The Garden Path
A slice-of-life sim about the joy of gardening, designed to be picked up and played in short and sweet bites. Whether you’re fishing, growing, trading, or making new vegetable friends, a wonderful and wistful…
The Garden Path is an adventure developed by carrotcake.studio, released 30 July 2024 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Garden Path is
The Garden Path is an adventure game developed by carrotcake.studio and released in 2024. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Godot.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A slice-of-life sim about the joy of gardening, designed to be picked up and played in short and sweet bites. Whether you’re fishing, growing, trading, or making new vegetable friends, a wonderful and wistful adventure awaits when wandering The Garden Path.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are open world and sandbox. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
The Garden Path holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Garden Path launched on 30 July 2024, within three weeks of Black Myth: Wukong, Nobody Wants to Die, Thank Goodness You're Here! and Once Human. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 7 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Black Myth: Wukong, Nobody Wants to Die, Thank Goodness You're Here!, Once Human.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Garden Path yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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