Summary
When it comes to gardening games, there is something so cozy, relaxing and often fun about growing your own crops. In the real world, this is a difficult, messy process that often results in most of your crops being eaten by bugs. In video games, however, it’s a great way to unwind.
Gardening games come in lots of different formats; some focus more on puzzle elements, while others are more slice of life, allowing you to garden and do other things that small-town farmers might be doing when starting a farm in a new town. There is a gardening game for everyone, and this list explores a grand variety of gardening games available on Xbox.
10Disney Dreamlight Valley
Gardening In A Stunning World
Disney Dreamlight Valley is a beautiful game, full of different characters you have likely seen before! There are tons of different areas to explore, as well asgardening that can be donebasically anywhere in game.
You are able to find seeds wherever you please and then use them to plant little gardens. It doesn’t take much to plant, but it can be a big part of your day to day life within the game.
9Farm Together
Play With Friends
Farm Together is a slice-of-life farming game where you and your friends can allwork together on a single farm. you may grow flowers, vegetables, and fruit trees, along with taking care of a bunch of different animals.
There is also fishing to be done, customizing your homes, and generally working together to create the best farm possible. It can be lonely to garden and farm alone, but being able to play with your friends is quite lovely, as you’re able to all work together.
8Castaway Paradise
Gardening On An Island
After washing up on a small island, you are looking to make the most of it in Castaway Paradise. You are able to plant flowers and vegetables around your home, along with planting fruit trees and maintaining the island.
There is a lot of freedom within this game. You can visit quirky NPCs, decorate areas, and make this place really feel like your home through customizing it. The graphic style is really bright and vibrant too, creating a fun world to garden in.
7Peepaw’s Farm
Short And Strange
Peepaw’s Farm is a short and strange game, about a small gardener who doesn’t like gardening at all. He’s actually not at all good at farming or taking care of animals either, and seems to do it out of some sort of duty.
It’s a puzzle game where you are trying to figure out exactly what you are meant to do, and the whole game can be played in about half an hour, which gives for a good, bite-sized time on your Xbox. It’s also an interesting take on gardening, as you are trying to grow a large eggplant.
Growing Plants For A Witch
In Homestead Arcana, you have returned home to find that a bunch of Maisma has taken over your small town, but being a witch, you are able to help. There is a lot of gardening involved when it comes to being a witch, as you need these ingredients to create potions.
you’re able to use magic in this game to help support your gardening, but you can also find yourself exploring the town, solving mysteries, and upgrading the place you live in. It’s a classic slice-of-life gardening game, with some witchy touches.
5Hokko Life
You Can Also Craft
Hokko Lifeis another slice-of-life style game. You have just moved to a new town, where you are looking to help out everyone you can find. You meet different characters that unlock the ability to do different things.Oma’s Inn will unlock the farming area, where you can then spend your time planting crops and harvesting.
Hokko Life has a big focus on building your own furniture and stylizing different aspects of it, which are then shown globally. It’s quite a nice break from gardening, and the whole game still has that small town, exploration feel that many gardening games have.
4Cloud Gardens
Sometimes Your Garden Is In A City
Cloud Gardens is a relaxing, almost set-building sandbox game where you are looking to grow plants on areas of abandoned city. you may place down a bunch of different abandoned objects, before getting read to plant so that your flowers and vines can take over the space.
This is done by throwing balls of seeds at different areas and hoping that they grow to fill out the space. It’s a game that focuses more on vibes then completing specific tasks, as you create a wasteland of beautiful, growing life.
3Grow: Song Of The Evertree
Magical And Filled With Creatures
Grow: Song of the Evertree is a more magical, mystical game where you are gardening to help a bunch of trees grow. You can spend your days riding your mythical beast to new tress, where you must then clear away weeds and other trash, plant seeds, and get the biomes back to life.
As you make the world more habitable, you will find more creatures that you’re able to document, and more people will start visiting your town needing homes. You sort of become the mayor, looking to ensure that they all live happy lives. It’s a very different type of gardening game, but feels rewarding and fun.
2Story Of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
Might Look Familiar
Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Lifemade its way on Xbox, and if you were a fan of gardening games and had a GameCube, you might know this game well. This is a classic farming game that has a lot of nostalgia, but has been optimized for the new age. you’re able to find yourself farming in a huge plot of land, getting a bunch of animals, and exploring the town that you live in.
Along with gardening, you can make friends, give gifts, and get married if you’d like! There is a lot to do, but the main focus is on gardening and making your home something you can nurture into something that helps the town.
1Coral Island
It’s Like Stardew Valley But New
Coral Islandis a slice of life-style farming game where you have, as it turns out, moved to a new town to start up a life of farming. This town has a bit more depth than other types of farming games that have you fixing up a new town. There are festivals, lots of places to explore, and even mysteries to solve.
Coral Island can have you planting crops, tending to farm animals, creating fruit trees and using a bunch of your produce to create something new. But on rainy days, where you don’t need to water crops, you’re able to also clean up the ocean, catch bugs, and help your town’s museum.
