Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 08:33 pm
Gardenscapes – Entertainment Game Review
Gardenscapes is a Entertainment/Puzzle/Casual game from PLR Worldwide Sales Limited, first launched in 25th August 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,657,236+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Gardenscapes Stand Out
Welcome to Gardenscapes, the first game from the Playrix Scapes™ series! Make match-3 combinations and bring coziness and beauty to every corner of your garden.
Solve fun puzzles, restore and explore new areas of the garden, and meet new friends in every chapter of the exciting storyline. Austin the butler is ready to welcome you to a world of incredible adventures!
Game Features:
● Gameplay loved by millions of players! Make match-3 combinations and decorate your garden while enjoying an entertaining story!
● Over 16,000 captivating levels with explosive power-ups, useful boosters, and cool elements.
● Exciting events! Embark on fascinating Expeditions, compete against other players in different challenges, and win awesome prizes!
● One-of-a-kind garden areas with unique layouts, from fountain ensembles to island landscapes.
● Loads of fun characters: meet Austin's friends and neighbors!
● Adorable pets that will become your faithful companions!
Play with your Facebook and Game Center friends, or make new friends in the game community!
Gardenscapes is free to play, but some in-game elements (including randomized items) can be purchased for real money. If you don't want to take advantage of this option, simply turn it off in your device's Restrictions menu.
A Wi-Fi or internet connection is not required to play.
*An internet connection is required to access competitions and additional features.
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Gardenscapes is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
A Gardenscapes Winter Update!
NEW EVENTS
Great Plains Adventure: Help Sheriff Rob catch a thief and return a prize horse to its owner!
Athena's Tear: Explore ancient shrines to find a valuable artifact!
GARDEN STORY
Help Austin and Balthazar make their way to a forgotten pirate town in search of the legendary Black Abyss!
Download & Availability
Gardenscapes is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Awesome game to burn some down time.
This is sooooooo addictive and soo fun we really recommend.
This is such a fun game with fun mini games no WiFi needed no adds AT ALL this is our new favorite game.
It lets little kids learn(little kid haziel).
This game is really fun and entertaining! The puzzles are very fun and challenging at the same time, we love playing this on our free time and ya.
As Evie, on Justforfun, this game is the best game we ever played.
This is our favorite game ever we just started and we cant stop playing it there is no adds no nothing.
Garden scapes is a fun time consuming game its great for on the go if your like us we love puzzles this game gives us a place that we make beautiful while also having fun completing puzzles.
It is a real fun enjoyable game to challenge the whats next chip in the brain:).
Love this game, BUT, you really need to have an are you sure option, when you dont want to add moves,.
If our comment is allowed to be posted, please display it normally. If it cannot be displayed, please inform us of the specific personal reason! The following is the main text: This is not limited to this game. If you have repeated the current level 30 times and still failed to pass it, we think anyone who has received modern education should not doubt their own intelligence. In fact, your intelligence is far superior to that of the designers who formulated these game policies and rules. Eventually, the purpose of any game will deviate from what its rule designers and formulators originally intended. For f(x), x is the input any arbitrary input. Linear or non-linear? Here, the designers and formulators are those who hold the existing rules and discourse power.
This game is so much fun and the mini games are also amazing! You should get the puppy its soooo cute!This game doesnt need internet and is child friendly and we think even adults would love it.
The music for the game was changed, and now it doesnt remotely sound like a garden type game. It sounds like one of those Match Kingdom games. Could there be an option to switch back to the original music.
We got this game because the ad made it look really fun but when we got the game and started playing it it turned out to be like a whole different game.
We really did enjoy the first 2 segments. They were cozy and we loved the hometown feel and character interaction. We do not like the tropical villa theme at all. Its cold, a lot of the neighbors disappeared, heck the cat is gone too. We dont play it like we did, not fun anymore. Bring back the original cozy garden feel. Not concrete and desert.
We have accidentally hit the continue playing button and spent coins sooooooo many times. Please add a confirmation/are you sure button so this doesnt happen. Also, please add an option to use X number of stars at once. We like this game but DETEST having to do the stars/skip the animations. It is deadly boring to us. If we could spend 100/200/500/etc at once after Ive accumulated them, it would make us very happy. Have a default where it just chooses option 1 for all the decorations when it gives you a choice- we literally do not care what the garden looks like.
In the commercial it shows a tiny poor family trying to survive. ButYour game is just a not that fun little matching game with a lying little ad. Ill change our review once you stop lying to the world. Please change.
Ive been playing this game since it came out and the recent changes are horrible. First there used to be 3 gifts on the task bar now there is only one when its completed and now the worst change is the boosters instead of 2 bombs you get one and instead of a rainbow blast and dynamite you only get a dynamite we wrote in and was told it was to make a better game experience. Like how? How is taking away things that sometimes if your lucky help with the levels that are getting ridiculously hard a better experience? Its making us not want to play anymore.
People who make the game lower it to 5+ or below twelve or soemthing! We loved this game so much but now we since we cant update it we cant play it! It wont let us! Developers fix this and Ill make your review better. Because this is really a great game when its not twelve up.
Yall scammed us we want a game with no merging and only the mini games LIKE THE ADDS.
Decreases in the boosters capabilities and rewards for playing events have really made this game a bummer. Also, no confirmation makes it too easy to accidentally spend coins which are earned but also can be purchased so they are easy to accidentally waste. All seems like just a money grab.
Developers reducing coins on bowling events by HALF if you win, hard levels impossible to beat without spending money, power ups disappear Immediately because you cant beat a level in a first try without spending. Getting too expensive and frustrating to play.
You dont get no level up from bonus rounds and if you get a rainbow after 10 wins and lose on the bones round you lose the rainbow and have to start over basically for nothing. We personally think its the most pointless thing we ever seen on a game app tbh.
Updated this AM and now game freezes on one screen Please fix this asap. Thank you.
We love it but it we thought it would be like the ad.
Ive played this game for years now and the glitches are getting worse and worse. Now when we try to replay a level the game board does not appear and we need to close out of the app and open it up again. Theyve also taken away some of the more intense power ups which was never commented on or warned about and many of the levels are repetitive and some are even impossible to complete without massive power ups. Please do better.
The game gets stuck and freezes when it's time to replay the level after losing. The only option is for us to close the game. This is really annoying. Please fix.
Ive played – and used to spend money on – this game since 2017. This last year in particular more and more fun features have been taken away. The expeditions are constant and mind-numbingly repetitive and more and more rewards have been taken away.
It is a fun game, and has improved from when we tried it years ago. However, unless you only plan on playing once or twice, you will 100% get to the point where you will have to buy power-ups to advance, and it will not take very long. If that is ok with you, then we highly recommend it. But if you dont want to spend $, dont even start, because you will hit a dead end pretty quickly if you dont. We also dont understand why you cannot turn off the hint feature where the suggested tile shakes. We dont want that, never have, and there is no way to stop it. Had some fun but definitely deleting it permanently. They dont even give you all that much for the $ you spend.
This game is so fun we could play it all day and night. Thats how fun it is its so fun. Well we cant play it all day and all night because we gotta go to sleep at night and we got things to do on day one day we have things to do so well a day we have things to do sorry the phone was messing up but no sorry the thing was messing up but yeah its so fun play it now.
Very good game to play and pass the time.
You can play a whole different game and recreate parts that were destroyed.
Love this game download for fun.
We wonder if yall will have another one. We dont have a nick name.
Very cool and very nice work on this game.
Is so relaxing and every time the bomb like explodes its just so satisfying to watch and plus theres no ads so we dont have to bother trying to figure out how to delete an ad.
We Love you soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much gardenscapes.
We love this game as well as all the mini games you can play to win extra boosters coins. The graphics are on point! We just wish there was more ways to win energy. We found this game within the fetch app and so glad we did.
Love the game! Would recommend adjusting the Team Group Chat/ Info section. New update is making it a little hard to read and understand! Thanks.
This is a very fun game to play in your down time.
We rated this game five so you can see this the game is nothing like the add it's actually like candy crush type of game.
Five stars is not our real review. Its actually one the ad show a mother and a daughter needing money to build a home. We wanted to play that not whatever this game is its horrible. Its not even that fun nor relaxing and its just boring when this game gets an update that actually has what the ad has then tell us >:(.
Shes a very smart and very smart person she knows that we dont know her we know her and she has a very sweet lady we like when you say she is a very kind person we mean.
Its not exactly the same as in the ads! Well yeah it gives one of those puzzles every once in a while but unless you like games like candy crush (witch we dont) dont get it.
Its a cute fast paced puzzle game. We gave it 5 stars.
It is fun but, the want to save the people more and the good part is that there isnt any adds.
Its awsome and great for kids who love adventure and so fun.
The most recent example for other.
Updates to this game have been horrible. On the old adventures you would see lists of things to look for, now you just have to aimlessly search around trying to find things you havent done.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 9.3.1
- Size: 294.58 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Contests, Loot Boxes
- Developer: PLR Worldwide Sales Limited
Last updated: 20th December 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Puzzle | Developer: PLR Worldwide Sales Limited