Garden Story

released on Aug 11, 2021

Unify a broken community as the newly-appointed Guardian of The Grove. Traverse a vibrant island to combat invasive Rot, inspire its inhabitants, and rebuild your home. You won't have to do this alone: fruity friends await, ready to lend a hand!


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Loved it in the beginning, but it makes you travel around all the time, and then forces a certain time of day as well, just QoL issues. Had to push through the final hours.

had a fun time w art style, management-like daily quests, and even fighting (which i don't usually care for)

Bits and pieces got repetitive but overall the main storyline guides you thru

A cute and cozy game with top down Zelda combat and some town upgrades thrown in. It was pretty simple and I didn't run into any trouble with the combat at all though it did get repetitive. The story had a message behind it which was nice but I felt like the story was very much in the background compared to the rest of the things you could do in the game. There is a slight grind for resources to upgrade the town but nothing exhaustive.

Para um jogo que se vende como um RPG fofinho, ele excede nisso muito bem. Não tem nada muito complexo ou desafiador no jogo (a não ser algumas mecânicas chatas nas fases mais avançadas e uns inimigos que podiam ter um design melhor), então é bem gostoso conhecer esse mundo. A história podia ser um pouquinho mais curta, e o grinding para os upgrades dos itens com certeza podia ter sido revisado.

Cute little game drawing from classic Zelda, but without as much of the charm and puzzling that I think made those games great. Plays mostly fine, and the low-key management/upgrading village stuff is nice for a change but makes it a bit of a chore sometimes, particularly early on when finding some resources is harder than others.

Tries to engage with an environmental message, but I couldn't follow what was what until kinda late on - just some confusing naming so it washed over me a bit, despite being quite basic in the end.

Decent fun, but nothing particularly stand-out for me.

I started this game back when it was first put on game pass and restarted it again recently because it's leaving game pass but it really didn't click with me. It seems cute but it starts really slow and the combat was not enjoyable, so I'm shelving this one.