The Gardens Between’s time-bending puzzles will grow on Nintendo Switch

The Gardens Between is a puzzler that warps time in the name of friendship. It’s Australian indie studio The Voxel Agents’ latest game, and in addition to launching on PC and PlayStation 4, it will arrive on Nintendo Switch. It’s slated for a Q3 release later this year.

Last month, I tried The Gardens Between at Brazil’s Independent Games Festival, where the game was up for the event’s Best Art award. It has a dreamy aesthetic, its surreal landscapes drenched in soft colors, and a fitting and quirky mechanic. Rather than move main characters Arina and Frendt in the usual manner, you instead fast-forward and rewind time and watch as they proceed in a predetermined path. Many of the puzzles play with loose causality, requiring you to jump ahead in time to make a change, then return to the past to let things play out in new ways.