The Space Garden tasks you with cultivating plants across procedurally-themed planets, harvesting fruit either through direct clicking or delegating to automated helpers. The core loop centers on growing increasingly valuable plants and managing your workforce to generate passive income, though the lack of offline progression limits play between sessions. It appeals to idle game fans who enjoy incremental growth mechanics paired with a lighthearted aesthetic, though the sparse tutorial and unclear planet effects may require some experimentation.
About this game
In "The Space Garden" you can build your own garden across the Universe! Discover, acquire and grow your plants with love as you watch them evolve. Collect fruits by yourself or request help from your "helpers", a race of mini friends who come from nature.
What players are saying
▼ Not recommended2 hrs
First of all: This game could be fun. It definitely has the potential. Unlike other people I've had no problem with loading a saved game, but that might be due to the limited number of planets in it. But there's still some things I found that just ruin the fun.
- There is no offline progression. Arguably a design choice. It would still be nice if you'd even get a little amount, even if it's capped like in Plantera. - The most critical thing for a clicker/idle game: Once the window loses focus, the game stops completely. That point alone makes me not want to play it - If you leave the game running and just go away and do something else, your helpers will die rather soon. And while you can revive them manually, it won't happen automatically. So when you get back you'll get the income of a few minutes and need to start over with your helpers.
I could overlook the odds in the building system (which looks suspiciously like Plantera), fuzzy controls and the other annoying things, but unless it can run in the background I'll only turn it on until I get the remaining cards and then move on to the next game.
Cookie Clicker-esque. It's not hard on the computer but neither is it entirely gripping, at least for me. Graphics are somewhat decent, though I spent most of my time too zoomed out to really appreciate all the details. Some of the planet effects were unclear to me at first and it took a bit of trial and error to play. The one thing that was really the dealbreaker for me was the achievements. Once you hit level 26, you've pretty much done all but one achievement, and that means waiting until you reach level 40-something - something I really didn't want to spend even more time on seeing as the game is only active if it's the window at the forefront. Exp scaling past level 30 is abysmally slow and that's what really turned me off the game. Nice try though!
Not bad for a game by a single person. It's pretty solid mechanics wise. Very simple which is good as it doesn't explain anything in the game except in pictures like helper + apple = money. Everything has little i's on them so you can click that for simplistic help. It's actually fairly enjoyable. Very much a cookie clicker/clicker heroes meats gardens in space. Plant plants, get fruit, fruit gives coins, coins by better plants. Rinse and repeat basically. At first it doesn't seem obvious how to expand from your 1st planet to another. You get a skill/buy option at lvl 9 I think it was. Every level up if you unlock something it will show a card version of it on screen for you. You get an unlock about every 2 levels until lvl 20. After that it seems to space out more and more. achievements are easy to get. I would say the pacing of the game is a little off but otherwise it's pretty good. If you want a casual time waster like cookie clicker/clicker heroes then this is perfect. The hardest thing you will do is try to manage to click all the fruit once you get more than one planet. Also the graphics are quite pretty. Really nicely done.
BUGFIXES, IMPROVEMENTS and NEW STUFF. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26474410/757ada7eb4f7af1b13ce0707e59a5ed1bdb9e379.png 1- Improved the save system to avoid data lost on every game update. 2 - Added at least 3 save slots to play multiple games with the same copy of The Space Garden. 3 - Changed the placement mode of trees and plants. 4 - Multiple planets sizes (From very small to extra large!!). 5 - Bug on zooming planets fixed. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26474410/a8a0f8f8b1f7c94974000b0e43efe73e1403b905.png 6 - Added STEAM TRADING CARDS, chromes and badges. 7 - Helpers can grown from babies to oldmans. 8 - Improved Universe navigation controls 9-Fixed and changed attack behaviour of the captus, also the animation. 10 - Some planets now have biomes (extra buffs or FX on fruits/trees/helpers) http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26474410/9ce2c5018501488fdd4413c03e1f9ed2c0229f8b.png 11 - Music sudently stop to loop (bugfix) 12 - Added new trees 13 - Added new plants 14 - Added new helpers 15 - Added minimap (you can use it reaching certain level in game) http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26474410/8b88b1d10026c68284e04f146697b048b9dcb84c.png 16 - Helpers can be revived for free (touch the tomb stone). 17 - Keyshortcut for minimap (m) and inventory (z). 18 - Added a special end game when reach max game level. 19 - Fixed bugs with zombie helpers. 20 - Added satellites (new mechanics will be added on next updates) 21 - Improved graphics and general gameplay. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26474410/05a5624901ba47366bb3837eb1f5bf4f837af240.png
BUGFIXES, IMPROVEMENTS and NEW STUFF. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26474410/757ada7eb4f7af1b13ce0707e59a5ed1bdb9e379.png 1- Improved the save system to avoid data lost on every game update. 2 - Added at least 3 save slots to play multiple games with the same copy of The Space Garden. 3 - Changed the placement mode of trees and plants. 4 - Multiple planets sizes (From very small to extra large!!). 5 - Bug on zooming planets fixed. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26474410/a8a0f8f8b1f7c94974000b0e43efe73e1403b905.png 6 - Added STEAM TRADING CARDS, chromes and badges. 7 - Helpers can grown from babies to oldmans. 8 - Improved Universe navigation controls 9-Fixed and changed attack behaviour of the captus, also the animation. 10 - Some planets now have biomes (extra buffs or FX on fruits/trees/helpers) http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26474410/9ce2c5018501488fdd4413c03e1f9ed2c0229f8b.png 11 - Music sudently stop to loop (bugfix) 12 - Added new trees 13 - Added new plants 14 - Added new helpers 15 - Added minimap (you can use it reaching certain level in game) http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26474410/8b88b1d10026c68284e04f146697b048b9dcb84c.png 16 - Helpers can be revived for free (touch the tomb stone). 17 - Keyshortcut for minimap (m) and inventory (z). 18 - Added a special end game when reach max game level. 19 - Fixed bugs with zombie helpers. 20 - Added satellites (new mechanics will be added on next updates) 21 - Improved graphics and general gameplay. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/26474410/05a5624901ba47366bb3837eb1f5bf4f837af240.png
