Developer posts and news about this game.
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 Abbes
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, Edwige
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 editi
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, Edwige
Hi, While working on the cursors update, I noticed a few issues I wanted to address quickly. Issues with the arrow keys (now the down key effectively goes down) The seeds submenu is now properly centred The maximum speed has been reduced to prevent players from going out of the g
Dear players, I am running a survey to know what updates players are most interested in. The most requested small improvement was a table of contents for the plants in the book ! It has now be added! Seeds UI Making the seed list have a maximum width and being scrollable, so it's
Dear players, Here is a small update, made especially to correct a bug reported by 2 players that occurred when moving marigolds in October 1643, preventing them from becoming mature and providing seeds. Each plant has data about how long it has been on each step (ie: flowering),
I just built the game for MacOs (same version as the PC one)
Dear players, That's it! The game is out in the wild Many thanks to the team, everyone who supported us in the journey, and to the players who bought the game already! 💖 If you played, we would particularly appreciate it if you could spend a few mins reviewing the game, it's ver
Dear players, Here is the first small update after launch! Achievements Fixed Achievements Solomon's Seal and Rose of Provins, which were preventing players to get to 100%. Proofreading Integrated a lot of corrections to both dialogues and UI. Have a nice day! Edwige
Dear players, We are in the final week before the game release! We recently had the good news that the game was reviewed as Playable on Steam Deck :) It's not verified as some text are a bit small, but every one who tested it said it was actually fine :) (Steam is rather strict ;
New partnership with indie.io I have been interested in games for natural & cultural heritage for a while. When I created MD Studio in 2024, I decided that my first game would be a gardening game with real plants set in Port-Royal des Champs in the 17th century. I knew this a
Dear players, I was invited to the Utopiales festival recently. It was initially mostly about sci-fi, but it has become more open to fiction in general. There is a video game area, and the professional gamedev association my studio is part of ( Atlangames ) helps with organising
Dear players! The new demo is out!!! Yay!!! It includes a lot of improvements, new content, and a new gardening system, which I want to introduce to you today! To make the gardening complexity progressive, there are only very easy plants at the beginning of the game. They need an
Hi! The last devlog was about the demo release! It went pretty well and we are happy :) 359 players tried it so far, and 29 answered our demo survey (very useful, thank you!!!) There weren't too many bugs, but I still had to fix some collision and saving issues. I also added a sm
This morning, I clicked on the "Released Demo" button, it was a scary and exciting moment! :) And now, the demo is here! It has improved UI, new character animations, new music and sounds effects... (+ a lot of bugfixes ;) ) So July had been a very busy month, trying to improve t
Many thanks to the playtesters who registered for our beta test! (more than 400!!!). The feedback allowed us to understand what the most pressure issues were patch the game 5 times :) They were all related to what playtesters reported during the alpha and closed beta: better char
Recently, we have been busy adding content to the game and fixing bugs to get the closed beta ready! To apply, click on the big green “Request Access” button on our Steam page! Then I’ll be adding playtesters regularly in the days to come. If you are in the closed playtest, you c
Hi! This week's news is that The Abbess Garden is part of the Steam festival called " Spy Video Game Rendezvous ". As you can expect, it's the only gardening game on that fest, but there are still other cozy games, and I am super happy to be able to show our game to players inter
Hi! Recently, I've been working on the "examine" panel, which used to be very rough and unclear. This panel opens when you use the magnifying glass on a plant to see if it's happy and what it needs. It's still not perfect, but playtesters seem to understand it way better. The cam