Garden Simulator Review (PlayStation 5)
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.
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Garden Simulator:
Developer: PRODUKTIVKELLER Studios
Publisher: SunDust Games
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- Graphics - 8/108/10
- Sound - 7/107/10
- Accessibility - 7/107/10
- Length - 8/108/10
- Fun Factor - 8/108/10
Summary
We have had a lot of simulator games over the years and I’m sure I have played a garden one before but here we go with another. Initially, it doesn’t look that engaging with cold boring menus and a really slow pace to it all. The problem is and it’s a good one, The game opens up and opens up in such a way that you put the game on and lose all sense of time. The unlocks are indeed slow and especially at the start it takes days in the game to get the loop revved up but honestly, it’s so satisfying to play and even mundane tasks of cutting the grass and watering plants are fun. Buying new tools, seeds, and items is funny as you hear a delivery driver pull up and throw crates over the fence and you then have to open them. Once you get a few parts of the garden unlocked you can then start on your grand design, It is relatively straightforward in order to first unlock parts and then in placing them. Had a few issues where I don’t like the fact that parts don’t click together which makes precision a bit of a bitch, you can get around it but it is a strange choice. Other than a few niggles I found Garden simulator to be a real zen experience and as someone with a concrete jungle it was fun messing around with Mother Nature.(Hang in that sounds a bit weird, Oh well)
