The UnderGarden Critic Reviews

The UnderGarden's unique elements come together to make for an enjoyable and relaxing game experience.

Its elegant simplicity will keep you engaged for hours without shooting, powerups, upgrading, leveling, dialog trees or versus play. The game's artwork delights and its music transports, making for three to four hours of pure gaming bliss.

Overall, the Undergarden is a breath of fresh air. It's a fantastic puzzler that achieves what it set out to do.

More "experience" than "videogame", The UnderGarden is a pure delight that proves you don't have to be a super tough "hardcore" title in order to be fun. It's not action packed, it's not punishing, and it's not what you would normally turn your Xbox 360 on for.

For those that are willing to give it a shot, The Undergarden is just a joy to be in. It's so peaceful and wonderful that everything else doesn't seem to matter. It doesn't rush you and it's not too challenging and is perfect for a little break from the hectic real life.

A wonderful puzzle game and also a visual adventures, which knows how to use curiosity for unknown, shiny and beautiful things to build objectives.

Turn out the lights and turn up the sound and immerse yourself in one of the most colorful and delightfully charming non-games of the year.

The Undergarden is both a return to the compulsion of traditional point-driven gaming and an exercise in non-compulsory experiential gaming, and it delivers both styles in one of the most pleasant indie packages since Flower.

Despite its flaws, The Undergarden is both accessible and enjoyable for all types of audiences. Whether you're a hardcore player looking for a break or a causal gamer wanting to try something new, this is one experiment in gameplay that's worth checking out.

Eye-catching visuals, a dynamic score, and a variety of puzzles make it easy to lose yourself in this magical world.

The Undergarden is laid back, gorgeous, and pretty damn weird - the main character is some kind of strange grinning monkey thing and your mission is to grow flowers in underground caverns.

The Undergarden can certainly be described as an experience, and a beautiful interesting one at that, but as a game, it falls a bit short.

Surely, if it weren't for the awful, unnecessarily nihilistic item management, I could easily recommend The UnderGarden to just about anyone.

Even with some annoying flaws, The UnderGarden provides a unique puzzle experience that will surely win you over with its charming visuals and beautiful music.

With a decent number of areas to clear, that's pretty much it.

Despite its few shortcomings, though, The UnderGarden is an almost entirely pleasant experience, and easy to recommend to anyone who's fed up with shooting people in the face, or fancies some laid-back, same-sofa multiplayer.

UnderGarden feels like an artsy game made by a bunch of businessmen, rather than an artist.

The Undergarden really is best used as a palette cleanser, a game to break up the monotony of blood and violence gamers seem to revel in.

It's an ambient experience stuffed with a very simple puzzle game, not a complex chicken cordon bleu as much as a comforting pig-in-a-blanket. Possibly the best looking pig-in-a-blanket you'll come across.

The Undergarden is a highly original idea with great puzzle elements that will keeep you entertained for hours, especially when playing co-op. In the end, it lacks some variation though.