“Where is it?!” I holler, rooting by game tags trying to find any point out of Garden Story on RPS. “It must be here somewhere!” Alas, it isn’t. So I shall break the ice. Garden Story, presently in improvement, will probably be one of many present crop of very candy town-sim sort games following within the wake that Stardew Valley has cleared on PC. It’s being proven off at PAX East however you’ll be able to load up a free demo from house all weekend.
You’re a grape named Concord, the brand new village guardian right here to assist your neighbors, do some gardening, and revitalise the island. Everyone else additionally seems to both be produce or a frog. There’s a mysterious rot that’s introduced low the little Autumn Town and Concord’s obtained to prune it again.
I popped the demo in for a fast snack and located simply what I used to be in search of off the bat. There’s cute pixel-style little fruit individuals with gurgle-y textual content results on their dialogue. The soundtrack’s filled with little pan flutes, acoustic guitars, and that instrument I can by no means put a finger on like an accordion however extra…pastoral? Maybe it’s simply an accordion.
Anyhoo, the primary jiffy of the demo have me as Concord taking a raise as much as the subsequent city over that’s been overrun with rot. My frog pal Rana and I are off to slap some rot slimes within the sewers. Later on, there’s promise that I’ll spend time amassing books in a library for Fuji (an apple, after all) and planting little backyard plots like those close to a pal whose title is a few bastardization of “Broccoli” that I can’t reproduce from reminiscence.
It’s a bit extra whacking issues with a stick (rot slimes and rocky useful resource nodes) than I had anticipated proper off the cuff nevertheless it’s loads cute in any case. You can attempt the demo out your self at no cost over on Steam this weekend whereas it’s on present at PAX East.
Garden Story is deliberate for launch someday within the spring this yr, however doesn’t seem to have a selected date chosen simply but.
