Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator Reviews

The only annoying thing about this game is if you play on different computers, (aka what i do) if you do not change the plant view, it will REMOVE a ton of your plants aka your progress. You will need to then redo all the work. Other than that, great game, and super relaxing.

Absolutely charming. A surprisingly realistic garden, fully voice-acted characters, lovely soundscape, this game is fantastic. Every little detail was made with love, and it shows. I loved building up the garden while helping out villagers, and the memories of Robin that you get are so heartfelt and sweet.

Very calming and soothing with good plant information

Beautiful graphics, Lovely world to spend time in, Not stressful.

My girlfriend uses my PC more than me, just for this game. This is currently the most played game on MY Steam account. So I recommend this on her behalf. She loves her cutesy little garden.

6/10. If you want a cozy game to play while listening to an audiobook, podcast, or whatever entertainment you enjoy - this is the game for you. Casual, gotta-collect-em-all gameplay, as you are trying to collect every type of flower and every colour option available. I loved the beginning hours. It had an addictive gameplay loop and unlocking more of your garden and more colours was very satisfying. After those initial hours, it did turn into quite the chore in my opinion. You have to build statues with certain flowers in certain colours, but it's entirely up to RNG when you will unlock them. I spend hours and hours trying to get pink roses and they were literally the last rose type for me to show up, even though you need pink roses for one of the very first statues. I wish it was a bit less random because it made me feel like I was just sitting around without being able to make more progress in the middle to late stages of the game. It's also not too customisable (only two real options for any of the main parts of your garden, and there are very few decoration themes), and i am missing a more diverse pathing option or ways to organise your garden. Some tools in the shop do not have a proper description which can cause confusion of what you can actually use them for, and there is no search option in any of the menus, so the moment you have a ton of flowers, you will be scrolling back and forth through pages and pages of them before finding the one you need. I really enjoyed a lot of my time in this game, but the gameplay loop did get a bit frustrating and repetitive as I made progress. I'd very much recommend it to anyone into cosy games.

I played close to 100 hours and here is my review: At first i had an issue due to my keyboard being in french, the keybinds were all over the place. I reached out to the game devs and was kindly helped through my issue (my error as well, had a controler plugged in and couldnt edit the binds, my dumb. orz) but they were very kind and a note was passed on to attempt a fix. Result: ever since the issue was solved, i simply got addicted to growing flowers, collecting variant colors, editing my garden to be a little peace of heaven. I thoroughly enjoy the possibility of creating a peaceful covered garden viewing space at my own pace. Very relaxing at a very stressful time. The graphics are beautiful, the gameplay is mostly only pros, simple, doesnt stress you out... Unless we talk about those Purple hydrangea variants who seems to not want to spawn on some saves but not on others? When im stuck i start over and when i can unlock the greenhouse i keep that save. Encourage everyone to at least try it out. Con: still have some tiny quirks to the game. Pros: very cosy, very peaceful, very enjoyable!

Honestly I love this game from start to almost finish. I feel seen, it is wholesome, great to play on or off stream. Yes i dream of more for the game's future which will be exciting to see if anything else happens. was really glad when the plant limit was extended. Everything is just so god darn pretty. I am also apparently about 30yrs off being Leslie.

The only reason I don't recommend this game is the flower quantity limit (I have so much open space left to fill but can't due to the limit on plants I can have). Once they fix that and perhaps add some more interesting quests/expansion areas I'll pick it up again.