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The Gardens Between
The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands. Manipulate time to solve puzzles and discover the secrets of each island.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.
“A wordless adventure of two friends. This time-traveling based game allows you to manipulate the time alone to solve 18 stages of puzzles. The story follows two friends, Arina, and Frendt who uses their tree house as a boat to take them from an island to another. They both work…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“Imagine playing with a very beautifully illustrated and intricate pop-up book. That is about as good a description I can give you for what The Gardens Between is. You can close and open the page to make things move backwards and forwards. But seeing as this is a digital pop-up…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“The Gardens Between is a quite short, but lovely time manipulation puzzle game. During the whole game you just move forward or backward with your 2 characters, simulating the flow of the time that way. During this, you have the option to interact with various objects. These…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-22.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Hidden Memories of The Gardens Between Announced!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3084870/Hidden_Memories_of_The_Gardens_Between/?ref=uploadvr.com Bend time at will, as childhood best friends Arina and Frendt journey across islands filled with pre
NEW: Previously unreleased music from the Gardens Between out now!
Glowing Pains: Deep Cuts - the second volume of the official soundtrack to The Gardens Between, made by the game’s musician Tim Shiel, is out now! Stream or purchase on Apple Music, Spotify, iTunes, D
We're up for a Webby! (Vote now
Hey Gardeners :) We're super excited today. We've just been nominated as a finalist for two Webby awards - Best Art Direction & Best Puzzle Game. There's some phenomenal games on the list and we're in
The Concepts Between - Art from 4 years of development
Who likes art!? We sure do! I was recently having a look through the archives, and boy do we have some treasures to share. I don't want to bore you with words here, a picture tells a thousand of them.
GOTY! #gratefulAF Shot to the heart with all the feels
The last few weeks have been incredibly exciting for the team behind ‘The Gardens Between’. We have been awarded MAC GAME OF THE YEAR and AUSTRALIAN GAME OF THE YEAR! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/s
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Short · Time Manipulation · Emotional · Story Rich · Walking Simulator · Nostalgia · Surreal · Relaxing · Atmospheric · Mystery · Linear · Puzzle (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Portuguese - Portugal, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 17 |
| Official site | http://thegardensbetween.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: 7 Processor: 1.8 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 4000 Series DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space