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CALENDULA

75% positive of 330 Steam reviews

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Released
2016
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Blooming Buds Studio.

About the game

How to play a game that doesn't want to be played? Calendula is an experimental meta game about trying to play a game. Use your logic to thrive against conventions and get surrounded by a dark atmosphere.

Tagged by players

  • Psychological Horror
  • Puzzle
  • Horror
  • Surreal

What players say

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Deliberately glitchy, unstable and constantly fracturing, Calendula is hot on the heels of the recent Pony Island for the most meta game of 2016. We must manipulate a broken menu screen to be able to play the horror game 'Calendula'. But the game resists being played, actively evading the player with its constantly shifting commands. It takes the broken menu puzzles of Pony Island and makes a complete experience of…

    2.3 h played when written. 21 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I hate to have to say this... I really do. I loved the game... but I cannot recommend it to people, especially at the current price tag it has. The game is good, it has great atmosphere to it and its all psychological in its presentation. I love games like that. The problem here... its too short. You can get through it all well within 30 to 40 minutes and thats the game. If the price drops... I do recommend a…

    55 min played when written. 47 found it helpful.

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