This Gardening Game Lets You Raise Plants from the Dead
Silverstring Media and indie.io are delighted to announce that Greenhearth Necromancer will release on Steam on May 11, 2026!
This charming semi-idle game puts players in the role of Echo, an enby witch and a newly graduated Actual Necromancer who just inherited their late grandmother’s apartment.
As a new arrival at the Greenhearth co-op, they will have to revive a dead garden and figure out their place in the community, all the while enjoying a lo-fi soundtrack and a cozy, chill gameplay experience.
Casual, relaxing gardening remains at the core of Greenhearth Necromancer, with a deliberate design that upends conventional idle game designs. Rather than anxiously watching countdown tickers for the next dopamine hit, players are free to grow and revive Echo’s garden as they see fit, experimenting with necromantic spells, magical potions, and more traditional methods of gardening.
Each plant responds differently to how much sunlight or water it receives, whether it’s alive through conventional means or undead through unconventional ones - and figuring out how to keep them thriving is one side of the coin. The other is figuring out where Echo belongs in the community. Their grandmother was a pillar of Greenhearth’s community, and her grandchild finds themselves (mostly) warmly welcomed.
Players are free to define how they fit among the other magical and non-magical residents of the cooperative, accompanied by a quirky familiar, an animated compost heap that will gingerly help turn any gardening mishaps into fertilizer. The narrative is explored through an event deck, mixing key story beats with random events to let players choose when they want to focus on gardening and when to explore the heartfelt story - penned by Lindsay Ishihiro of I Was a Teenage Exocolonist fame.
This lack of pressure is a deliberate choice, designed to upend the “traditional” semi-idle gameplay conventions. It can be safely left to idle in the background, with a gentle lofi soundtrack providing an excellent background for work, study, or rest. At the same time, it’s always ready to be picked up at any moment and enjoyed to provide a calming break from the daily anxieties.
Ready to experience a new kind of idle game? Greenhearth Necromancer and a new take on gardening release on Steam on May 11, 2026!