About This Demo

About This Demo

Try one day in The Clearing

The Clearing is a small game that helps you get things done in your real life. This free demo lets you play the full daily loop and see how the garden changes with your progress.

What's in the demo

• The full daily loop: set your quests at the campfire, go out and do them in real life, come back and light the fire

• One area of the garden to clear and restore

• The weeds, the weather and the day and night cycle

• A new day starts each real day, and the demo limits you to a handful of days

The demo is a small slice. The full game adds more of the garden to restore, more things to build and the full story with the fox.

How it works

Each morning you make a commitment. Choose one important thing to get done today, plus anything else you want to do. Then leave the garden and go do it.

When you come back, you light the fire, cook and eat, and the energy you've earned goes into clearing weeds and rubbish and fixing what's fallen apart. As the garden recovers, the fog lifts and the sun comes through as the weather clears.

Every bit of restoration has to come from something you did in real life.

Your progress carries over

Save data from the demo carries over to the full game. Anything you clear or build here is waiting for you when you buy it.

Who it's for

The Clearing is for people who want to build things and grow. It's especially helpful for people with ADHD who find that a visual reward makes it easier to get things done.

From the developer

I'm a solo developer with ADHD, and I make games that help me do things in the real world. My previous games were about meditation and mindfulness. This one is about getting things done. Try the demo, and if it helps, wishlist the full game.