Your day-to-day might already feel like a puzzle, but this store holds many more. Few know how old this building is, and fewer still know what secrets lie within its walls.
- Tending the Familiar: And, of course, Jupiter, the shop’s cat, demands daily affection. In return for his company, please oblige him with the occasional scratch behind the ears.
Iceberg Interactive and Bad Viking cannot wait for you to explore Undermere and its surroundings.
If you’d like to schedule an exclusive interview with the devs, please send a message to PR@iceberg-games.com.
Don't forget to keep the dread at bay...
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Press Contact
- PR manager: Tea de Jong - PR@iceberg-games.com
- Iceberg Interactive Discord: https://discord.gg/iceberginteractive
- Publisher's Website: https://www.iceberg-games.com
- Developer's Website: https://www.badviking.com/
Related Links
- Strange Horticulture's Press Kit: Google Drive
- SH EGS Storepage: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/strange-horticulture-360e80
- Strange Antiquities' Press Kit: Google Drive
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ABOUT BAD VIKING
Bad Viking is an independent game development company based in England and founded by brothers Rob & John Donkin. Bad Viking aims to create fun, fresh, and imaginative games that can be enjoyed by anyone.
ABOUT ICEBERG INTERACTIVE
Iceberg Interactive is an independent video game publisher known for many hit franchises, including Strange Horticulture, Killing Floor 2, Heroes of Valor, and Circle Empires; the company has enjoyed recent success with PC titles such as Blazing Sails, Chivalry 2, Land of the Vikings, AirportSim, and Dead Season. Iceberg Interactive has many exciting games coming up, including Strange Antiquities, Second Sun, and Radiolight. To learn more, please visit www.iceberg-games.com.