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Garden Simulator

by Aethyna Sep 9, 2022 | 1 Votes | 44 Played | 0 Reviews

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SunDust Garden Simulator is a simulation game where you get to set up your very own garden in the backyard of your new home out in the woods. Tend to your garden, cultivate various crops and flowers, keep your lawn mowed, and place pretty décor to beautify the place, all the while completing tasks from your new neighbors! Play Now Similar Games Played Post a Review

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Summary

Garden Simulator is a simulation game where you get to set up your very own garden in the backyard of your new home out in the woods. Tend to your garden, cultivate various crops and flowers, keep your lawn mowed, and place pretty décor to beautify the place, all the while completing tasks from your new neighbors!

Plotline

In this game, you play as a city folk who felt burned out after working from home for several months. For the sake of your well-being, you decided to take it slow and take care of the family property left to you by your great-aunt Ellie out in the woods for just a few days.

Funnily enough, those few days of idyllic joy cultivating your garden made you decide to leave your high-paying IT job in the city and move permanently to the family home to become a garden owner.

Gameplay

As you might expect from a game called Garden Simulator, the whole premise of the game is for you to cultivate your garden, decorate it, and turn it into something you’d be proud of.

At the very beginning, you’ll be earning most of your “garden coins”, the in-game currency, by clearing trash from your garden. It was left unattended to for quite some time, after all! However, it’s wise to invest your coins on some seeds and to plant them as soon as you can. You’ll want to grab a push mower too to cut the grasses on your lawn since the bags of grasses you get can also be sold – funnily enough, by dumping the bags in the dumpster - for some coins.

As a garden simulator, the game has plenty of seeds for you to plant and grow. There are seeds for various crops, ranging from peppers to strawberries and even pumpkins, where you can harvest crops from repeatedly. For flowers and the other seeds, like mushrooms and leek, you can only harvest them once, but they usually sell for more coins than your average crops. Naturally, this means that the price of the seeds is higher as well.

You’ll start off with a handful of seeds available, but you can easily unlock more as you progress. However, it’s crucial to take note of the specific requirements needed to unlock a certain seed. This is the same for unlocking new garden decorations and gardening tools as well.

Each plant usually will take some time to grow, however, that is only true provided that you remember to water them once every day. Eventually, as you progress, you can set up sprinklers and take away the mundane chore of having to water every single plant in your burgeoning garden. You’ll also want to pull out any weeds that are invading your garden plots just so your plants can grow more healthily.

Once you’ve unlocked the compost, you can even save the bags of grasses or the weeds you’ve pulled, dump them in the compost, wait for a day, and you should have a batch of fertilizer that is good for fertilizing 6 plants. Fertilized plants will yield higher quality crops and flowers, which will, in turn, sell for more money.

Performing various actions at your garden will earn you experience points too. Once a milestone is reached and you leveled up, you’ll then be able to invest the skill point you get in a skill that you think might be helpful, whether it is in Watering, Mowing, Agriculturist, Trader, Compost Master, Florist or Fast Learner. For instance, if you mostly plant and grow crops, then maxing out the Agriculturist skill would increase both the speed of harvest and the profits you get from selling off your crops.

But personally, I would suggest maxing out the Fast Learner skill first mainly because it grants you compounding benefits and can help you gain new skill points a lot faster.

Besides planting, growing and harvesting your plants or selling your garbage for coins, the game will give you tasks periodically with specific objectives that you’re expected to complete. They are entirely optional, of course, but completing these tasks will usually net you a big bunch of monies, pushing you that much closer to getting your next upgrade or to unlock a new section of your garden.

Of course, beautifying your garden is also an important, though optional, part of the gameplay. You’re given a nice variety of décor that you can use to spruce up the place, from differently-sized hedges to sheds, benches, pots, and even an insane variety of garden gnomes. You are free to place the décor as you like, whether in free form mode or by sticking to the grids provided. There isn’t any specially themed décor, however. I reckon these might be added in game patches later on.

As much fun as I had in this game, the game can be a tad bit grindy and it does take quite a while to unlock the second section of your garden, as opposed to the first section. The game also has some pretty annoying bugs... and I don’t mean it in the literal sense. At one point, my big watering can got stuck somehow and I wasn’t able to use it at all. I also couldn’t figure out how to store or sell my old tools as they still clog up my hotbar despite having a much better version already purchased and equipped.

I’ve also noticed that I couldn’t place the vines that hang around the house onto a wall or something, for aesthetic reasons, after removing them from some place else. I reckon this is the case because these vines are considered “garbage” in this game and is only good for the dumpster.

I’ve got a suggestion for the game as well – I think that the game would benefit from adding a sandbox mode, allowing players to decorate their garden as they wish using whatever game assets that are available. Adding access to Steam workshop and allowing players to create and import their own assets would be great too, but that can come much, much later, depending on how well-received the sandbox mode is.

Graphics/ Sound

The graphics in this game is absolutely fantastic. Everything from your own backyard to the flowers and crops you grow look gorgeous here. Due to this, it’s such a pity that the game doesn’t have a photo mode though. In terms of sound, the game comes with a relaxing tune that matches with the chill pace of the game.

Conclusion

To put it simply, Garden Simulator is a game that offers a gameplay experience that’s exactly as advertised! You’ll get to plant a variety of crops and flowers, water them, harvest them for cash, and beautify your garden. You can also fill your time with some lawn mowing, weed pulling, composting and more as you unlock new sections of your garden and progress through the game. However, the game does still have some bugs that may soft lock your game. Hopefully the devs will be able to fix these issues in a patch or two.