Garden Paws

Garden Paws is a life-simulation game about inheriting your grandparents’ farm while they travel the world. You gather and sell items, farm, craft, fish, mine and complete quests, while working with Frank and Mayor Wilson to develop the nearby town. Building projects add shops, upgrades, quests and new areas to explore.

Explore and earn

Collect items across islands and caves, from flowers to other materials, then sell them in your shop to earn coins. You can also find hidden treasure and discover new things to collect, sell and wear as you explore. The mining camp lets you commission miners to clear rubble and open new caves, where you can find geodes and other treasures without fighting spirits. During Fall, you can take a boat to Halloween Island for loot.

Your shop is open from 12:00 to 18:00. It can grow from a small table stand into a large shop, with mannequins to display accessories and hats. More than 1,000 items can be sold, including raw materials and crafted goods, and you can hire an assistant to run the shop while you explore. Twitch Integration can let viewers appear as customers, interact through “hype” or “love” messages if enabled, and show chat or emotes in the game. Viewers can also be seen hanging out in the Inn or Townhall.

Farm and craft

Find seeds growing wild or buy them from Sammy the Seed Seller. Till and water the soil, then harvest crops after a couple of days to cook them or turn them into bouquets for your shop. Rain helps water crops, and you can craft sprinklers to tend them while you do other tasks. You can also fish at dawn or dusk, or use fish and shellfish traps instead.

Build a Chicken Coop and Barn with Frank, then raise animals including chicks, ducks, calves, alpacas, foxes, ferrets, goats, sheep, horses and rabbits. Befriend animals with their favourite foods, and use mature larger animals as mounts. Legendary creatures can also be found. Crafting offers over 600 recipes, including chests, furniture and building pieces; upgrade tools and equipment to unlock more recipes and blueprints. Build with styles ranging from wooden decorations to crystal furniture and glass walls, and customize with over 60 wallpapers and hundreds of other items. Cooking stations let you prepare dishes such as grilled fish, pies and salads to sell in your shop.

Build your home and town

Work with Frank to finish your home and commission new buildings in town. You can expand or relocate your home, or build from foundations and walls to create anything from a fishing shack to a castle. Paintbrushes let you customize its walls and floors, including with galaxy designs. Town buildings bring new residents, shops, quests, items and areas, and the townsfolk need help rebuilding after natural disasters.

The game has over 700 quests and at least 30 hours of content, with new quests each season. The dungeon has 10 levels of monsters and a boss; shooting the mushrooms at its entrance from smallest to largest activates hardcore mode.

Characters and customization

Choose from 10 characters: Fox, Bunny, Bear, Dragon, Cat, Bird, Badger, Chipmunk, Horse and Dog. Each has a distinct appearance, and over 400 skins let you customize them. Find clothing and skins in chests, earn them through quests or buy them from Splash in town. More than 150 clothing items can be dyed, including wings and bucket hats.

Play together

Invite up to three friends to play online, where you can shopkeep, tame animals and explore together. Creative lobbies support up to 32 people building and spending time together. As a server host, you can open your home to friends who can interact fully with your world, and host public or private servers.