Step into a quiet Japanese garden with a camera in hand. Follow foxes, deer and a shy cat, set aperture and focus by hand, hold your breath for the shot and fill a handmade album with your prints. No timers, no fail states. Just the moment.

Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored

 

About This Game

A quiet garden. A real camera.

Still Garden is a cozy first-person wildlife photography game. Wander a stylized Japanese garden of red bridges, stone lanterns, bamboo groves and hilltop shrines, where animals go about their day. There is no health bar, no enemies and no timer. You walk, you watch, and you wait for the moment.

Photography that feels like photography

  • Work the lens. Aperture from f/1.4 to f/16, a manual focus ring and real depth of field.

  • Hold your breath. Half-press the shutter to steady your hands. Wait too long and they start to shake.

  • Choose your film. Six looks, from Warm Film and Golden Hour to Monochrome. What you see in the viewfinder is what ends up on the print.

  • Earn your stamp. Every shot is judged on framing, focus and steadiness, and stamped 並 Ordinary, 良 Good or 秀 Excellent.

Animals with lives of their own

Foxes, deer, stags, horses, alpacas, a shiba and more wander, graze, sleep and play. Every pose is a photo to collect: a sleeping cat, a dog at full run, a leap with all four feet off the ground.

A shy cat lives near the tea house. Feed it, photograph it, and in time it will trust you enough to follow you along the paths.

  • Orders and an album of your own

  • Read the notice board and take on photo requests from the people of the isles.

  • Shoot with a vintage instant camera: manual focus and aperture, 2× zoom, a flash and a composition grid, all there from the first minute. Finished orders open new pages of your album.

  • Lay out your prints in a handmade album. Move them, turn them, resize them and write captions in your own hand.

At your own pace

From warm afternoons to lantern-lit evenings, the garden changes through the day. Stay as long as you like.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Translations of the store page and in-game text into other languages were made with the help of AI tools.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 8 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. Keyboard and mouse recommended.
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-10400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 5700
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 8 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. Keyboard and mouse recommended.
Review Filters