Manifold Garden
Manifold Garden is a game that reimagines physics and space. Explore a world of beautiful Escher-esque architecture where the laws of physics are different. Geometry repeats infinitely in every direction and…
Manifold Garden is an adventure developed by William Chyr Studio, released 18 October 2019 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Manifold Garden is
Manifold Garden is an adventure game developed by William Chyr Studio and released in 2019. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Manifold Garden is a puzzle video game developed by American artist William Chyr. It was released on Windows, macOS, and iOS on October 18, 2019. The player must navigate an abstract series of structures that appear to repeat into infinity, while solving a progression of puzzles. Ports for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One were released on August 18, 2020. An upgraded version of the game was released for Xbox Series X and Series S as a launch title on November 10, 2020, and an upgraded PlayStation 5 version released on May 20, 2021.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 25 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Manifold Garden holds a critic score of 86 out of 100. That places it above 86% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 9 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-750, 2.66 GHz, 2 GB RAM and Nvidia 460. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Manifold Garden launched on 18 October 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium and Persona 5 Royal. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding, The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium, Persona 5 Royal.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Manifold Garden yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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