The Garden Path is a cozy, pensive taste of the simple life

Whether you're fishing, growing, trading or just hanging with new friends, a wonderful and wistful adventure awaits when wandering The Garden Path.

As the new gardener of this forgotten place, you have a chance to bring life back to a garden that once thrived with love and colour. The Garden Path explores the quiet moments of a life well lived, where your garden will grow to reflect both the passing of time (which runs in concert with the real world) and your own design. Curate, craft, and grow the garden, go fishing for a big catch, make copious amounts of tea, and hang out with your new vegetable and animal-headed friends. Built to be played as and when you wish, the garden will present new encounters, stories to weave, and distractions each time you play. Of course, you may also like to check back in to see how your flowers have grown!

With a stunning, hand-drawn storybook aesthetic and beautiful day and night original soundtracks, The Garden Path will welcome you with its warmth, tranquility, and low-pressure gameplay. Played at your own pace, the garden is a tender world of familiar sights and sounds, melody, and friendly faces. A safe place to call your own, to curate, and to reflect. A home away from home.

Solo developer carrotcake and publisher Mooncat Games are overjoyed to announce that after 7 years of development, The Garden Path will release on Steam, Itch.io, and Nintendo Switch on July 30th.

Key Features

• Designed with short play sessions in mind; enjoy 10-30 minutes of daily errands, visitors, and more to explore, with real-time progression even when you’re away.
• Cultivate plants, whistle to charm song-fish, design your home, and help your new friends — play your way, and focus on what you enjoy.
• Meet an endearing troupe of travellers who will come and go, and a playful cast of vegetable-headed residents each with their own stories to tell.
• Piece together a whimsical history as you discover the secrets of the Garden.
• Lush illustrated visuals and a twinkling day/night soundtrack to complete your stay.
• Invite another to join you in local co-op mode and nurture your garden together.

Take a stroll down The Garden Path when it launches on Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam) on July 30, 2024.