Anne Wood's curse: Long Verecund selected, Use Plant ready

About this game

Developer: Bad Viking · Publisher: Iceberg Interactive · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Painterly illustration · Screen type: Dialogue / Conversation

More Strange Horticulture screens in the Gallery

What to study

Every sale in Strange Horticulture is a diagnosis. Anne Wood's panel gives the player only her name, her portrait and her story, a cursed amulet she cannot remove, drawing the life from her, and the game mechanic is choosing which labelled plant from the shelves answers it. The chosen plant is presented back as evidence before anything happens: the pot, its handwritten 'Long Verecund' label, and a single Use Plant button, so a wrong identification is a deliberate act the player signed, not a misclick. The trailer's narration caption along the bottom ('Long Verecund to lift a curse.') is trailer dressing, not game UI; everything above it, bubbles, label, button, is the game's own interface. Frame at about 0:40 in the Release Date Reveal Trailer (Steam; scene-change survivor v1_0007).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

portrait-panel speech-banner

Components

Parts on screen.

Speech bubble Dialogue box

Screen inventory

• the customer panel at right is headed by a simple name tab, 'Anne Wood', and her request arrives as three stacked speech bubbles in her own words: 'Help me!', 'The amulet.', 'I can't remove it and it's drawing the life from me.', the request is a symptom story, never a plant name, so the diagnosis is the player's job
• the answer the player has chosen sits in a green circular medallion at the bottom of her panel: a potted purple-flowered plant with its handwritten yellow label reading 'Long Verecund' tied to it, and a green 'Use Plant' button at right with the cursor already on it, committing to an identification is one explicit button, pressed while the customer watches
• behind the counter the shop's shelves carry the whole collection as individual potted plants, several with small yellow labels already tied on, and a white arrow at the shelf edge shows the collection scrolls, the inventory is the room itself
• the desk below the shelves is empty brown leather with a gold vine border: the book is closed for this beat, so the frame isolates the serve-the-customer half of the loop from the identify-in-the-book half

Top 3 colors

#3d2012 29%#191710 22%#595b42 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Bad Viking / Iceberg Interactive, Strange Horticulture screenshot: Steam trailers (Announcement Trailer / Release Date Reveal Trailer), Bad Viking, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Iceberg Interactive.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-25. verified 2026-10-25: scene-change survivor candidates/v1_0007.png @ 39.97s in the Release Date Reveal Trailer, MD5 04c11ba11fb3406e212912bae985f16f, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (77,048,241 B, MD5 62004a06a3f1fef7e6c3e0f643ca3e0e; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-1574580-Release-Date-Reveal-Trailer.mp4.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the Anne Wood name tab, all three speech bubbles, the 'Long Verecund' handwritten label on the selected plant and the Use Plant button with cursor all legible; the one line of trailer narration captioning at the very bottom is disclosed in the study note and is not game UI

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-25); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.