Basil's Garden

Basil's Garden is a psychological horror side-scrolling platformer game, developed by Milky Way Studios and released on February 18, 2026 for PC and macOS. It is a spinoff title of OMORI, an RPG maker game of the same theme developed by OMOCAT.
The game focuses on Basil, the best friend of Sunny from OMORI, who must embark on a fantastical adventure through different worlds to rescue his friends from a dark and malevolent entity. Along the way, Basil must confront terrifying images and memories of his real-life experiences that try to throw him off at every turn. The game uses the same hand-drawn and colored artistic style as OMORI, and retains some of its unique gameplay elements, such as Emotions. However, it is unique in it being a side-scrolling platformer game instead of an role-playing game, like its original counterpart.
== Story ==
One bright day, Basil is hanging out with his group of friends next to a lake. His best friend, Sunny, is drawing in his sketchbook; the frenemies Kel and Aubrey are bickering as per usual, and the teenage couple Hero and Mari are having a picnic. Near Sunny, Basil is watering some small roses. He smiles at what will soon become a beautiful red bouquet. 
Suddenly, the earth beneath the group begins to shake. Inky black fissures spread across the ground, and the friends look up to see the sky darkening. Dark lightning strikes the ground, and the wind blows fiercely. The group huddles together, and Mari assures the friends that they’re safe; Basil, however, realizes that Sunny is missing, and sees him curled up in a ball in the distance. He breaks away from the group and tries to reach him, but is stopped when a lightning strike hits Sunny, silences everything and knocks Basil back, rendering him unconscious.
Basil wakes up to a dark and cloudy sky, seeing trees uprooted and debris everywhere. He finds that everyone else has disappeared, and he frantically looks around for them, tearing up thinking about what might have happened to them. Suddenly, the flowers on his flower crown glow yellow; it stayed on his head through the commotion somehow. His crown allows him to see some yellow petals on the ground, and they form a path. Basil follows to investigate, and it leads him to his home, which remains intact. Alongside it is his garden, which normally contains sunflowers, gladioli, roses, lily of the valley, cacti and tulips; however, all such plants are gone.
However, the trail of petals continues past his house and through a forest, and his crown continues to glow and vibrate. Basil places his trust in his crown and follows them, leading him to the damp and gloomy Sunflower Orchards. He explores the area and encounters both docile and hostile animals that seem to have fused with nature, along with sentient plant-life. However, he also discovers large, yellow dandelions that grant him nature-manipulating abilities, thus allowing him to defend himself and make it through the area.
Once he makes it through a few areas, he proceeds with more confidence, only to be stopped by sudden darkness. Blood-red thorns and vines appear in the area, while single, vertical eyes in strange shapes surround him. He becomes terrified, standing on a floor of distorted body parts, and his only escape being dark-brown ropes. He maneuvers himself through this horrific maze, while feeling as if someone is watching him. Eventually, he manages to reach a glowing dandelion, which flashes the area with white and returns him to a partly sunny forest, just where he was before. Relieved, he continues on.