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Garden of Stars

Grow a garden that sings.

You’re a little astronaut tending a garden beside a lake in a starlit cave. Sit on the stone by the shore, play a short melody on your flute, and see what seed the lake gives you. Plant it, water it as it grows, and come back when it blooms. Fully grown flowers sing when you walk near them. With a few plants close together, a walk through the garden becomes a piece of music you’ve arranged yourself.

Grow your garden

Start with one seed and unlock all five flower species, from the pink Chimebell to the shimmering Prismbloom. Seeds come in three rarities, which change the color of the plant. Each species grows at its own pace. The water indicator above a plant shows when it’s ready for its next watering, and even sprouts and buds smile when you water them.

Drag seeds from your inventory onto glowing garden beds. You can also move a planted flower to another empty bed as you rearrange the garden.

Make music with your flowers

Mature flowers sing on a shared beat when you come within range. Nearby flowers pick notes that can harmonize, and you can change each plant’s note, voice, and timing to shape the melody yourself.

Click a flower to give it a name, try a different voice, or record a sound of your own. You can choose when that recording plays in the rhythm, just like a preset voice.

Discover 20 hybrids

Drag one fully grown flower onto another to cross them. If the two plants are compatible, you can name your new hybrid and confirm the cross. A hybrid can combine up to three distinct species and inherits the highest rarity of its parents.

Each of the 20 combinations has its own appearance. Open the greenhouse to see your discoveries. Undiscovered hybrids appear as silhouettes, and a discovery stays in your collection even if you recycle the flower.

Earn oxygen and launch your rocket

Earn oxygen by watering flowers, staying near them while they sing, and recycling fully grown plants. Spend it to play the flute and unlock more species, which adds their seeds to the lake.

Once you’ve unlocked all five base species, created at least one hybrid, and saved 100 oxygen, you can launch your rocket. Each launch begins a fresh garden and gives you a lasting bonus. For every full 100 oxygen you had at liftoff, future oxygen rewards increase by +2. The bonuses stack across runs.

Spend a little time under the stars

The cave shifts from day to night as you play. Warm lanterns flicker along the paths, ripples spread across the lake, and seven ambient tracks play in shuffled order. The flowers’ preset voices adapt to the music as the soundtrack changes.

Controls

  • WASD or arrow keys to move
  • E to water a nearby flower, play the flute by the lake, or interact with the rocket
  • WASD to play the notes shown during the flute minigame
  • Left click a flower to open its card
  • Hold and drag a seed or flower onto an empty bed to plant or move it
  • Drag one mature flower onto another to cross them
  • Esc to pause or cancel the current action

Made by MurDig.

Updated 5 days ago
Published 8 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
AuthorMurDig
Tags2D, 3D, Farming, Indie, Music, Space, Tycoon
AI DisclosureAI Assisted, Graphics
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Garden of Stars v1.7 120 MB

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OMG This new version feels insane! I can add my own dirty words

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the plant hybrid feature is cool, love how it turned out

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good project

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Cozy Oxygen Farm story

Feels good to launch it on my 2nd monitor - and take a look - time after time

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