Gardenscapes

Casual

7.5~~/10~~

Our score

★ 4.8 Google Play·500M+ installs

Reviewed by Editorial Team, ScoredApps editorial · updated 2026-10-03

Screenshots

Tulip field being harvested with a resource counter above

Shop stage with customers queuing to buy bouquets

Garden shop with the butler serving flowers to visitors

Hydrangeas being loaded onto a truck to sell

Match-three board of fruit with twenty-six moves left

Before and after view of a mansion restored

About Gardenscapes

Match-three levels pay for restoring a neglected estate: clear a board, spend the stars on a fountain or a rose bed, and watch a ruin turn into a garden. Newer stages add resource gathering and orders to fill. There is no advertising badge on Google Play, and purchases run from $0.99 to a $9.99 season pass.

Game information

DeveloperPLR Worldwide Sales Limited

Version9.9.0

Size304.6 MB (Android) · 309 MB (iOS)

Price / In-appFree

Contains adsNo

In-app purchasesYes

Content rating13+

Requires (Android)Android 5.0+

Requires (iOS)iOS 13.0+

Offline modeLoaded levels play offline; progress, events and purchases need a connection

Interface languagesNL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA + 7 more

Store rating (Google Play)4.8 from 13,330,858 ratings

Installs500M+

Updated by developer2026-09-03

Data checked2026-09-07

Specs come from the official store listings and were last checked on 2026-09-07. Developers change pricing and requirements — check the store page before installing.

Gardenscapes Review: A Ruin, a Garden, No Adverts

The Garden Is the Reason the Board Matters

Levels are swap-and-match boards of fruit with a move counter and obstacles layered on — twenty-six moves to clear a set of targets in the store example. Winning pays a star, and stars are spent on the estate: a broken fountain repaired, a path relaid, a bed of tulips planted. The before-and-after screens the game shows are the honest pitch, because a mansion with a collapsed roof becoming a yellow-and-white house is a better reward than a number going up. Austin the butler narrates it, badly, which is part of the charm.

Newer Stages Add Gathering and Orders

Alongside the classic renovation sit staged sequences with their own economy: cut tulips from a field, carry them to a shop, fill a queue of customers paying in cash, then sell hydrangeas from the back of a truck. Counters track money — 37, then 59, then 153 — and the stage is finished when the orders are. It is a small management game bolted onto a match-three, and it exists because a decade-old puzzle needs new shapes to keep half a billion installs interested. None of it requires new skills, which is presumably the point for an audience that has been playing the same boards for years.

No Adverts Inside, Kits and a Season Pass at $9.99

Google Play shows no advertising badge, so the money comes from coins and passes rather than from video breaks: the App Store lists coins at $0.99 and $1.99, a gold reserve at $2.99, kits from $1.99 to $9.99 and a season pass at $9.99. Apple rates it 13+ with frequent contests and loot boxes, on a 308.7 MB install. Against those prices, the listing counts more than 16,000 levels, and coins go on lives, boosters and extra moves when a board turns difficult, never on new parts of the garden.

Pros

Restoration gives every cleared board a visible reward
No advertising badge on the Play listing
Staged sequences break up the matching with gathering
Rated 4.8 on Play across 13.3 million reviews
A 308.7 MB install that runs on old phones

Cons

Lives limit how often you can fail a level
Season pass and kits reach $9.99 each
Apple lists loot boxes among the contents
Competitions, events and teams stop working without a connection

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Verdict

The best of the renovation match-threes, because the reward is something you can look at: a ruin becoming a house, a bare plot becoming a garden. No advertising inside is worth a lot in this genre. The reservations are familiar — lives, boosters, a $9.99 pass — and the events and teams need a connection. Skip it if five lives on a refill timer would frustrate you, or if you want puzzles without a story attached.

Gameplay7.5Standard match-three, redeemed by a restoration loop with visible progress.

Controls8.5Swap tiles with forgiving hit areas; drag-to-move in the staged sections.

Replay value8.0Thousands of levels, an estate that keeps expanding, and seasonal events.

Graphics & sound8.5Detailed, warm garden art where before-and-after genuinely reads as progress.

Monetisation6.0No adverts, but lives, boosters and a $9.99 pass pace the restoration.

7.5out of 10 · weighted average of the five scores above

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Frequently asked questions

Can it be played offline?

Levels already loaded generally play without a signal, but progress, events and the estate itself sync with the server, so extended offline play is unreliable. The game prompts to reconnect rather than continuing quietly in the background.

What does it sell?

Coins at $0.99 and $1.99, a gold reserve at $2.99, kits between $1.99 and $9.99, a golden ticket at $4.99 and a season pass at $9.99. Coins buy lives, boosters and extra moves — nothing sold unlocks part of the garden directly.

What does it need to run?

308.7 MB and iOS 13 or later, which covers phones from around 2015. The art scales down cleanly, which matters for an audience that skews older and is often playing on a handed-down device.

Is there anything social?

Teams and timed events compare progress between players and pool contributions toward shared goals, and lives can be requested from teammates. There is no head-to-head play — the competition is entirely about who cleared more levels this week.

How long is a level?

One to three minutes, with the staged gathering sequences slightly longer. Five lives sets the session, refilling on a timer, so the natural pattern is a short burst several times a day rather than a single sitting.