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Tiny Garden now has a Steam demo in which you can grow plants and customise your Polly PocketOr generic brand Polly Pocket equivalent
Or generic brand Polly Pocket equivalent
Image credit:Ao Norte
Image credit:Ao Norte
Tiny Gardenis a puzzle game about planting flowers and crops you can then sell to buy seeds for new types of flowers and crops. That would be charming enough on its own, but your agricultural endeavours are set inside a Polly Pocket-style toy, with crops also able to be exchanged for furniture with which to decorate your diorama home. After blowing past its Kickstarter target, there’s now a playable demo.
It’s only 20-minutes or so long, more of a “proof-of-concept” than a full demo, say the developers, with many unfinished features. It’ll also only be available for the remainder of the Kickstarter pledge drive, which comes to an end on August 2nd.
Tiny Garden - Kickstarter TrailerTiny Garden’s Kickstarter trailer.Watch on YouTube
Tiny Garden - Kickstarter Trailer
That said, I’ve just played it and I had fun. Plopping down plants to modify adjacent tiles, to irrigate soil or grow grass, and thus create platforms for planting new types of seeds, is a satisfying challenge. It reminds me ofConcrete Jungle, which used a similar system as the underpinnings of a citybuilder.
Matt beat me to covering Tiny Garden whenit launched on Kickstarterearlier this month, but officially I’m writing about it again now because it’s got a playable demo. Unofficially I’m writing about it so that I can say: a Polly Pocket mansion with a secret room behind a bookcase is infinitely cooler than a Mighty Max skull dungeon.
