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Garten of Banban cover art

Garten of Banban

Euphoric Brothers · 2023-01-06

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 20, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), May 30, 2024 (PlayStation 4), May 30, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Jan 06, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 26, 2023 (Android), Mar 14, 2023 (iOS)

Enter Banban's Kindergarten, and you're sure to make some friends. Explore the mysterious establishment and don't lose your life and sanity. Uncover the horrifying truth behind the place, but be careful, as you are far from alone…

42
playing now
54%
positive of 13k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
36/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
1h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 1h
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

42 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Garten of Banban is set in Banban's Kindergarten. The Kindergarten was closed due to recent cases of children going missing in the kindergarten. In the game, the Player, who is presumably a parent who after getting tired that nobody can find their missing child, decided, to go into the Kindergarten and find their child and other missing children themself. But they slowly start to discover the horrifying secrets of the Kindergarten.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 42 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,471 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~184/week).
  • · Review velocity up 65% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 9% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.1k1.1k20232026Week of 2023-01-01: 989 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,094 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 459 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 461 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 675 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 619 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 361 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 289 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 575 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 409 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 304 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 301 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 273 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 349 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 395 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 169 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 136 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 458 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 193 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 140 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 180 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 195 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 194 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 114 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 97 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 170 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 129 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 121 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 102 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 95 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 122 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 49 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 412 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 176 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 66 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

162352026-08-07 00:00 — 87 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 101 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 140 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 123 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 106 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 157 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 117 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 119 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 153 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 95 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 96 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 152 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 73 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 91 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 122 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 61 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 69 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 117 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 69 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 67 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 80 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 69 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 39 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 69 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 59 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 37 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 52 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 63 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 42 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Twitch viewers

402026-08-26 19:15 — 2 viewers2026-08-26 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-26 20:34 — 4 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
5.7%
earned "First Steps"
3.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

29 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)97550%7
PS4 (PlayStation)27151%7
Steam (Steam)20354%14
Switch (Nintendo)360%0

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

3DDarkActionHorrorPuzzleMysterySurrealCartoonyLore-RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

Recent updates

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