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Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator

A gardening simulator with freeform planting and community requests

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

CasualSimulation

Reviews
Mostly Positive
77% of 971
Recent reviews
Mixed
66% of 21 in 30 days
Players
27
daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update on Steam
1 year ago
Feb 11, 2025
Minimum PC
GeForce GTX 760
8 GB RAM
Full requirements

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

77% of 971 reviews are positive · 66% of 21 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.

Players over time

▼ -6% vs a month ago

Players online on Steam, one sample a day.

Highest since Sep 2026: 32 players on Oct 4, 2026.

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How many players finish Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator?

5.6% of Steam players have unlocked «A Promise Fulfilled», the achievement for finishing the main story.

Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.

Screenshots and trailer

Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator screenshot 1

Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator system requirements

Minimum: GeForce GTX 760, 8 GB RAM.

As published by the developer.

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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.

Recommended

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.

Does Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Does Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator run on Steam Deck?

Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.

  • 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

PC version details

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Full controller support
Platforms
Windows
Achievements
37
Steam features
Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Turkish.

Does Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator use AI-generated content?

No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.

Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam

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Recent updates

2 DLC available.

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