Grunn review – part gardening sim, part survival horror thriller PC; Tom van den Boogaart/SokpopPleasant pottering tending the hedgerows turns into an eerie puzzler full of peril, delivering more than the rural idyll it first promises.
Once you find your shears and trowel you can spend time tidying the hedges and digging up mole hills, but you can also explore the tiny hamlet and its lonely haunted locations, often finding discarded Polaroid snaps which give you photographic clues to where the next tool, implement or puzzle item may be found.
Grunn is somehow part gardening sim, part point-and-click adventure and part survival horror thriller.
But there’s something wrong in designer Tom van den Boogaart’s surreal and quietly eerie puzzle game.
A week in a remote Dutch village tending to the garden of an absent homeowner; birds tweeting in the trees, a picturesque church just over the lane.
