The Game Census
The Good Time Garden cover art

The Good Time Garden

Coal Supper · 2019-12-19

Steam

IndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

The Good Time Garden is a 2019 Indie, Free To Play game priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and Overwhelmingly Positive (96% of 2907 reviews).

3
playing now
96%
positive of 2.9k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
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)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 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 5% of 49,684 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

502026-09-15 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Where its players are

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

Player tags

2DCuteIndieShortCasualNuditySurrealExperienceHand-drawnAtmospheric

Census log

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

Players also track

Don't Knock TwiceHouse of CaravanMasochisiaRusty Lake HotelQuern - Undying ThoughtsRusty Lake: RootsInflictionDream Alone

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗