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Play Overview
A Good Gardener (2024) is a gardening simulation where you grow plants for your country's war effort. Play involves exploring a bombed-out home to place seeds and water them to grow. It stands out for how the fruit of your plants unsettle your cosy garden with a story about conflict.
It's a short story game about new things growing in ruined places. Play is a cycle of planting your seeds, watering them and protecting them from birds and weeds. Weather changes so that some days it rains and waters your plants for you. Other days it's sunny and you need to be meticulous with your watering can. As you return to your garden each day you slowly learn the story behind the world and your character.
As you progress your plants grow unexpected fruits and flowers that lead to more of the story. Once fully grown the plants are taken away and it becomes apparent that you are as much a prisoner as a gardener.
The result is a game that invites you not only to tend a garden but reflect on the tension between making and destroying. Can you grow something good in an oppressive place? Can destructive objects be the fruit of tender care?
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked A Good Gardener 7 months ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 6 months ago.
It's a short story game about new things growing in ruined places. Play is a cycle of planting your seeds, watering them and protecting them from birds and weeds. Weather changes so that some days it rains and waters your plants for you. Other days it's sunny and you need to be meticulous with your watering can. As you return to your garden each day you slowly learn the story behind the world and your character.
As you progress your plants grow unexpected fruits and flowers that lead to more of the story. Once fully grown the plants are taken away and it becomes apparent that you are as much a prisoner as a gardener.
The result is a game that invites you not only to tend a garden but reflect on the tension between making and destroying. Can you grow something good in an oppressive place? Can destructive objects be the fruit of tender care?
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked A Good Gardener 7 months ago. It was re-examined by Ellen Robertson and updated 6 months ago.
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Play Style
This is a Narrative and Simulation game with Adventure and Creative elements. This is a single-player game.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Rated for younger players in the US. Rated ESRB TEEN for Blood and Violence.
Skill Level
8+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Still, it's important for parents and guardians to consider the maturity required to process the game content. You don't need quick reactions for this game. The focus is on tending the plants and considering the consequences. You do need some maturity to appreciate the tensions of the themes that unfold.
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Game Details
Release Date: 15/11/2024
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Narrative, Simulation (Adventure and Creative)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 3D First-Person, Cartoon and Weather
Developer: Turn Follow (@_TurnFollow)
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