Garden Guardians is an
immersive-sim survival game
Play as a Garden Gnome, grow your garden,
and guard it in whimsical ways!
Design Goal:
Player Feels like a Garden Gnome
Garden Guardians seeks to plant real-world education into a silly, fairytale sandbox.
The player learns concepts on regenerative agriculture, native bio-diversity, and perma-culture design in order to navigate a simulated ecosystem struggling with pollution and invasive nature.
Systemic immersive-sim gameplay adds unpredictable silliness to the world, creating opportunities for creative player expression, and testing of world knowledge applicable in real-life.







Garden Gnomes are
Creative, Silly, Curious, Nature-Loving Crafters
Grow a garden, utilize what you grow in order to guard your home!
Take care of the land, and it will take care of you back!
Inspired by:
•Dwarf Fortress
•Minecraft
•Terraria
•Skyrim
•Valheim
•Dungeon Defenders
•Hollow-Knight
•Risk of Rain
Garden Guardians draws inspiration from Irish Folklore.
Mythical aspects can symbolize real world issues and technologies without demonizing real life, potentially at-risk flora and fauna!
Pre-Alpha Footage