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Dream Garden

Dream Garden

Released: 11/3/2025

Relax and immerse yourself in Dream Garden, a cozy simulation game about building perfect Japanese zen garden dioramas with lily-speckled ponds, trees, bridges, and more. Just sit back, de-stress and build to your heart’s content. Choose from a range of trees, bushes, stones, flowers to more to turn your garden into a lush natural paradise. Arrange each item individually or paint them into the landscape using the brush tool. Change the landscape to your tastes: raise hills, dig ponds, channel rivers, and fill your garden with sand, grass or pebbles. Use man-made decorations like lamps and bridges to tie everything together. Use the rake tool to trace stunning patterns into the sand and pebbles, just like a real life Japanese zen garden. Combine tactility, meditation and art into a delightful creative experience. Use detailed customization to change the seasons, the time of day, the weather, and more. Adjust the level of precipitation and discover the beauty of ‘intermediate’ seasons – transporting your garden to early autumn mornings or late winter snowfall. We created Dream Garden in the hopes of offering a refuge from the stress of day to day life. Immerse yourself in the tranquil atmosphere of the garden and create to your heart’s content. Features: Craft delightful garden dioramas Shape the landscape with hills, rivers, ponds, and pebbles Add decorations both natural and manmade Arrange items individually or paint them in with the brush tool Trace zen sand patterns with the rake A tranquil, meditative atmosphere Build without limits, timers or stress

Relax and immerse yourself in Dream Garden, a cozy simulation game about building perfect Japanese zen garden dioramas with lily-speckled ponds, trees, bridges, and more. Just sit back, de-stress and build to your heart’s content. Choose from a range of trees, bushes, stones, flowers to more to turn your garden into a lush natural paradise. Arrange each item individually or paint them into the landscape using the brush tool. Change the landscape to your tastes: raise hills, dig ponds, channel rivers, and fill your garden with sand, grass or pebbles. Use man-made decorations like lamps and bridges to tie everything together. Use the rake tool to trace stunning patterns into the sand and pebbles, just like a real life Japanese zen garden. Combine tactility, meditation and art into a delightful creative experience. Use detailed customization to change the seasons, the time of day, the weather, and more. Adjust the level of precipitation and discover the beauty of ‘intermediate’ seasons – transporting your garden to early autumn mornings or late winter snowfall. We created Dream Garden in the hopes of offering a refuge from the stress of day to day life. Immerse yourself in the tranquil atmosphere of the garden and create to your heart’s content. Features: Craft delightful garden dioramas Shape the landscape with hills, rivers, ponds, and pebbles Add decorations both natural and manmade Arrange items individually or paint them in with the brush tool Trace zen sand patterns with the rake A tranquil, meditative atmosphere Build without limits, timers or stress

Relax and immerse yourself in Dream Garden, a cozy simulation game about building perfect Japanese zen garden dioramas with lily-speckled ponds, trees, bridges, and more. Just sit back, de-stress and build to your heart’s content. Choose from a range of trees, bushes, stones, flowers to more to turn your garden into a lush natural paradise. Arrange each item individually or paint them into the landscape using the brush tool. Change the landscape to your tastes: raise hills, dig ponds, channel rivers, and fill your garden with sand, grass or pebbles. Use man-made decorations like lamps and bridges to tie everything together. Use the rake tool to trace stunning patterns into the sand and pebbles, just like a real life Japanese zen garden. Combine tactility, meditation and art into a delightful creative experience. Use detailed customization to change the seasons, the time of day, the weather, and more. Adjust the level of precipitation and discover the beauty of ‘intermediate’ seasons – transporting your garden to early autumn mornings or late winter snowfall. We created Dream Garden in the hopes of offering a refuge from the stress of day to day life. Immerse yourself in the tranquil atmosphere of the garden and create to your heart’s content. Features: Craft delightful garden dioramas Shape the landscape with hills, rivers, ponds, and pebbles Add decorations both natural and manmade Arrange items individually or paint them in with the brush tool Trace zen sand patterns with the rake A tranquil, meditative atmosphere Build without limits, timers or stress

Critics
82
Steam
87

Score Breakdown

82.0

Critic Average

5 reviews

87

Steam User Score

70 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-5.1
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
-5.1

Average of both sources

Review Timing

1 early (20%)4 launch window (80%)0 late (0%)