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Garden of the Sea (VR) cover art

Garden of the Sea (VR)

Neat Corporation · 2022-01-13

SteamPlayStation Store

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Jan 13, 2022 (Meta Quest 2), Jun 10, 2019 (SteamVR), Oct 24, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 22, 2023 (PlayStation VR2)

You wake up on a small island in a magical world. Grow your garden, nurture local creatures, furnish your home or adventure across the seas to explore more islands and gather new resources. This world is for you.

93%
positive of 686 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
4.35★
PlayStation Store rating (252 ratings)
7h
to beat · completionist 8h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 28% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (75 reviews).
  • · Top 10% of 29,131 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–31k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 686 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Steam (2019-10-16) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 13 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
737320192026Week of 2019-06-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$2.992019-06-102026-10-082019-06-10 — best price $5.992019-10-28 — best price $2.992019-12-03 — best price $5.992020-02-07 — best price $5.992020-08-10 — best price $11.992020-09-10 — best price $11.992020-11-25 — best price $5.992020-12-22 — best price $5.992021-02-15 — best price $11.992021-07-23 — best price $5.992021-12-02 — best price $24.992022-06-23 — best price $12.492022-09-26 — best price $24.992022-12-22 — best price $12.492023-01-30 — best price $24.992023-04-17 — best price $12.492023-06-15 — best price $24.992023-07-31 — best price $12.492023-12-11 — best price $24.992024-03-14 — best price $12.492024-07-11 — best price $24.992024-10-03 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $9.992025-09-23 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $6.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-05-13 — best price $9.992026-07-12 — best price $6.992026-09-21 — best price $9.992026-10-08 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
56.8%
earned "Baby Steps"
14.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam CloudFamily Sharing

19 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)75413%10

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

Player tags

VRCozyCuteIndieCasualFarmingSandboxCraftingRelaxingSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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