VGChartz’s Lee Mehr: “The lynchpin to Botany Manor’s success is it being like an orderly garden: a well-attended array of various flowers with nary a dastardly weed in sight. It may not capture the next mind-blowing concept within the genre, nor overwhelm you with a wild barrage of challenges, but there’s an understated value in being among the most succinct within its field. To briefly trade flower comparisons for vegetables, it’s like an onion where every layer adds to the greater whole. Something would feel off if more were added just for its own sake. By hyper-focusing on the brightest brainteasers, quality level design that effectively uses every square inch, and an incredibly clean (if simple) visual design for players to immediately understand, Balloon Studios finds fertile ground between tranquility and challenge.”
