Botany Manor

Botany Manor is a puzzle game set in 1890 within a Victorian estate in Somerset, England. Arabella Greene, a retired botanist, has returned to her family home to complete her research for a field guide titled Forgotten Flora. To finalize the book for her publisher, Arabella must cultivate twelve species of rare, fictional plants that require specific environmental triggers to bloom. As she explores the manor and its grounds, textual evidence such as personal letters, university rejection notices, and family records details her career and the social challenges she encountered as a woman in the 19th-century scientific community.

Gameplay is structured around the investigation and cultivation of botanical specimens. Each plant serves as a logic puzzle requiring the player to locate a seed packet and then deduce the necessary growth conditions—such as specific soil pH levels, temperature, light frequency, or acoustic stimuli—by gathering clues scattered throughout the manor grounds.