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Press release:
In case you missed it, the stately manor doors of Botany Manor are now open on Nintendo™ Switch 2! In the critically acclaimed botanical puzzle game, you’ll be able to explore a historical English homestead brimming with a lifetime of memorabilia and research to discover on a whole new platform. Uncover long-forgotten seeds and piece together clues to solve puzzles to help each rare plant grow.

The enduring estate of Botany Manor is home to retired botanist Arabella Greene. After a long career, she has amassed a collection of rare, long-forgotten plants that require some research to help them live again. Play as Arabella and explore the stunning historic manor and its grounds to look for clues in her notes, books, posters, and items scattered around the residence to determine the correct set of circumstances to help the flora flourish. Unlock new seed varieties and plant them. Interactable items around the property that can be turned and flipped will provide information to help you solve each gardening puzzle, grow the plants and discover their mysterious qualities.

Key Features of Botany Manor include:

Explore the peaceful grounds and many calming rooms of the beautifully rendered, historically accurate 19th-century manor.
Pick up, flip, turn, and rotate the many items found around the estate to piece together the clues to solve each plant-based puzzle.
Learn about Arabella’s life and career, and the challenges she faced as a woman scientist during the 19th century as you explore.
Fall in love with the calming soundtrack that perfectly compliments the environment and flowers you bring to full bloom.

Botany Manor is now available on Nintendo™ Switch 2! It has previously been released on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, on PC via Steam, on Nintendo™ Switch, and on Xbox One and Xbox Series S|X, for $24.99 USD.

Botany Manor is available in the following languages on all platforms: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

To keep your botanical research up to date, be sure to follow Botany Manor on TikTok, Twitter and Instagram, and visit the official website. Follow Balloon Studios on Twitter and the official website.

About Whitethorn Games:

We’re an indie game publisher focusing on pleasant, easy going games. They can be played in pieces, require no special skills or knowledge and anyone can pick up and play them. We’re believers in accessibility, inclusion, and widening the audience that gets to play. We like to consider ourselves the defenders of easy games. While our games might challenge you, they’ll respect your time, they’ll make sure you can play, and most importantly, they’ll never punish you.