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Garden Simulator is a Simulation Game developed by PRODUKTIVKELLER Studios and published by SunDust and first released on September 8, 2022. The game places the player into a virtual backyard which must be turned into a productive garden. The player is tasked with keeping the grounds, planting and nurturing the plants, and then harvesting crops for profit.The game features the following tropes:
- Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Plants take only a few days to grow and start yielding crops after the seeds are planted. In addition, items purchased in-game are dropped off within a few seconds.
- Animal Companion: Your orange cat is always in the garden with you and can be played with at any time.
- Anti-Frustration Features: Once you earn enough money, you can buy robotic lawn mowers that can tend the lawn and eliminate your need to do so.
- Artistic License – Physics: Played with. Physics are realistic in nature but this allows for the player to have fun in ways they shouldn't try in a real-life garden.
- Instant Home Delivery: Packages in the game arrive within seconds of ordering them.
- In-Universe Game Clock: Every in-game day lasts about ten minutes and ends at 6:00 PM in-game time. But you can end a day at any time by going inside your house.
- Shout-Out: One of the items you can order in game is a volleyball named "Willy", close to a personified volleyball from a certain film.
- Wide-Open Sandbox: Your backyard may be small, but there is no restriction as to what you can do in there.
