Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $8.74.
- Length
- 21.3h
- Value
- $0.41/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 65% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 65% ($8.74)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R9 280X, 3 GB. Windows only.
Garden Life is a relaxing gardening game in which you create your dream garden in a peaceful, colourful world. Plant and add ornaments at your own pace, transforming an overgrown forgotten plot into a flourishing community garden.
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
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 21 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $8.74 at 65 percent off still sits 17 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 41 at list, 45 today.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Tiny Glade ($11.99, scores 82) and Lemon Cake ($14.99, scores 64) both outscore it.
12 of the 486 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 635 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
80% start to 3% 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
26 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 06:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I haven't played this game for many hours but it is really enjoyable and cosy. Definitely recommend!
I do recommend the game, cozy but is about farming flowers, is not a garden nursery thing is more like a florist shop, for sure is frustrating that seeds are hard to get for some people because is random so please if you need one specific seed do plant more of it you would get it, I did not use all the garden because the game limited it but at the end you can have only the ones that you love the most. So have fun!
It's alright. Not the best game i've ever played but not the worst. I can't put my finger on what it is exactly but it missing something.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1915380/garden-life-a-cozy-simulatorReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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