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Set in 1643 France, The Abbess Garden is a cozy third-person gardening simulation where you play as Agnès, tasked with restoring a forbidden abbey garden, growing and identifying real plants through the seasons, uncovering a spy plot, helping the community, and finding queer romance. The game is set at Port-Royal-des-Champs, a real historical site in the heart of France.

The Abbess has given you the keys to her personal garden—a place even the mysterious Solitaires living near the abbey are forbidden to enter. You pull back wild growth, reveal old paths, and decide what this garden becomes. The garden is alive with real flora and behaves like a real ecosystem, with your knowledge growing alongside the garden. Gameplay involves examining plants and ground, watering, digging, sowing, replanting, adding soil, harvesting, and recording inventory of each species. Different plants need different conditions like specific soils, water quantities, and growth periods, with some requiring proximity to other species.

Even with court drama and espionage in the background, your days remain peaceful. The Abbess Garden is cozy at heart—a small world where you garden at your own pace, completing gentle quests and tending plants until they're happy. Among what you uncover is a book written by a deceased spy, its meaning dangerous, with the wrong hands already searching for it. The gameplay includes growing plants, exploring the garden for new plants or collectibles and identifying them, decorating the garden, with some visual novel aspect featuring historical spies, court drama and queer romance.

Created by a women-led development team and featured in several female-oriented indie development showcases, The Abbess Garden emphasizes care, patience, and atmosphere over urgency. The game appeals to players seeking narrative-driven cozy experiences that blend historical authenticity with gentle gameplay mechanics, offering a contemplative alternative to action-focused titles.