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Restore an abandoned community garden by planting and tending flowers, fulfilling neighbors’ requests, and designing freely.
Released 22 Feb 2024
Restore a Community Garden
Grow Flower Variants
Design Off-Grid Gardens
Garden Life is a relaxing gardening game in which you create your dream garden in a peaceful, colourful world. Plant and add ornaments at your own pace, transforming an overgrown forgotten plot into a flourishing community garden.
Developed by stillalive studios · Published by Nacon
You take charge of an abandoned community garden and work to restore it. In story mode, neighbors give you requests that help guide your progress and reveal more about the garden.
Plant seeds, water and fertilize flowers, trim their growth, manage weeds and pests, and collect flowers and seeds. Plants grow in different ways, including climbing nearby structures, and can produce color variants.
Complete requests to earn rewards and unlock tools, seeds, ornaments, and new garden areas. Sell flowers and bouquets at the village stall, donate flowers to pavilion sculptures, or use creative mode to design with the garden, seeds, and ornaments already unlocked.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its calm atmosphere, flower-growing and garden-design freedom, and the satisfaction of watching plants develop; some also enjoy the story and neighbor requests. Recurring complaints include the plant limit, repetitive tending and requests, random waits for specific seed variants, awkward storage and journal navigation, and crashes or other technical problems reported by some players.
Plant and nurture your dream garden using gardening techniques based in real life and adapted for everyone to enjoy:
You are in charge of an abandoned community garden and decide to roll up your sleeves to restore it to its former glory. Complete tasks given to you by your neighbours to earn rewards, unlock new tools, seeds, ornaments and areas of the garden, and learn more about what lies behind this secluded spot.
Instantly unlock every corner of your garden, including all the seeds and ornaments, and give free rein to your creativity: in this restriction-free mode, you can bring your dream designs to life!
Procedural growth simulation developed specifically for the game ensures each plant grows in its own way! Each and every plant grows procedurally, and some even adapt to their environment by climbing if planted close to certain objects.
In Garden Life, you are not restricted by a grid: place plants and objects freely to create your designs!
Head to the village square to sell flowers and bouquets at your stall and use the earnings to buy new seeds, ornaments and tools in the shop. You can also donates flowers to help create huge floral sculptures in the pavilion and win adorable prizes!
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| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 37 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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