The Snowgardens

A game about getting lost and discovering secrets.

The Snowgardens is a game made in Dreams with a heavy focus on visuals and atmosphere. Players control a child who finds themselves stranded on a beautiful but abandoned archipelago, once home to an ancient civilization and space-time altering technology.

Winner - Student Game Award - 2021 FreePlay Awards
Winner - Best Art Direction - 2021 IMPY Awards
Finalist - Excellence in Visual Art - 2021 FreePlay Awards

In 2021, The Snowgardens received the award for best art direction at the 2nd IMPY awards, an awards ceremony run by Media Molecule that celebrates the best user-generated content from a pool of over 1.5m users.

 The Snowgardens was also a finalist for Excellence in visual art and the winner of the Student Game Award at the 2021 Freeplay Awards, the world’s longest-running independent games festival, located in Melbourne, Australia.

The game places players on an abandoned archipeligo once home to a mysterious ancient civalisation. On their journey, they'll have to use a bow an arrow that has teleportation properties to solve puzzels and traverse the island using time altering devices to shed light on the civilisations downfall, and hopefully escape.

If you have access to a playstation system and own a copy of Dreams you can play The Snowgardens for free by adding it to your queue or searching it in game.