A Cosy Witchy Mystery: An Interview with Bad Viking Games

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

MCP host Hallie sites down with John and Rob Donkin, also known as Bad Viking Games, to discuss thier cozy mystery game Strange Horticulture. You are the owner of horticultural shop in the bleak town of Undermere. Many of the plants you stock can heal or harm. When murder strikes, you are dragged into a web of intreague involving witches, cults, and many toxic plants.

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0:00.0	Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:18.0	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid
0:22.5	curiosity, and it has gripped millions of people throughout the ages. I am one of those people.
0:29.6	My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast. Hello, listeners. For those of you unfamiliar, back in Podcast.
0:38.7	Hello, listeners.
0:46.9	For those of you unfamiliar, back in 2022, the Morbid Curiosity podcast had a giveaway in which we gave away the game codes for a cozy little game called Strange Horticulture.
0:52.2	In this game, you play as the owner of a horticulturalist shop,
0:56.8	or an herbalist, if you will. People come to your shop every day asking for plants to help them
1:02.3	with their daily lives. Through your work, you learn of a mystery occurring in the town of
1:07.8	Undermere, where your shop is based, as you find, research, and label plants, as well as make potions and tend to your cat
1:16.3	Helbor, you are dragged further and further into the mystery, learning of murder, mayhem,
1:23.2	and the summoning of an ancient evil.
1:25.8	This game was developed by Bad Viking, a video game development
1:29.3	company made up of two brothers, Rob and John Duncan. They're based in the UK and have
1:35.4	been making games together for well over a decade, and have published a wide variety of genres,
1:41.2	but strange horticulture, the plant-based detective mystery, is the one that caught
1:46.5	the eyes of the morbid curiosity podcast.
1:49.4	And that's what we're going to talk about today.
1:53.0	Do you want to just start?
1:54.7	Sure.
1:55.6	Yeah, good to go.
1:57.4	I mean, it's interesting.
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