The Gardens Between

A beautiful but all-too-brief brainteaser from an Australian studio previously best known for games about (ideally not) crashing trains into each other, The Gardens Between features vivid visuals and a delicious ambient soundtrack, but it’s easily finished inside three hours.

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Which is to say: this is gorgeous, gently testing the grey matter with measured care, but it’d have benefitted from having a little more to it.

Playing The Gardens Between requires just three controls – a pleasantly low barrier for entry. You move time forwards and backwards within each meticulously detailed stage with the left stick, while the Switch’s A button sees either of the game’s protagonists, neighbouring kids frendt and Arina, interact with a small array of in-game elements in front of them.