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Gardenscapes

Enjoy Your Garden Puzzle Game

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Casual

Languages

English

Welcome to Gardenscapes, the legendary match-3 game from Playrix. Solve thousands of challenging levels to earn stars and restore a once-grand garden to its former glory. Decorate different areas with unique layouts, follow a deep storyline full of unexpected twists, and interact with a cast of charming characters and adorable pets. Participate in regular special events like expeditions and competitions to win exclusive rewards.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

85/100

Gardenscapes is the gold standard for the 'meta-puzzle' genre. While many match-3 games feel like a series of disconnected levels, Playrix successfully anchored the experience in a compelling narrative and a satisfying restoration loop. Austin the Butler is an iconic guide, and watching the dilapidated estate transform into a lush paradise provides a level of long-term motivation that keeps players coming back for years. The sheer amount of content is staggering; with over 16,000 levels, you're never in danger of running out of things to do.

Technically, the game is incredibly polished. The 'juice'—the visual and auditory feedback when clearing tiles—is top-tier, making every move feel impactful. However, it’s worth noting that the difficulty curve can be steep in later stages, often encouraging the use of boosters or in-app purchases. The constant rotation of seasonal events and expeditions helps alleviate any repetitive feelings, offering fresh mechanics and unique decorations. For casual gamers who enjoy a mix of storytelling, decoration, and logic puzzles, Gardenscapes remains an industry leader.

Dinsun reviewed on: Thu Feb 13 2025

Features

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16,000+ Match-3 Levels

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Unique Garden Decoration

3

Engaging Narrative

4

Social Community Features

5

Frequent Special Events

Upcoming Events

Garden Pass
Garden Pass
Brighten your game with the new season
Sat Feb 28 2026 - Fri Mar 20 2026
Sands of Oblivion
An expedition into sands and ancient secrets!
Tue Mar 10 2026 - Mon Mar 30 2026
Sport Collection
Sport Collection
Collect cards for amazing rewards!
Mon Mar 02 2026 - Sun Mar 22 2026

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

Yes, match-3 levels can be played offline, but an internet connection is required for competitions and social features.

Ratings & Reviews

The best game ever!!!!!
Tue Jun 11 2024 London Bandon

This game has zero ads yes you read that right zero add and it needs no Internet. OK I bet both of those ideas just blew your mind. If you wanna see how it is find out yourself in this game is the best ever if I wanted to read this like I am about soon even though I am saying it right now anyways but this is the best game ever best game ever that’s why the title is called. Best game ever if you wanna think royal matches better than this, I don’t think so. I think that this is the best game ever real match. Yes, it has zero ads zero Internet but this I find it the best game ever you could take this on train boats anything just don’t drop your phone or else you really won’t be able to play this game but now you can download this game just watch and your parents will be like what let me see these ratings. This looks like nothing to me. They look at it and they see all these good ratings now you try this game out for yourself and find out about these ratings. Do you like oh yeah yes Katie yes Jeffrey you got that, that’s down pack. You got it now. Download this game right now now I have to stop talking now because I need to try this new game out that I’ve been playing. I cannot stop playing. I’m on a really high level now. If you think you can be my level 543 then you are very good but I don’t think so yet I think you might because you’re gonna love this game so much now come on. You’re gonna get this in love now. I gotta go now bye

PLEASE HELP!
Wed Jun 18 2025 gus.march

I have been obsessed with this app for around 2 months now, playing almost every day and really enjoying the gameplay and story. However, I’ve run into this small tiny game glitch that is driving me so crazy - I don’t even want to open the app anymore! Developers, PLEASE HELP! Around level 415, in the maze area of the garden, once you start planting new shrubs in the maze you get three options. This is how every customizable decoration or plant is presented- however after you pick one you have always had the option to go back and change it (to one of the other 2 options.) I’ve gotten used to this format, and often pick the first option knowing I can go back and change it without really looking at the other options (just to move the story along.) HOWEVER - when planting the maze shrubs you are presented three options and with NO WARNING, after your first selection you cannot go back and change the customization. I’m so upset because the shrub type I selected first looks so different from the rest of my garden so far, completely different color, and whenever I open the app I get so frustrated I wasn’t warned of it all!! I hate how it looks!!! After a google I realized this isn’t just a glitch on my own app and read that others had a similar frustrating moment. Developers, I know this is small, but I don’t want to lose the fun of my new favorite game due to this! I’m so frustrated I’m writing my first appstore review! Please Help and Update this in the next season PLEASE!

Mom, Counselor, Gardenscaper
Tue Jul 04 2023 TeachingTechMom

I’m almost to level 10,000. The game has slowed down a bit. There are some levels that are pretty hard and I’ll spend weeks on them, or buy the power up disk with extra firecrackers. This game got me through graduate school. It gave me the mental break I needed to refocus and get back to work. I wish a couple of things were different. There used to be a place we could pick to watch ads to get more money. On a hard level, I’d spend days getting more coins through ads and more power ups and now I cannot have the ads. It would build up to lots of power ups and 900 coins so I could have extra lives and finally beat a level that took so long. It’s not something I thought about for a long time because I would just play this game, but I recently downloaded another game and there are tons of Gardenscapes ads. We don’t have ads…but you advertise. Another thing, why aren’t your loyal players given the chance to play mini games? I want to help the lady and her daughter stay warm after that jerk face ex ran off to marry someone else. The’ve never shown up in my play. All we have are those excursions that are impossible to beat without lots of money. I spend around $10 a month on my payday to play your game. I’ve been playing about 5 years and I did try to start a new edition of the game on the iPad so I could play mini games but it was so frustrating to start over. I linked my progress back to Facebook and the games were gone. :(

Great game…but could be AWESOME
Sat Nov 02 2024 DeannGames

I really enjoy this game with beautiful graphics, thoughtful stories, and appreciate no ads. But I agree with others’ feedback: hard levels shouldn’t take days to beat, I miss the mini games (which are what I thought I was getting as the game, based on the ads that brought me to it), and the adventures seem impossible to beat without spending cash (let alone completing both the path and the collections). All power-ups should be chosen from within the level—as you play (not before you start the level and don’t know what you’re facing or will need). ‘Challenge’ levels should be optional (without saving special boosters, most are just a waste of life). Rewards of timed unlimited lives should be “banked” like bombs, where you have to choose when to use them—not automatically applied. This is a BIG problem! Sometimes you only have 5-10 minutes to play and can’t use another 10-60+ minutes of free lives at that moment. Wasted! I play on my phone so just touching the screen “accepts” them before I can even leave the app. Helping strangers with free lives or team rewards is cool, but you shouldn’t be competing *against* them for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place rewards! My team has become few and less active, so I’m mostly here playing solo with an extra 1-2 free lives. I didn’t choose this as a competitive game, or team effort game, so making it harder with less free help for solo play is one of the things that may cause me to quit.

This game was totally different in the ads
Sun Aug 11 2024 Little me🩵

OK, so I download this game a couple months ago because I kept seeing it all over and I’m like I’ll try it. Why not but completely different me wrong. I love it. I love the graphic designs on it. It’s beautiful, but I’m not a big fan of it I mean, yes you do get to play some of the mini games it shows on the ad itself but only a little bit. My mom also has scam and I guess she thought it was different but it is puzzling but not as puzzling as I like it. I like my games challenging, but I’m not big fan of doing this to me, but I do want to ask her and once I ask her, I’ll check back but this game is although super fun. It is calming and relaxing, but I do wish the game was a bit more interesting the games that shows on the ad itself but I just don’t like games that are like shows you different things on the ads to make a game seem interesting and says that it’s like the same thing when you download the game I think they’re doing that so they can get more people hooked onto the game and I don’t say no ads, there are fullscreen ads all the time and some of my games and it’s annoying. This game isn’t really that it gives you a couple ads every once in a while but not a lot. I just wish that there would be a few more puzzles like it shows on the ad and hopefully the developers respond to this because I would love this fixed and I have no other complaints about this game or problems with it. It’s normal to me.

Pretty Good
Wed May 29 2024 B1lly Goat

It’s a great game and I did not get it from looking at the adds my sister has been playing for years and has a really big garden so she suggested it to me. But now that I see the adds it’s kind of a scam for one thing the stuff they show on ads are mini games and people only have them every 10-20 levels plus the mini games are not nearly as fun or long as they seem to be most of the time when I beat a normals level it either gives me a super hard level that I get stuck on or it keeps giving me easier levels so that you finally get stuck on a level. If you download Gardenscapes it may seem easy at first but it gets harder and harder every day take it from me I’m on level 519 and most of the time I open the app I get stuck on a level and trust me I’m not a bad player I have tons of match games that I’m on a high level in but for some reason Gardenscapes is the hardest. Right now I’m stuck on a level. A good thing about Gardenscapes is that it has a lucky spin every day most of the time you get pretty good stuff depending on the level you use it. But sometimes they have fun seasons that give you better and better rewards every time you beat a level but the minute you lose one they all disappear which is pretty annoying especially when you’re on a level that gives you 3 stars when you beat it ( those levels are always hard but when you have tons of rewards and lose it’s really annoying.).

It’s not bad, but NOTHING LIKE THE ADDS… 😭
Wed May 08 2024 Great 😊 !

Okay so this game is super fun I’ve been playing it for a few years now , but my one and only complaint is that this game is nothing like it shows in the adds you can only do what is shown in the adds in the mini games , which isn’t really fair because even the icon of the game has a picture of the mini games and that picture doesn’t really show how the mini games really go . The game is about helping a gardener restore his childhood home and also I’ve seen ads that say this game needs no WiFi and has no ads . That is not true , maybe Playrix, the developer could keep this game , change the icon maybe and if possible make another game that’s jsut as shown in the ads with a different name and icon and different ads Update: this is just my perspective of the game and what I would like , possibly not your idea of the game, and I would love a response from the developer, Playrix but I overall absolutely love this game. Update from I few years later: playrix, please make the stuff said in the adds true. Um also yes even the game gossip harbour isn’t like the adds but the adds, the girl and mom are the same? Why? Also the real game tbh is boring, the adds show something so fun tho! Why can’t you make an app like that? Please? I will give it five stars and a wholesome review 🥰 so please Playrix, (side note, the game is still awesome just not my kind of game)

Fun but ends up frustrating
Tue Jul 09 2019 Pscali

I have been playing this game for months now and really enjoyed it in the beginning. As with most people these type games they start easy and you feel good watching your gardens become beautiful. My problem is that when I win challenges and come in the top spots and receive time rewards the game seems to be rigged so that you end up with a level that takes up all the time you have won. I came in first on one of the fireworks challenges and was awarded 3 hours, the first hour I was winning levels but had to use extra items. Once those extra items were gone then I was stuck on same level for the rest of my time. This is not the first time this has happened and I find this to be extremely frustrating as you know that the only way you will make it through is to spend real money. I have quit so many games like this for that reason. I understand developers need to make money on the games but they need to come up with a way that will keep them having loyal players. I really do enjoy the game and the graphics are great but when I have to spend real cash to win that is when the time comes for me to delete the game. Not all of us players can afford to dish out cash so the ones who do are the ones who end up winning the challenges as the game progresses and that is unfair to everyone else. I will continue to search for a game that actually rewards loyalty without having to keep spending cash to do it. I was really hoping that this game would have been the one.

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gamesbeat.com Sat Aug 23 2025

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Sensor Tower Sat Oct 23 2021

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PocketGamer.biz Thu Jul 23 2020

ASA bans misleading Homescapes, Gardenscapes adsASA bans misleading Homescapes, Gardenscapes ads

The Advertising Standards Agency has banned two Facebook ads for Playrix's casual hits Homescapes and Gardenscapes.

GamesIndustry.biz Wed Dec 23 2020

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Financial Times Thu Jul 23 2020

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Two misleading ads for mobile games that bear little relation to the actual product have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority...

BBC Wed Dec 23 2020

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Aleksandr Shilyaev, lead game designer at Playrix, explains how the studio addressed these challenges while working on its hit title Gardenscapes.

Game World Observer Sat Nov 23 2019

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PR Newswire Wed Jun 23 2021

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Sensor Tower Thu Jul 23 2020

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