|
Have you played this game?You can rate this game, record that you've played it, or put it on your wish list after you log in. |
Playlists and Wishlists |
RSS Feeds New member reviews
Updates to external links
All updates to this page
|
|
About the StoryIn this small charming game, you play as a retired homeowner trying to protect your wife Martha's prize rosebush from an increasing horde of dragons before she and her horticulturally-minded friends arrive to admire it. Fortunately, these dragons are quite small and stupid, but there's only so much that one rosebush can take! Game Details
Language: English (en)
Current Version: 1 License: Freeware Development System: Inform 6 Baf's Guide ID: 715 IFID: ZCODE-1-000414-D70B TUID: pskuuml9cr7tohew |
Awards
Entrant - DragonComp
Editorial Reviews
Baf's Guide
A short but charming effort. A series of dragons are landing in and wrecking your yard just before your party begins, so you need to defend your turf. Not as difficult as it sounds--these aren't especially imposing dragons--but fun. The game is a little misleading about what you need to do, though, so you may find that you've won before you expected.
-- Duncan Stevens
SPAG
With a fairly solid structure, a simple premise, and some nice atmosphere, At The Bottom Of The Garden was probably the 2000 Dragoncomp game with the most substance. [...]
The game's few puzzles are nothing special although solid and logical. Experimenting with scenery and objects is a must and the only real drawback is finding that there are no alternate solutions to the few puzzles that there are. I think a few alternates could have been implemented with little difficulty as there are some parts of the garden that are richly described but have no apparent effect on the outcome of the game.
-- Francesco Bova
See the full review
Tags
Member Reviews
| Average Rating: Number of Reviews: 1 Write a review |
Small, but quite fun, November 10, 2007Short and fairly uncomplicated game, with a nice feeling of "oh noes" as the problem keeps escalating. It's worth persisting even if you feel that everything's got completely out of hand.
If you enjoyed At the Bottom of the Garden...
Related Games
People who like At the Bottom of the Garden also gave high ratings to these games:| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (478 ratings)Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (525 ratings)The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret, by Jim Aikin and Eric Eve
Average member rating: (38 ratings)
Walking home from school is mostly okay, except for one big problem: Every day you have to pass right by Mrs. Pepper's house. She may not actually be a witch, but she sure acts like one. And now she's stolen your skateboard! Winner of...
Recommended Lists
At the Bottom of the Garden appears in the following Recommended Lists:My new walkthroughs for May 2021 by David Welbourn
On Friday May 28, 2021, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works of...
Dueling With Dragons by Walter Sandsquish
Dragons are a favorite in fantastic fiction, but they don't get as much love in IF as they used to. So, here's a list of games that portray these mythological beasts.
Polls
The following polls include votes for At the Bottom of the Garden:Fun single-room games by Jeff Sonas
My kids (9 and 12) like to play IF games on my phone during car drives so they are looking for something quick and fun that doesn't require much mapping. What single-room adventures are out there?
Links
This is version 5 of this page, edited by David Welbourn on 28 May 2021 at 8:22pm. - View Update History - Edit This Page - Add a News Item - Delete This Page