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Garden Tale

Bonion Games · PLAYISM · 2017-09-13

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Sep 13, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Garden Tale is a 2.5D simulation RPG with a focus on strategy. Use the Bonion, cute but explosive plants to make a chain reaction to win!

Garden Tale is an Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game released in 2017, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 16 reviews).

0
playing now
56%
positive of 16 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-13 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 84% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2020-10-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220172026Week of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.992017-09-132026-08-062017-09-13 — best price $8.992017-11-22 — best price $6.992018-02-15 — best price $6.992018-06-22 — best price $6.992018-09-19 — best price $6.992018-12-20 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $4.992019-04-29 — best price $3.992019-06-26 — best price $3.992019-10-14 — best price $2.992019-11-10 — best price $2.992019-12-19 — best price $2.992020-06-25 — best price $2.992020-10-29 — best price $1.992020-11-25 — best price $1.992021-03-01 — best price $1.992021-05-15 — best price $1.992021-06-24 — best price $1.992021-10-28 — best price $1.992022-01-27 — best price $1.992022-06-23 — best price $1.992022-11-22 — best price $1.992022-12-22 — best price $1.992023-05-20 — best price $1.992023-12-22 — best price $1.992024-03-14 — best price $1.992024-06-27 — best price $1.992024-09-18 — best price $1.992024-12-06 — best price $1.992025-01-22 — best price $1.992025-04-13 — best price $1.992025-06-27 — best price $1.992025-09-15 — best price $1.992026-01-17 — best price $2.492026-05-10 — best price $1.992026-07-23 — best price $1.992026-08-06 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Player tags

3DRPGCuteJRPGPuzzleSurrealStrategyIsometricTurn-BasedStrategy RPG

Census log

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

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