The Gardens Between Reviews
The Gardens Between is a well-needed bite of escapism, both for the two protagonists as for the player. With cute and, more importantly, uniquely clever diorama set pieces, this tiny adventure that spans just a few hours feels as innovative as it is refreshing and heartfelt.
The game design and narrative blend harmoniously, while sustained with a full-fledged soundtrack and colorful world, The Garden's Between stands out thanks to its ingenious puzzles and a simple approach on telling a small adventure full of details.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
If you love indie adventure and puzzle games and more importantly looking for an impressive experience that could remind you of your childhood memories you should definitely play The Gardens Between. this game is a magnificent experience and will bring you one of the best two hours of your life.
Review in Persian | Read full review
The Gardens Between is a charming, engaging, and inventive puzzler with the potential to really draw you into its world of bittersweet nostalgia. While the puzzles may lack some teeth for the brain game veteran, there's plenty of fun to be had here.
In The Gardens Between, a new puzzle and adventure game from The Voxel Agents, the central idea is to manipulate time. It is a puzzle game with relatively simple mechanics: you move back and forth in time, following two friends while carrying a flashlight to the top of a small island. Read our review.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
The Voxel Agents have managed to knit a clever game concept around time manipulation with only one key plus analog stick and completely without text, which not only becomes a bit more complex from level to level, but also hardly repeats itself. If you don't mind the short playing time, The Gardens Between is a wonderfully playful and pretty puzzle adventure that's perfect for in between.
Review in German | Read full review
A bittersweet tale of friendship that is masterfully presented through carefully designed puzzles revolving around time manipulation.
Final Thoughts The Voxel Agents have created a nice, simple and truly charming puzzler. Its price tag might be a bit heavy for the given play time, but you shouldn't let that keep you from diving into this game since it'll be totally worth playing as it's a great relaxing puzzler.
The Gardens Between is a beautiful and charming game that is as clever as it is touching.
The Gardens Between is a short and sweet puzzle game where you control the flow of time.
A unique and charming puzzle game which doesn't outstay its welcome.
Beautifully designed and painfully creative, The Gardens Between is an absolute delight. It's a shame that the lack of levels and short runtime prevent it from reaching true classic status.
Relaxing as it is taxing, The Gardens Between offers a poignant coalescence of charming visuals, a relaxing soundtrack and a bittersweet story.
The Gardens Between is an excellent example of a creative puzzle game, where beautiful graphics, pleasant music and original mechanics with time manipulation create a perfect symbiosis.
Review in Russian | Read full review
With only three buttons, this time-bending story is an impeccably crafted minimalist model of video game and puzzle design
A beautiful, relaxing puzzler that demands little more than your attention.
There's an elusive elegance to The Gardens Between. It's short, charming, and shows its rewarding puzzle mechanic in just a couple hours without stretching the game to its breaking point. Some people might think it's too short but it's a start contrast to a solid chunk of big budget games that boast nebulous amounts of content over shorter, more authored experiences.
The Gardens Between is a great example of a puzzle game with the most simple of mechanics, showcasing how much can be stretched out of so little. Its light story of friendship is sweet (if not a bit too saccharine). It complements the core mechanic of controlling the passage of time, and well, the inevitability of how no matter how much you'd like time to stand still sometimes, it'll move along regardless.
With a bittersweet story and a gorgeous, dreamlike world, The Gardens Between is time-bending puzzle game that you won't soon forget.
Although a lot of The Gardens Between is focused on its narrative, it also has clever brain-teasing puzzles and an engaging world that will hold the interest of gamers looking for an immersive story as well as those who love a challenge.