In Max's dorm room, there's a plant by the window that the player can choose to water. When the player does this, the butterfly icon appears and the game says "This action will have consequences..."

What sort of consequences? I ask because other than

being a postgame statistic

it's never revisited for the rest of the first episode, not even so much as a mention in conversations or even Max's internal monologue. Most other actions (with a couple more exceptions) have some influence later in the game, even if they don't end up dramatically altering the course of the storyline (I won't say which ones).

Or is that the consequence the game is referring to (in which case it makes it seem kind of one-dimensional, gameplay-wise)? Will it become a plot point only in a future episode?

Update: in the second episode, you begin by waking up in Max's dorm room, and one of the first things you can do here is — wait for it — water the plant again, and with no other immediate effect than "This action will have consequences...", again.

Something tells me we're going to get the option to water it once per episode, as each episode takes place over the course of one day, and we're going to see the outcome only on the last day.