Town building through doing tasks on a bulletin board.
Garden Story starts with you taking care of a farm, but quickly makes you the guardian of a small town that needs help, a lot of help. Each day two or three tasks get put on the bulletin board, and players are expected to help out around town which will help level up the town and progress the story. The quests are procedurally generated, so you’ll often get the same ones, such as asking to repair a bridge you already fixed twice.
Garden Story does have a story that seems interesting, but there’s a lot of busy work and resource gathering that’s going to be required before you can make progress on the narrative. The biggest thing that holds Garden Story back is several annoying UI issues and front-loading a lot of slow unskippable conversations.
Pick this up if you want to do more of the random quests from Stardew Valley, than the farming. Some of the gameplay is good here, but Garden Story comes off as more of an OK experience than a fun adventure. The art though is pretty good.
If you want to see more from me: Check out my video on this month of Game Pass games: https://youtu.be/2fKlHHe39kE
Garden Story starts with you taking care of a farm, but quickly makes you the guardian of a small town that needs help, a lot of help. Each day two or three tasks get put on the bulletin board, and players are expected to help out around town which will help level up the town and progress the story. The quests are procedurally generated, so you’ll often get the same ones, such as asking to repair a bridge you already fixed twice.
Garden Story does have a story that seems interesting, but there’s a lot of busy work and resource gathering that’s going to be required before you can make progress on the narrative. The biggest thing that holds Garden Story back is several annoying UI issues and front-loading a lot of slow unskippable conversations.
Pick this up if you want to do more of the random quests from Stardew Valley, than the farming. Some of the gameplay is good here, but Garden Story comes off as more of an OK experience than a fun adventure. The art though is pretty good.
If you want to see more from me: Check out my video on this month of Game Pass games: https://youtu.be/2fKlHHe39kE