Garden of the Sea (VR)
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.04.
- Length
- 4.4h 8.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 686 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.04 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
You wake up on a small island in a magical world. Grow your garden, nurture local creatures, furnish your home or adventure across the seas to explore more islands and gather new resources. This world is for you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 970/1060 or Radeon RX 480, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 39 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $6.04 BANGER line 6 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tiny Glade ($14.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
More about Garden of the Sea (VR)
1 of the 323 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 223 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
4.4 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
57% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 16:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
What a lovely farming sim that's so well designed for VR! There is so much to do: cropping food, collecting materials, sailing, exploring different islands, and taking care of adorable creatures. More often than not I would feel a sense of wonder after doing something. Getting all achievements was super satisfying too. Overall, a wonderful cozy VR experience I highly recommend.
2 more reviews
Garden of the Sea is one of the cutest VR games I've played. The world is charming, relaxing, and full of cozy little activities that made it hard to put down. I loved spending time in it, even though VR usually gives me really bad motion sickness. The fact that I kept playing despite feeling motion sick is probably the biggest compliment I can give this game. If you're looking for a cozy VR experience, this one is...
The quest line could do with a little more direction, but you'll eventually figure it out by exploring and listening for the jingle sound. Its a fun game but i wish there was just a little more to it. The game hasn't been updated in a while and i think the developers don't plan to update.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Garden of the Sea (VR) scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1086850/garden-of-the-sea-vrReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.