- 62/100
- Players5 ratings
- 67/100
- Critics3 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic19 critic reviews
- 67/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 58/100
- GameFAQsEasy-Just Right
- 3/5
- Player reviews
- 67% positive56 reviews
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$6.99
Where to get it
2010 · Artech Digital Entertainment · Action-adventure · Adventure
The UnderGarden
The UnderGarden is a casual Zen game that challenges players to explore beautiful underground caverns filled with strange life forms, sound, music and plenty of hidden secrets. Casual gamers with an affinity towards puzzle games will enjoy The UnderGarden's modern exploration quest filled with brain teasing games that combine state of the art 3D rendering and physics based puzzles.
- Released
- 10 November 2010
- Platforms
- LinuxPlayStation 3WindowsXbox 360
- Genres
- Action-adventureAdventurePuzzleRhythm
- Developers
- Artech Digital Entertainment
- Publishers
- Atari
- Modes
- Single-player
- Themes
- Fantasy
- Country
- Canada
- Age ratings
- PEGI 3ESRB E
- Languages
- English, French, German
- Time to beat
- 5.5hmain story10hcompletionist
About
The UnderGarden is a casual puzzle game released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It uses a 2D platforming game style with puzzle elements including physics puzzles, and a floating player character. Two player cooperative play was also included. The game was marketed as a 'casual Zen game'.
Tommo purchased the rights to this game and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015.
Players say
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Reception
The game received mixed reviews; it received praise for the appearance and musical presentation, as well as the peaceful or relaxing ambience and broad range of appeal, though actual gameplay was considered by some reviewers to be limited, lacking complexity, or dull in the long-term.
A negative review by Kirk Hamilton in Joystiq described the game as having a 'me too' feel, comparing it unfavourably to Flower and Limbo. msxbox-world.com described it as "[feeling] like an artsy game made by a bunch of businessmen, rather than an artist".
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Platform libraries
Publishers
- Atari games (2001–present)2010s › 2010
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