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Marek Kapolka rated The Tale of the Greenhouse

A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Beautiful graphics, calm music and sfx. Gameplay reminds me of runescape and minecraft mods - managing your little plant factories that generate currencies, figuring out an optimal strategy and executing on it by clicking in a very deliberate order. 

The UX of walking to your scissors, picking them up, walking to the plant, clicking, walking back to the place you keep your scissors, putting them down, walking over to the pot to plant your cutting, etc, makes it feel very procedural in a way that doesn't fit the tone IMO. I didn't dislike that process but I felt encouraged to think about the plants in terms of their economic value and how to make things efficient. I met a guy once that worked at a commercial orchid nursery and this gave me vibes of his stories, not so much the whimsical, personal narrative that it set up with the intro cutscene and aesthetics.