🌿Fact Sheet

📆 Release Date: Autumn 2025

💻 Platform: PC Steam

Developer: MD Studio Location: Craon, France

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🌿About the Game

The Abbess Garden is a third-person gardening game set in an abandoned abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs, in the heart of France.

It's 1643, and you play as Agnès, a young peasant at the centre of a spy intrigue.

Grow real plants 🌱

Nurture the Abbess garden using gardening techniques based on real horticulture.
When it’s the right time, gather more seeds, flowers, roots and leaves for botany and medicine.
Find and identify all plants at all their evolution stages as you explore the garden, through the changing seasons.

Complete your collections and expand your garden ✨

Other objects are hidden in the garden and unlock new quests and dialogues.
Unlock new parts of your garden as you progress through the story.

Historical plot with spies, court drama and queer romance 🕵️

The abbey harbours many secrets and wonders of years long gone. It is now used by the mysterious Solitaires taking their lodging in the area. But one place remains forbidden to them. The Abbess gave to you, Agnès, the keys to her personal and majestic garden. You have been tasked to restore the holy place. Yet more than just ragworts and critters hide in the weeds…

Discover a book written by a deceased spy, help the local community understand it before the British and French royals and find love!
Meet historical characters as NPC

🌿 About the Developer MD Studio

MD Studio is a new indie developer based in France. It was founded in August 2024 by Edwige Lelièvre.

The team working on The Abbess Garden includes:

Joy: 2D character artist (previously Ubisoft, currently freelance art director & game director at Purple Meadows),