Desktop Garden

[h1]#tinygamereviews[/h1] [code]borderline malware. cursor becomes lagged (controlled? idk) whenever it's running, no matter what device is in use[/code] [list] [*][b][u]Overall Score[/u][/b]: 1/5 [/list] [hr][/hr] [h1][b]Curator: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42137521/]Nostalginauts[/url][/b][/h1]

[i]Desktop Garden[/i] works like any other desktop companion: the plant(s) sit on the bottom of your screen. And the more you type, the more the plants grow. Each time a plant reaches full growth, you get a new one. It's pretty simple. However, I have pretty mixed opinions on this and I'm going to start positive for this review. The idea is fun. I really do like the style and I think it adds a fun thing to something that is usually boring or empty on your screen. The game also doesn't seem to hurt my battery usage (I'm not using anything powerful to run this, so low-medium laptops should work with this game). But, there are a few things I really don't like. The shelf constantly being on the side, with no way to turn it off (only slide it over, but the pull tab thing is still very visible), is super annoying. I get it's there so that the plants can keep growing without them being on display, but maybe there could be a feature to just hide the shelf and be fine with hidden plants not progressing? On the topic of stuff being annoying on your screen, the plants get super big, super fast. Like, I can't really keep more than 2 bigger ones on my screen without stuff on the bottom bei…

The only way to describe this is... An app with a plant sitting in the background that "grow" by "key logging"... not sure why someone would approach such a bold move risking their "game" flagged by antivirus simply by logging their user's key strokes even when the app isn't in the focus... and whether or not this is "safe" isn't important, because from a user's view with no professional knowledge to break down what the app is doing or whether or not it's sending out the logged key strokes to a server somewhere, there's no way a normal user can tell just by the look of it... which leads to the next phase, should we trust it? Which sadly, is a no, unless there's more data showing that it's safe, but from its current user base, we can't tell yet. And based on that, can't really recommend either.

it does what its supposed to but i would like to be able to move it to different screens at some point

broken, absolutely broken. shelf handle won't spawn. it flashes then disappears. no amount of messing with settings or clearing the game data works. broken, waste of time game. i spent over an hour trying to make it work. dont waste your time.

game really needs a monitor selection option. stuck on my second monitor with no way to move it. unfortunate.