New Plant Acquired: banner over the shelves, map and Day 2 rail

About this game

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

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What to study

Finding a plant in the wild gets the game's one moment of ceremony: a moss-edged green banner, 'New Plant Acquired', laid across the seam between the two workspaces it connects, the labelled shelves above, the gridded collecting map below, with a single OK to dismiss it. The composition is the game's loop in one frame: go out on the map, come back with a specimen, and only then start the real work of identifying it, which is why the banner pointedly does not name what was found. The right rail's 'Day 2 / Saturday' plate and the two dread/inspection meters stay visible around the banner, keeping the acquisition inside the shop's ongoing calendar instead of a separate results screen. The trailer's narration caption along the bottom is trailer dressing, not game UI. Frame at about 0:28 in the Release Date Reveal Trailer (Steam; manual extraction from the 1 fps fine pass over the window 14–36s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

result-banner reward-row alert-banner

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner Document Grid Map Compass Gauge Clock

Screen inventory

• a wide green banner with torn, mossy edges stretches across the middle of the screen carrying a single line in display lettering, 'New Plant Acquired', flanked by curl ornaments, with one small green OK button under it, a new specimen joins the collection as a full-width announcement that pauses everything else
• above the banner the shop shelves are still visible with the collection in place, small yellow labels tied to individual pots, and the right-hand rail shows the game's quiet chrome: gear, information and person icons over a 'Day 2 / Saturday' date plate, the day counter is part of the shop furniture
• below the banner the collecting map lies open on the desk where the excursion happened, its grid letters (g to q) and compass rose visible at left, beside two of the round meters, 'A CLOSER INSPECTION' (microscope) and 'A RISING DREAD' (skull), the banner bridges the two workspaces, shelves above and map below, because acquiring happens between them
• nothing in the banner names the plant: the reward is the addition to the collection itself, and its identity is still to be worked out back at the desk with the book

Top 3 colors

#1e130d 25%#5e6a4a 23%#687b52 15%

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: manual extraction manual-newplant-28.png @ ~28s in the Release Date Reveal Trailer, MD5 69fd660b8ee58adaef52a1363f5b01a3, 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 'New Plant Acquired' banner and its OK button, the Day 2 / Saturday rail plate, the labelled shelf pots above and the gridded map with A CLOSER INSPECTION / A RISING DREAD dials below all legible; the one line of trailer narration captioning at the very bottom is disclosed in the study note and is not game UI

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