Games like The Gardens Between
If The Gardens Between is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mayfly, Anamorphine and The Inspector — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful art style, clever time manipulation puzzles and emotional narrative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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.
Players who liked The Gardens Between also play
Steam players who put hours into The Gardens Between also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Mayfly
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Gardens Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this short narrative exploration game.
Anamorphine
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Gardens Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past - or be consumed by it.
The Inspector
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Gardens Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
The Inspector is a first-person dreamlike adventure where you explore the coma of your patients, looking for memories that will wake them up.
Uncle Otto's Mansion
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Gardens Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
You play as Audrey, who has just inherited a mansion from an uncle she never met. Step inside and explore the mansion to unveil the story of what happened to your uncle Otto, his butler, and this kinda creepy place. 😬
Red Frame
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Gardens Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
Descend into a buried mansion filled with intricate diorama-like puzzles. Manipulate time to test ideas and uncover hidden rules, piece together the story of a family, and discover the mechanism preserving their legacy.
Gone Home
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gardens Between.
Ranked #6 for The Gardens Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
OPUS: Prism Peak
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Gardens Between.
Ranked #7 for The Gardens Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
OPUS: Prism Peak is a narrative adventure where you play as a weary photographer stranded in the Dusklands, traveling with a girl who's lost her memories. Together, you'll uncover the mysteries of this land through your camera and find your way home.
Before Your Eyes
WHY THIS
Shares a melancholic mood with The Gardens Between.
Ranked #8 for The Gardens Between fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Gardens Between at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Gardens Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gardens Between.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Gardens Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Gardens Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gardens Between.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Gardens Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Gardens Between.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Gardens Between on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Gardens Between.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gardens Between.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gardens Between.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Gardens Between.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Gardens Between.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about The Gardens Between
- Is The Gardens Between verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Gardens Between is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Gardens Between cost?
- The Gardens Between is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Gardens Between?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Gardens Between are Mayfly, Anamorphine, The Inspector.
- Who developed The Gardens Between?
- The Gardens Between was developed by The Voxel Agents.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Gardens Between.
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