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MD Studio · Published by indie.io · Official site ↗
Positive — 87% positive (46 reviews) · 23 achievements
Last updated 4 Oct 2026
Cozy third-person gardening in 1643 France. As Agnès, restore a forbidden abbey garden, grow and identify real plants through the seasons, uncover a spy plot, help the community, and find queer romance.
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Indie, Simulation, Casual · 2026 · More £5 - £15 games
Explore the serene world of The Abbess Garden, where you play as Agnès, restoring an ancient French abbey's forgotten garden. Unveil secrets, cultivate plants, and discover a spy plot while forging connections in this charming indie simulation experience.
About this game
Port-Royal-des-Champs is quiet now. But it isn’t empty.
The stones remember. The garden does too.
You are Agnès, a young peasant trusted with a noble task. 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. What was once majestic has been swallowed by weeds and years.
Take your time. Pull back the wild growth, reveal old paths, and decide what this garden becomes. As the story advances, new areas open up, inviting you deeper into a holy place that’s slowly waking again.
Sometimes restoration is just patience.
Sometimes it’s the first step into something larger.
The garden is alive with real flora, and it behaves like a real ecosystem. Plant seeds, water them, and learn what makes each species thrive. Soil type matters. Moisture matters. Even proximity to other plants matters. There’s no rigid grid here - you’re gardening in a natural, free-form space.
As the seasons turn, discover and identify plants across every stage of their growth. When the moment is right, gather flowers, leaves, and seeds for botany. Your knowledge grows alongside the garden.
Notice what flourishes.
Notice what struggles.
Then gently make it right.
This garden was never only a garden. Hidden objects lie in the overgrowth and ruins, waiting to be found. Each discovery fills out your collections and can trigger new quests and quiet conversations. The abbey holds a long history of wonders - and of things deliberately forgotten.
Among what you uncover is a book written by a deceased spy. Its meaning is dangerous, and the wrong hands are already searching for it. Work with the local community to understand what it says before the British and French royals do.
The dirt hides more than roots.
Keep digging.
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. Progress the story whenever you feel ready, letting it unfold linearly as you restore life to the abbey grounds.
You’ll meet NPCs based on real historical figures and events. You’ll help neighbors. You’ll piece together a quiet conspiracy. And somewhere in all that softness and sunlight, you may find a lover - a romance that grows naturally, like everything else here.
A sanctuary.
A mystery.
A garden that needs you.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 2.4 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB display memory
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
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The Abbess Garden: A Forbidden Garden, 1643
It is 1643, and the abbey garden has been left to go wild deliberately. Nobody is supposed to be tending it. You are going to anyway. The Abbess Garden is cozy third person gardening with rather more going on underneath. As Agnes you bring a forbidden garden back, growing and identifying real plants through the seasons, helping out the people around the abbey and slowly pulling at the threads of a spy plot nobody meant you to notice. There is romance in there too, queer included. The Abbess Garden is on sale during the Steam Autumn Sale, October 1 to October 8. Come and say hello in our DiscordRead full article on Community Announcements (keking26)AnnouncementsOfficial
The Abbess Garden's Devlog 12: 20% Off, updates & new game in the making 👀
Dear players,Firstly, a huge thank you to all of you who bought the game 💖 We sold more than 2000 copies on Steam alone, and that's a great result for a small studio's first game, only available in English! If you didn't get it yet, you might be interested in learning The Abbess Garden is 20% off in the Steam Summer Sale, from June 25 to July 9 🌿I keep updating the game, using the results from our survey, which you can still fill! The last update was for players' comfort: zooming in and out (it was the most requested small feature that was not addressed yet).You can also check out other great indie games on sale published by our partner indie.io on the Summer Sale to add to your collection.Also, it's the last days of the Cozy game jobs simulators! It has a great curated selection of cozy games :)Reviews still matter a lot to us :) So if you played the game, we would appreciate it a lot :) In parallel with improving the game, we are working on a new game! I'll be talking about it in our next newsletter in a few days 👀 You can suscribe here if you are curious! https://theabbessgarden.eo.page/newsletter🌿🌿🌿 I wish you all an excellent day !!!EdwigeRead full article on Community Announcements (alyssa.dicaterino)Patch NotesOfficial
Small update 1.1.7: zoom in and out!
Hi, You can now zoom in and out in the game, using the mouse wheel :) It was the most requested small feature in our survey, so I hope you'll find that useful! Have a nice day, EdwigeRead full article on Community Announcements (Makiihar)Community & EventsOfficial
The Abbess Garden's Devlog 11: Updates & spy festival!
The release is now behind us, so I finally have the time to write this news :) I want to say a big thank you to every player who supported and bought the game!!! It means a lot to us :) Spy rendez-vous!The Spy Video Game Rendezvous is starting today on Steam for its second edition!!! https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45263338/sale/SpyVideoGameRendezvous2026 I have made a special trailer for the showcase! Although The Abbess Garden looks like an outlier there, I'm happy as it allows us to talk about our spy plot 🕵️♀️ If you are curious about real spies, I interview the curator of Port-Royal des Champs, Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac, about real spies of the 17th century:She did her PhD on spies in British islands in the 17th century and worked for a while as head researcher for WWII spy archives, so she really is a specialist of real spies (and Port-Royal, where the game takes place ;) ).Updates since the releaseI have made 5 small updates since the release: MacOs porting, bug fixes, plants table of content, seeds UI improvement, and cursor changing according tor actions (see below)! These were mostly done as the request of players who posted in the Steam forum, on our Discord or answered to our previous survey (see the new one below ;) ). Thanks again for the feedback! I hope you find the game more pleasant now :) More updates to come!The next update I'll be working on is the zoom in, and the hiding of the tree when the character is behind it. We have a small Google Form survey about the next updates based on players' and our ideas :) In addition to updating the game, we have begun working on a new game... It will have a lot in common with The Abbess Garden, but still be rather different 👀 If you are curious, head over to our Discord or Newsletter, where we'll be talking about it soon... 🌿🌿🌿 Reviews still matter a lot to us :) So if you played the game and have a few minutes to spare, we would appreciate it a lot :) I wish you all an excellent day !!!EdwigeRead full article on Community Announcements (Makiihar)Patch NotesOfficial
Small update 1.1.6: action cursors!
Hi, The cursors update is here :) Now, you'll have a different cursor when watering, planting a seed, walking, etc. or when no action is selected! This was often requested, so I hope this quality of life update will offer players a better experience! Have a nice day, EdwigeRead full article on Community Announcements (Makiihar)
