The Gardens Between is an adventure developed by The Voxel Agents, released 20 September 2018 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The main story takes about 3.6 hrs to finish.
What The Gardens Between is
The Gardens Between is an adventure game developed by The Voxel Agents and released in 2018. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, Google Stadia, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Arina and Frendt are two childhood friends who live next door to one another and share a treehouse built on a small garden square between their homes. On a rainy night, the pair sneak away to their hideout, and a glowing sphere of light appears before them, sweeping the treehouse into a vast, dreamlike ocean scattered with small islands. Each island is a garden that represents a cherished moment from their friendship, from the day one of them first moved in to the afternoon they built the treehouse together. Wordlessly, the two make their way through these surreal gardens, carrying a lantern and coaxing light toward glowing portals at the summit of each one. Rather than a straightforward…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 17 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Gardens Between holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 12 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 103 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3.6 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz, 4 GB RAM and Intel HD 4000 Series. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. 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
The Gardens Between launched on 20 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Gardens Between yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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