Hidden Memories of The Gardens Between

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• Patch Notes·7 Oct 2025Official

  Hidden Memories at MIGW: big update 🌊 and glowing reviews ⭐️!

  Hey folks!We’re timing this announcement for Day 1 of Melbourne International Games Week (Oct 1)—our favourite week of the year. MIGW is a blast: the whole city buzzes with playtests, panels, and late-night dev chats. Melbourne has shaped The Voxel Agents from day one—its festivals, meetups, and generous community helped us grow from a tiny local team into the studio behind The Gardens Between. So it feels perfect to celebrate our roots, a fresh update, and our first major discount together during the Steam MIGW event.What the press is sayingWe’ve been blown away by the coverage. Here are just a few highlights (with links if you’d like to read the full reviews):Gaming Trend – 9/10 — “Strong visual storytelling, engaging artistry, and intuitive gameplay...”The VR Realm – 8.5/10 — “Forty new and cleverly designed interactive VR-exclusive puzzles”Gaming.net – 8/10 — “More than just ‘the VR version’… bigger, better, and more immersive.”Use A Potion – 8/10 — “A lovely experience… feels right at home in VR.”Geekgasm – 8/10 — “Tactile, beautiful, and moving.”Evilgamerz – 8.3/10 — “In VR it feels like it was always meant to be.”UploadVR – 7/10 — “Hand-tracking feels like a natural fit… comfortably played with one hand.”The Elite Institute — “Puzzles balance challenge and frustration.”DoorToVR — “A heartfelt, nostalgic journey… a genuinely moving indie gem.”MKAU Gaming – 8.5/10 — “Intricate puzzles \ outstanding environmental storytelling… ”Gamers & Games – 7.8/10 — “Smart, creative puzzles… beautiful graphics and calm soundtrack.”Pixigonal — “Healed something within me”TL;DR from the coverage: a cozy, emotional VR puzzle adventure with new VR-first interactions, clever time mechanics, and a complete story you can finish over a few sittings.Today’s Update — polish, comfort & feelWe’ve been listening closely and tuning the experience across visuals, comfort, interaction and performance: Visuals & world feelNew “infinite ocean” in Garden view for a more convincing dreamlike pl...
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• Announcements·7 Aug 2025Official

  Hidden Memories of The Gardens Between is OUT NOW!

  Hey Legends, I'm so excited to announce that our game that we've been working on for so long is finally OUT!We've been working on The Gardens Between since 2012, and this latest instalment in VR I can honestly say is pretty bloody amazing (It's also a massive expansion of the game, but I'll leave that for a different post). Like okay... the original game released in 2018 was already beautiful, I'm just a programmer on the game.. I've been lucky enough to work with some very talented artists. But there's something about this game in VR that is a whole 'nother experience entirely.The first time I put The Gardens Between on a headset it was just a big island in the middle of my room. I sat down cross-legged on the floor, and it was like "OKAY - this is how it's SUPPOSED to be experienced" - sitting on the floor and being surrounded by this mystical place connected me to my childhood self in a way the flat-screen version of the game never could. Which is exactly what the game is supposed to be about!Now, getting the game to actually run on a headset at 4k 90FPS and still retain all of it's original beauty was a multi-year process of continual optimisation, shader refinement, and full render-stack rearchitechuring (yep that's a word). But boy is it worth it.Stop reading here. Just go play it. Seriously!
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• Announcements·14 Jul 2025Official

  Release Date Announced!

  We are delighted to announce that Hidden Memories of The Gardens Between will launch August 7th, 2025!When we first created The Gardens Between, it was a love letter to the friendships we cherished in our childhood, the adventures that shaped us, and the bonds that defined us. Seven years later, with our own children experiencing their own bittersweet friendships, the game has taken on a profound new meaning. Hidden Memories of The Gardens Between, our expansive VR edition reflects this deeper, more personal exploration.A brand-new addition to our story is Arina’s diary. Introduced for the first time in Hidden Memories, the diary began as a gift from her dad when they moved house: a blank canvas to capture a new chapter of life. Soon, it grew beyond Arina alone. After meeting her new neighbor, Frendt, the diary became their shared record of adventures, secrets, and discoveries. By the end of this expanded journey, the diary symbolizes the powerful and fleeting moments of childhood friendships—the kind we remember forever, even after goodbyes.Creating the diary was deeply personal for us. It’s filled not just with drawings, but with Arina’s moods, dreams, and emotions. Each page captures her evolving world, illuminated by Frendt’s friendship. We poured our own memories and our children’s current experiences into these pages, reflecting the intense feelings of joy, excitement, and heartache that accompany growing up and moving on.A Story RetoldGameplay in Hidden Memories also became a way to deeply connect players to Arina and Frendt with experiences only possible in VR. The diary isn't just static art—it’s interactive. Now you can physically hold objects that were once background details, each one infused with meaning and a story waiting to be uncovered. Remember the reckless joy of painting outside the lines, the thrill of inventing your own board games on rainy days, or deciphering secret codes at the museum? We’ve captured those moments, inviting you to relive chi...
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• Announcements·5 Jun 2025Official

  Hidden Memories of The Gardens Between Announced!

  Bend time at will, as childhood best friends Arina and Frendt journey across islands filled with precious mementos from the seminal moments of their time together. Explore a captivating narrative through the lens of virtual reality and solve clever puzzles. Embrace a tale retold in a new light, with twice the content in an illustrious, fully remastered package. https://shared.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3084870/extras/TGBVR_Teaser_Final_V32.gif?t=1749060730 We’re so excited to finally share something we’ve been working on for a long time - Hidden Memories of The Gardens Between is a reimagining of our time-bending puzzle game The Gardens Between rebuilt from the ground up for virtual reality. This isn't just a VR port. It's The Gardens Between as you've never seen it before, with double the content and entirely new ways to interact with Arina and Frendt's story. Making this game has been a really special continuation of the journey we started all the way back in 2011 with the first prototype of a “Minority Report” inspired time manipulation game. Since then, at least three million people have played The Gardens Between! Members of our original team have scattered throughout the globe and gone on to be part of making so many incredible games. We’re proud that almost the entire original development team reunited for Hidden Memories in some form, bringing the same care and thoughtfulness that made the game special back into this project along with a wealth of new experience. We’ve also been joined by new contributors who’ve brought fresh perspectives and new ideas to The Gardens Between world. Here’s what you can expect from Hidden Memories of The Gardens Between: A fully VR-native experience: We've completely transformed how you interact with the world. Reach out and physically manipulate time itself. A new story: Hidden Memories of The Gardens Between begins two decades after the original story, as Frendt is in the midst of moving. Upon di...
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