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Play Overview
The Garden Path (2024) is a slice-of-life simulation game about the small pleasures of gardening. You tend to a world and make it your own through fishing, growing, trading and making new friends. As you do an adventure emerges.
After leaving your old life you head to the wilderness and discover a long-forgotten garden in the dense woods, waiting to be tended. Play involves exploring the space, planting and growing things. Unlike many gardening games, the focus here is on a slower pace of life and the quiet moments of reflection.
Although you can play as long as you like, there's no need to spend hours here. Time proceeds in concert with the real world. Things grow while you are away, and the passing of real-world seasons heralds new encounters and new stories.
As you spend time in the world, charming inhabitants will come and go. Bunk, the tea-brewing macaque. Larto, a Greenlandic Musk Ox with a penchant for song-fish. The characters are strange and intriguing. Some will be passing through but as you tend your patch of land some visitors will make their home alongside your own.
The result is a calming game about slowing down and taking time. You can discover a tender world of familiar sights and sounds, melodies, and friendly faces. A space to call your own, to curate, and to reflect.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked The Garden Path 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 4 weeks ago.
After leaving your old life you head to the wilderness and discover a long-forgotten garden in the dense woods, waiting to be tended. Play involves exploring the space, planting and growing things. Unlike many gardening games, the focus here is on a slower pace of life and the quiet moments of reflection.
Although you can play as long as you like, there's no need to spend hours here. Time proceeds in concert with the real world. Things grow while you are away, and the passing of real-world seasons heralds new encounters and new stories.
As you spend time in the world, charming inhabitants will come and go. Bunk, the tea-brewing macaque. Larto, a Greenlandic Musk Ox with a penchant for song-fish. The characters are strange and intriguing. Some will be passing through but as you tend your patch of land some visitors will make their home alongside your own.
The result is a calming game about slowing down and taking time. You can discover a tender world of familiar sights and sounds, melodies, and friendly faces. A space to call your own, to curate, and to reflect.
Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked The Garden Path 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 4 weeks ago.
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Play Style
This is an Adventure and Simulation game with Collecting, Narrative, Sequencing and Traversal elements. You can play with 1 to 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Duration
Play Time: It takes between 15 minutes and half an hour to play a round of this game. The game can last as long as you like. Most will play in short daily sessions.
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Skill Level
10+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game.
Costs
Game Details
Release Date: 30/07/2024
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Players: 1-2
Genres: Adventure, Simulation (Collecting, Narrative, Sequencing and Traversal)
Accessibility: 26 features
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Open World and Persistant World
Developer: From Carrot Cake (@FromCarrotCake)
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