#Garden story update full#

Many shades of grey, but I don’t want to dip into spoilers so I’ll leave that for you to discover as you play through.Īs Concord progresses from one town/season to the next, there are new “weapon gets” and upgrades that can be earned by doing favors and daily quests. The antagonist in the game, The Rot, is nuanced. Guardian Concord moves from one town area to the next as the story progresses, meeting new characters, working on new storyline elements including restoring that particular area of The Grove. The way it unfolds in steps makes the game rather relaxing while still having purpose, hitting the sweet spot for a good many players. The story unwinds in chapters that correspond to seasons and new sections of The Grove, each building upon the other, culminating in the overarching theme of saving the entirety of The Grove. However, The Grove has other plans for you and you soon find yourself as a newly appointed Guardian with the task of rebuilding the community.

#Garden story update full#

Punny, right? This game is full of fun names like that! You start out in a little isolated corner of The Grove as a gardening grape tending to the Kindergarten Vine. This game is not so little despite its Greenling grape protagonist, Concord. Wonderful callback to the old Day of the Tentacle PC game!

The maps, dungeon puzzles, and combat are similar to old-school 2D Zelda games. Fishing, farming, community building, crafting (in the form of tools built at the architects’ workbenches), and NPC favors are reminiscent of Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. Garden Story is a top-down community building action RPG, and like many other games, it shares elements with games that came before it. There you were, minding your business gardening and now you’re growing up way too quickly while saving the world–or in this case, The Grove. Sometimes life throws something new at you.