Garden Simulator Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · Published May 15, 2023 · Updated May 15, 2023

For this Garden Simulator Review, where we finally get our own allotment, place deco elements and cultivate plants to harvest and sell them. Get ready for a beautiful time in nature. Always remember: A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul.

Garden Simulator Review Pros:

Nice graphics
2.84GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
Field of view slider.
Create your own garden gameplay.
3 save slots.
Tasks are given to you via the mailbox, always optional but they give rewards.
Earn cash and exp from completing tasks and work like cutting the grass, recycling, etc.
A dumpster is where you throw rubbish.
She’d let you hang up your tools.
Storage area for items like seeds etc.
The shop is a laptop and you use coins to buy items, each locked item shows the unlock criteria.
Items bought will get delivered in crates.
You have a cat that you can indeed pet.
The handy hot bar for fast swapping of tools.
Play how you want.
Cutting the grass brings up a bar and once full it creates a bag of grass cuttings to dump.
You work until 6 pm then you turn in for the day.
Earn EXP and level up to get skill points to increase aspects of yourself like exp gained, watering efficiency, etc.
Controls are quick to learn as you see button icons.
Watering plants will show a bar as to how well-watered they are.
Handy pop-up text over plants etc saying the quality of them, when planted, and how long until you can harvest them.
The Hud shows how many bits of rubbish and weeds you have.

Garden Simulator Review Cons:

Cannot rebind controls.
You hear the delivery guy but the deliveries just get chucked into the garden.
The music is not good.
Clipping and being able to mow up walls and the like happen a lot.
Having to hold the button down to do anything is just slow and unneeded.
The physics goes crazy like throwing a piece of wood can heave it bouncing off buildings and flying around.
Very basic cold-looking menu system.
You can land up with a lot of downtimes and not a lot to do except advance time.
The tutorials are nonexistent and you have to work it out for yourself most of the time.
You need to be so precise with everything from placing tools on the shelf/hooks to plants and bushes but the game doesn’t use a lock-on system or anything so it’s never perfect.
Such a slow pace to it all.
Not a lot to do early game.