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The Good Time Garden

Coal Supper · 2019-12-19

Steam

IndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 19, 2019 (Linux), Oct 19, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 19, 2019 (Mac)

Explore a throbbing pink world full of strange naked creatures to gather food for your friend in this short, surreal experience.

0
playing now
96%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
63/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
0.4h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-29 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 119 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~15/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
21321320192026Week of 2019-12-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 213 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 13 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-08-11 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DCuteIndieShortCasualNuditySurrealExperienceHand-drawnAtmospheric

Census log

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

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