The Bottom Line
Pros
- you won't want to stop playing until you beat it
- bring 'friends' along to help you garden and earn money faster
- after beating the game, go back with all the unlockables to beat your previous times
- low system requirements
Cons
- doesn't take long to complete all missions
Description
- Help Granny and her friends pay their bills by growing vegetables in their gardens.
- Unlock 40 tools and assistants to make your gardening go easier and a little faster.
- 80 levels of play, divided by five gardens.
- Grow pumpkins, tomatoes, watermelons, and eggplants.
- Pick 3 of the items or helpers you have unlocked for each mission.
- Upgrade your equipment to help the plants grow faster and make your job easier.
- Kill pests to keep them from eating your vegetable plants.
Guide Review - "Garden Dreams" Review (PC)
Growing your garden is easy. It's all clicking and dragging. To water a plant, you click on it. To upgrade your equipment, you click on the icon. To collect vegetables, you click on them. And the pattern continues with everything else you'll need to do in the game.
As you progress through the levels, "friends" will be unlocked for you to bring along with you to help garden. There are 3 slots for the friends (4 after you beat the game). You do not know what the next level will bring. You'll have to take your best guess, and pick the items that work with your playing strategy. What are the friends? Well, there is a doctor who brings plants back to live, a bird (and frog) that eats pests, sprinklers, and more things that help you take care of the plants and collect the vegetables when they are ready.
It won't take you long to beat "Garden Dreams" if you just sit down and play it for a few hours. If you do that, you'll feel cheated out of your money; unless you want to go back with all the unlockables and try to beat your best times. It's a game to play when you have 10 to 15 minutes to spare. Just beware, that playing it for just 10 minutes can be hard to do.
