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  • Summary: NACON and stillalive studios are happy to announce the development of Garden Life, a gardening sandbox game where players can plant, cultivate, decorate, and manage their own peaceful garden oasis in a breathtakingly beautiful environment.

    Plant and nurture the garden of your dreams in this
    NACON and stillalive studios are happy to announce the development of Garden Life, a gardening sandbox game where players can plant, cultivate, decorate, and manage their own peaceful garden oasis in a breathtakingly beautiful environment.

    Plant and nurture the garden of your dreams in this 'first of its kind' experience where there are no limits to conjuring your creativity.

    With a cosy visual style and a gameplay rooted in reality, this warm and relaxing game lets you grow your favorite real-world flowers, shrubs, fruits and vegetables to bring your garden to life. Thanks to procedural generation and advanced growth visualization simulation technology, no two plants look identical - just like in real life.

    Keep your garden thriving and happy in varying weather events, give your plants the care they require, meet fun characters from your gardening community, and discover many more surprises!
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  1. Feb 22, 2024
    90
    Quotation forthcoming.
  2. Feb 22, 2024
    70
    While Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator’s longevity feels somewhat artificially expanded, as you’ll need to repeatedly wait for seeds to spawn randomly, we can’t lie: we’ve had a lovely time tending to our flowers and seeing our garden take shape. The story mode has a good sense of progression, and reaching the next goal or meeting a new character is always a cause for celebration. We wish there wasn’t a limit on how many plants we can have, though.
  3. Feb 22, 2024
    70
    Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator offers a visually enchanting experience with its beautiful and highly stylized graphics, evoking a storybook charm that seamlessly blends reality with whimsy. The game provides players with a ton of freedom and the relaxing fantasy of cultivating a community garden. However, some bugs, optimization problems, and developer oversights underscore the need for additional polish. With a little work, the game has the potential to blossom into something truly special.
  4. Apr 10, 2024
    70
    The laid-back flower grower simulator has its flaws, but it offers relaxing gameplay in a nice way.
  5. Mar 7, 2024
    68
    Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator is a relaxed experience that lets you build your own botanical wonderland. But with restrictions that are as stringent as your average HOA agreement, you’ll undoubtedly have to scale back on some of your ambitions.
  6. Mar 19, 2024
    50
    Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator is a beautiful game that offers a relaxing experience, but some design choices clearly need extra watering. Unfortunately, its stylish charm can’t make up for repetitive gameplay and lacklustre progression.