Logos of MD Studio: Google Drive
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The Abbess Garden Press Kit
Press Kit for The Abbess Garden: Google Drive. You’ll find art assets (characters, logo, artworks), screenshots and trailers.
🌿Fact Sheet
📆 Release Date: March 2, 2026
💰 Price: 9.99$ (9.49€)
💻 Platform: Steam PC, SteamDeck (Playable), Mac Os, GOG
Developer: MD Studio
Location: Craon, France
Distribution partner: Indie.io
🌿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’s 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 MD Studio
MD Studio is a new indie game development company based in France. It was founded in August 2024 by Edwige Lelièvre.
📚 Newsletter Archive
- 1: Real plants in a video game?
- 2: The Origin Story & Capitulare de Villis
- 3: Meet Agnès, the main character, and Joy, our character designer
- 4: The Alpha Test begins & Hildegard of Bingen
- 5: The Passing of Time
- 6: Real Spies of the 17th Century & 3D art
- 7: Steam page launch
- 8: Music of The Abbess Garden and Laurène, our composer
- 9: Creating a company with a coach: Léa
- 10: Closed beta
- 11: 1st Demo announcement
- 12: Romance in The Abbess Garden
- 13: Demo update
- 14: Sage Creation Process in Blender
- 15: Release date announcement and partnership with indie.io
- 16: Where the game takes place: Port-Royal des Champs