When you talk about gardens, you mostly imagine having one, as even though it sounds pretty simple and easy to get a garden it is a luxury only some of the people have. There are a couple of different gardens, like flower gardens, fruit gardens, or just gardens with decorations. The story goes and starts with the inheritance from your grandfather. As you arrive to the old house the first thing you recall is the beautiful garden that existed behind the house one that you could stare for hours. Austin, your grandfather’s butler, welcomes you to a once very nice and beautiful house, but know all that is left is ruins from the house and the beautiful garden. With the help of the butler, your job is to restore the garden to its former glory by purchasing a wide variety of ready-made elements, ranging from shrubs and gazebos to birdcages and mini-golf holes. But even though you got an inheritance, the whole inheritance was the house, and no money left to use to rebuild the house. You’re broke, no one to borrow the amount of money you need to put everything back together and to renovate the place. The only thing left for you to do is to search the whole house hoping that you could find something valuable to sell to earn some money for the restoration of the garden. The garden is now the priority as you are intending in taking place at the city gardening club's contest for most beautiful garden. That is also the main and final goal of the game, to win that contest. But first let’s make some money. People will start coming looking for different items they want to buy. Your job is to find those items as quickly as possible as every customer has a limited amount of patience. At first they all come very happy and are enjoying themselves while they are waiting for the item, but as longer it takes for you to find the wanted item the less happy the customer gets, and the less money you will get from them when you find the item. You will be doing the search through 15 different rooms in the mansion, looking for different stuff located in different rooms, so there will be some repetition as you will enter a certain room several times looking for different objects every time. Each sale takes place in a single room. Men and women will wander in and request things like coats, chess pieces, and kitchenware, and after you find what they are looking for you collect your payment. But these are not your only customers… You will see, actually hear from an actor which might send you a letter asking for whatever photos you can find in the house, which will send you to a room loaded with pictures. Or a local low-budget film director, for instance, might want 20 blow-dryers to help recreate a typhoon. But sometimes you will certainly get stuck with some items, or you will need tips on finding the items faster than you would normally find them. There are three different hints that help you through the game: a standard hint button, which doesn’t tell you where the item is, but it shows you the picture of the item you are looking for. If you have five customers lined up, pushing the hint button will show pictures of the five items they are looking for, hopefully enabling you to find them more quickly. But be sparing with using your hints. You can carry 5 hints max, and as you finish a scene, the more hints you have left to use, the more bonus you will get. You can use a hint per level, without losing a bonus as there is in every scene a single question mark somewhere hidden that will refill the used hint. There is also one very useful hint that can be found in the scene, the camera hint. Clicking on it makes the whole screen white and the only thing that is left is the items your customers are looking for. But you better be quick on clicking those items as the flash of the camera lasts very short. Another hint that can be found in the game is the thermometer hint that works on the hot/cold principle. Even though there will be a lot of backtracking in the same rooms, you will never get bored with live colors and the items you are looking for are mostly from everyday life. What's more, the environments and many of the items we seek are highly dynamic: car lights switch on, candles burn, and binoculars and towels dangle. It makes for exciting hunting. The graphics of the game is a real beauty, the animated scenes, and with Austin always there to remind you if you have forgotten your obligations, or just to say something funny to make you laugh for a while. As the most of the game is timed, if you aren’t the type that likes working under stress, there is the timeless mode, where you can sit back and relax with the game, without worrying about whether you will find the item on time or not. The game will provide a lot of gardening scenes in the game as you make enough money. From different flowers to trees to butterflies, everything that makes a garden so beautiful, you will have it and crate it by your own taste. If you have spent all of your resources in the game and still want to keep decorating the garden in a different style, you can start playing all over again and earn more money that you need. This game will certainly won’t disappoint you as it has got the relaxing and shall we say unlimited side of the game, but also the fast, intense and short one, that will max your hidden object searching skills. Enjoy the game, as with its various content and combination of HOG and gardening is a certainly one of the better games on the casual market.
