Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator

A gardening simulator with freeform planting and community requests

stillalive studios · Published by Nacon · Released Feb 22, 2024

Reviews: Mostly Positive; 76% of 1,706
Recent reviews: Mixed; 63% of 11 in 30 days
Playing now: 24; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: 1 year ago; Feb 11, 2025

What is Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator?

In this single-player gardening simulator, you restore an abandoned community garden by planting flowers, tending them, pulling weeds, and placing ornaments without a grid. In story mode, neighbors' requests unlock seeds, tools, and new garden areas. Creative mode starts with the garden, seeds, and ornaments unlocked.

For you if...

+you enjoy arranging plants and ornaments freely
+you like completing requests to expand a garden

Not for you if...

−you dislike routine watering, trimming, and weeding
−you want quick access to specific flower varieties

What players say

76% of 1,706 reviews are positive · 63% of 11 in the last 30 days

Players praise the relaxed pace, colorful flowers, and garden designs. Their most common complaint is the plant limit, which they say leaves too much garden space empty. Some also report crashes or lost saves and find storage management cumbersome.

Screenshots and trailer

Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 or AM D Ryzen 5 1400
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R9 280X, 3 GB
Memory: 8 GB RAM
DirectX: Version 11
Notes: Graphics cards tests have been ran on desktop versions. Laptop versions of these graphics cards should work, but are not officially supported.

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-8600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080, 8 GB or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT, 16 GB
Memory: 16 GB RAM
DirectX: Version 11
Notes: Graphics cards tests have been ran on desktop versions. Laptop versions of these graphics cards should work, but are not officially supported.

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Full controller support
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 37
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing

Steam Deck: Playable

Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
Default configuration is not performant
All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
Shows Steam Deck controller icons
External controllers are not supported for the primary player

Multiplayer and co-op

Single-player

Languages

Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Turkish.