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Garden Galaxy

Anneka Tran · 2022-12-14

Steam

CasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Dec 14, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Discover, collect and organise to create your own unique garden in this relaxing idle / creative sandbox!

Garden Galaxy is a 2022 Casual, Indie and Free To Play title priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (98% of 2664 reviews).

18
playing now
98%
positive of 2.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
Nexus mods (88 downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

18 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 18 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 121 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~15/week).
  • · Review velocity down 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 4% of 28,977 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 53k–120k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,664 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2025-02-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
27427420222026Week of 2022-12-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 274 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4182026-09-15 02:00 — 24 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 16 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 23 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 23 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 14 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 23 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 19 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 15 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 19 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 8 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 16 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 21 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 14 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 22 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 36 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 25 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 25 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 41 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 25 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 16 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 35 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 18 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 19 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 18 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
24318Dec 2022Aug 2026Dec 2022 — avg 180 · peak 383Feb 2023 — avg 72 · peak 117Apr 2023 — avg 76 · peak 138Jun 2023 — avg 46 · peak 193Aug 2023 — avg 50 · peak 94Oct 2023 — avg 76 · peak 187Dec 2023 — avg 106 · peak 218Feb 2024 — avg 67 · peak 116Apr 2024 — avg 66 · peak 168Jun 2024 — avg 65 · peak 144Aug 2024 — avg 62 · peak 145Oct 2024 — avg 31 · peak 56Dec 2024 — avg 51 · peak 112Feb 2025 — avg 243 · peak 780Apr 2025 — avg 39 · peak 71Jun 2025 — avg 33 · peak 82Aug 2025 — avg 39 · peak 83Oct 2025 — avg 32 · peak 68Dec 2025 — avg 31 · peak 64Feb 2026 — avg 21 · peak 37Apr 2026 — avg 18 · peak 34Jun 2026 — avg 22 · peak 45Aug 2026 — avg 26 · peak 54
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$4.992022-12-142026-08-102022-12-14 — best price $9.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-10-23 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-01-22 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-04-29 — best price $9.992024-06-17 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-08-22 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-02-10 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-08-14 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-05-11 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-08-10 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
98.9%
earned "First Coin"
42.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,52419%29

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CozyCuteIdlerIndieCasualNatureSandboxBuildingGamblingRelaxing

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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