The Space Garden

First of all: This game could be fun. It definitely has the potential. Unlike other people I've had no problem with loading a saved game, but that might be due to the limited number of planets in it. But there's still some things I found that just ruin the fun. - There is no offline progression. Arguably a design choice. It would still be nice if you'd even get a little amount, even if it's capped like in Plantera. - The most critical thing for a clicker/idle game: Once the window loses focus, the game stops completely. That point alone makes me not want to play it - If you leave the game running and just go away and do something else, your helpers will die rather soon. And while you can revive them manually, it won't happen automatically. So when you get back you'll get the income of a few minutes and need to start over with your helpers. I could overlook the odds in the building system (which looks suspiciously like Plantera), fuzzy controls and the other annoying things, but unles...

Cookie Clicker-esque. It's not hard on the computer but neither is it entirely gripping, at least for me. Graphics are somewhat decent, though I spent most of my time too zoomed out to really appreciate all the details. Some of the planet effects were unclear to me at first and it took a bit of trial and error to play. The one thing that was really the dealbreaker for me was the achievements. Once you hit level 26, you've pretty much done all but one achievement, and that means waiting until you reach level 40-something - something I really didn't want to spend even more time on seeing as the game is only active if it's the window at the forefront. Exp scaling past level 30 is abysmally slow and that's what really turned me off the game. Nice try though!

Not bad for a game by a single person. It's pretty solid mechanics wise. Very simple which is good as it doesn't explain anything in the game except in pictures like helper + apple = money. Everything has little i's on them so you can click that for simplistic help. It's actually fairly enjoyable. Very much a cookie clicker/clicker heroes meats gardens in space. Plant plants, get fruit, fruit gives coins, coins by better plants. Rinse and repeat basically. At first it doesn't seem obvious how to expand from your 1st planet to another. You get a skill/buy option at lvl 9 I think it was. Every level up if you unlock something it will show a card version of it on screen for you. You get an unlock about every 2 levels until lvl 20. After that it seems to space out more and more. achievements are easy to get. I would say the pacing of the game is a little off but otherwise it's pretty good. If you want a casual time waster like cookie clicker/clicker heroes then this is perfect. The hardest...

Actually this game is fun... it would be fun, when it wouldn't be full of bugs and the last update made it even worse. - saving doesn't work - all helpers are dead when you restart the game - prices are resetting after restarting the game. This means prices start from zero even if you already have built things on your map (which might be good, but it is defenitely not how it should work) And there are some other things that aren't working fine: - you have a map but you can't click on it to get to the position you still have to move with WASD and moving like that feels very clumsy - there are different kinds of helpers but you only have a picture which explains that they collect fruits. So you can't even tell what is the difference between them (if there is even a difference!?) - helpers die very fast and with the clumsy controls and with >10 planets it takes far too long to revive them. By the time you got around the whole map new helpers died and you have to get around the map over a...

** UPDATE ** The latest update (1.1.0) removed the main, huge bugs. I'm leaving the original review at the bottom. The developer is very active and fixes the bugs quickly. This game is a cross between a farming game, Eufloria and Cookie Clicker. It's a fun way to pass the time! ** Original Review ** As much as I think this game has potential, and regardless of the fact that I actually like this game, (It kind of reminds me of Eufloria) it has TONS of bugs. The bugs really detract from the fun, and I had to stop playing. This should be an EA game, and it's definitely BETA. I'm not going to request a refund, as I hope the developers will fix it, but I cannot recommend this game until the MANY bugs are fixed.

Game:The Space Garden Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ An idle farmer that doesn't let you idle... [h1]Positives:[/h1] › Cute › Achievemnts are quite easy if you put in the work. [h1]Negatives:[/h1] › Menus? What menus! › Instructions? Just as bad as the menus. › idle? Guess thats is a no aswell. [h1]Community Items:[/h1] › Some of the backgrounds are super cute and really well done. › Emoticons are hit and miss. › The Badges are really well done! Lvl 1, 2, 3 and 5 super cute! Lvl 4 is strange as fuck... and the foil is nice. [b]Do I recommend this game?[/b] [b] No! [/b] this game looks like an idle clicker and plays like an idle clicker but you can't idle? [I got to level 23] it may get better at higher levels, but after 2 hours and having to constantly watch the screen so the "helpers" don't die I gave up. If you have the patience to actually watch the game for what looks like 140 levels this game is for you!

No real tutorial, options, or story. It feels more like a free to play mobile game, and the fact you're only given some pictures with no actual explaining how to do anything is really frustrating.

Too grindy not fun bad

The interface is awful and the game itself isn't very intuitive. Has potential, but that's it.

The Space Garden has no instructions and no offline progress. Plantera is the better version of this game.