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2021 · Fantasy · Action RPG · Exploration

How long isGarden Story?

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14 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 6.5 hours and 24 hours

A brick wall partway in: one story step stops 55 in 100 of the players who launched it.

Does Garden Story hold up?

Grows on people

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87% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 96% at 20–50 hours played.

Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.

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Do the first two hours of Garden Story tell you?

In the first two hours55%recommend it

After that93%recommend it

12 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 8 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 14 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6.5 hours and 24 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,750 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 87% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 96% at 20–50 hours.

9% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 55% of those recommend it. After the window, 93% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 61% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 4.5 hours in.

When would you get there?

14days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 14 hours on Tuesday, November 3.

Half of its reviewers had played between 6.5 and 24 hours: Oct 27 to Nov 13 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Garden Story?

The filter

By The Book

55 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Spring Awakening and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Spring AwakeningWake up in Spring Hamlet.−1189% hold it
  3. By The BookDefeat the Bookworm once.Filtered −5534% hold it
  4. Beach-BoundReach the Summer Bar−133% hold it
  5. Summer SaviorDefeat the Octopihi once.−726% hold it
  6. Arid ArrivalTake the Lift to Autumn Town−323% hold it
  7. Dungeon DelverDefeat the Rotberg once.−122% hold it
  8. Snowy Stop-OverArrive in Winter Glade.−220% hold it
  9. Melody MakerObtain the Flute.−119% hold it
  10. House of the SunObtain the Silversword19% hold it
  11. A Restful SlumberVanquish the Grove's Clutch.−316% hold it
How this is counted

89% of the players who launched Garden Story hold Spring Awakening, its first story achievement on Steam, and 16% hold A Restful Slumber, its last. The steepest drop comes between Spring Awakening (89%) and By The Book (34%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is Garden Story worth it?

Is Garden Story worth it? Yes.

  • Fair price

    About what a typical RPG charges: $1.43 an hour

  • Loved

    93% recommend it after the refund windowmost RPGs: 88%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 14 hours come to $1.43 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 93% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of Garden Story costs about what the typical one of 1061 RPGs here charges $1.54.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (RPGs) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like Garden Story?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Garden Story, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Garden Story would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

What did people here do with Garden Story?

  • 1 in 3,480

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

Games like Garden Story

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How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.