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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. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. 85
    Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator is a heart-warming and touching game. Furthermore, its attention to detail is fascinating. However, the small gaming world may disappoint some gamers. I loved the characters, the audio, and the straightforward mechanics. As such, this slow-paced title should be enjoyed between fast-paced triple-A titles.
  2. Feb 26, 2024
    80
    Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator provides a calming experience for garden enthusiasts. Thanks to Stillalive Studios and Nacon, aspiring gardeners now have a new comfort game to enjoy. While performing tasks can be rather tedious there’s much more that the game can offer both visually and creatively.
  3. Apr 2, 2024
    75
    Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator was as advertised; a cozy gardening game, but I found the tasks quite repetitive and wished there was more variety of things to do. I am hopeful that the developers will add some additional content, possibly some more flower varieties as well. More than anything else, I hope they fix the messy inventory system. Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator is like a seedling in a greenhouse. It has all the parts to make something beautiful and is just waiting for the right gardener to come along and spend some time with it.
  4. Mar 1, 2024
    70
    In a way, Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator feels like a small flower that’s been given the best soil, the biggest pot and plenty of love, but it’s too tiny and too dainty to make use of that space. It’s a bedding plant that needs more around it to really flourish. As it stands, it feels lonely.
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  1. Feb 23, 2024
    Garden Life: A Cosy Simulator is undoubtedly a great game to take a well-needed break. With its splendid art direction, simple gameplay and attention to detail in the flowers and sound effects, you really feel at one with nature. It is poetic and sometimes even forlorn, as you learn more about the main storyline. Unfortunately, the main storyline’s requirements are a little disappointing, too repetitive and similar to the secondary quests, which often require you to accomplish the same objectives. Fortunately, the main interest of this game is creativity, and it offers all the tools you need to express yourself freely.