Polly Pocket-Inspired ‘Tiny Garden’ Coming to Switch After Kickstarter Success

Ao Norte, the developer behind Tiny Garden, had hoped to bring their game to Switch via Kickstarter. The campaign launched with a modest goal of $5,000 to make the port, and that goal was reached in about an hour. The game is now guaranteed for Switch, and there’s plenty of time left on Kickstarter to reach some additional goals.

Tiny Garden is a simple-to-play, miniature farming strategy game in a 90s plastic toy. Plant, grow, and trade your vegetables for new plants and items to customize your toy set!

In Tiny Garden, everything revolves around the humblest plastic vegetables. Get carrot or turnip seeds, grow them, and swap them for bigger, fancier vegetables, plants, or even furniture to customize every corner of your garden.

In the beginning, there is the seed. Take it and bury it in the ground. Then, turn the crank. As if it were a real mechanical toy, the crank will make things happen. After turning the crank once, twice or three times, the seeds will grow and become carrots, turnips, sunflowers and many other things!

Once you have enough vegetables, you can harvest them and exchange them for new seeds or items, like furniture, to customize your little house inside the toy set.

Some plants will change the soil. Cacti turn the land into a desert, bushes make grass grow around them, and fountains flood the land, turning it into a perfect place for… a water lily, for example!

• A game that represents a mechanical toy from our childhood
• A relaxed experience: there is no death, no emergency, no failure
• A healthy, 90s aesthetic
• Discover all the items in the game and customize the little set as you wish

Remember all that time you spent playing with that toy? You actually thought growing vegetables was as easy as turning a crank. Now, older and wiser, you see that it’s not as simple as it seems.

With your playset, you’ll feel like you’re there: at 7 years old, lying on the floor of your room, you’ll arrange carrots and tomatoes in their place and turn the crank to see the magic happen. You can place the wooden table or the cupboard in the upper part of the playset. Meanwhile, you can grow sunflowers, water lilies and even a big tree in the lower part of the playset. Come on, turn the crank to make them grow and exchange them for more seeds and furniture! There are some cute ones waiting for you!

Things are not just things. They are memories of a life lived.