

Zen Puzzle Garden is a geometric puzzle game set in Japanese rock gardens. The goal of each puzzle is to rake all of the sand without turning corners or breaking raked lines. Play through 64 carefully designed puzzles set across 4 seasons, or design and share your own gardens with the built-in editor. If you thought that you could never reach enlightenment by playing a computer game? Well... you're probably right. You can, however, fry your brain by trying to solve seemingly impossible puzzles that take place in a relaxing zen garden.
Puzzledigital distributionhumble bundlejapanese culturePC (Microsoft Windows)
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Character
Warm, intimate, contemplative and plot-driven.
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Developer
- lexaloffle
- Publisher
- lexaloffle
- Released
- February 1, 2003
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
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