---
title: "Gnome Venture"
url: "https://aigamehub.app/en/games/i-m-not-a-programmer-i-built-a-cosygardening-game-with-claud-68cacf"
source: "https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/comments/1x6pzc3/im_not_a_programmer_i_built_a_cosygardening_game"
source_type: "reddit"
author: "AppleJosh8"
author_handle: "AppleJosh8"
category: "Casual"
categories: ["casual", "simulation"]
tags: ["browser", "cozy", "gardening", "gnome", "incremental"]
added: "2026-10-16T17:25:54.019Z"
updated: "2026-10-16T17:25:54.019Z"
locale: "en"
content_locale: "en"
---

# Gnome Venture

A cozy gardening incremental game where you play as a garden gnome: grow crops, care for soil fertility and soil life, cook and craft, travel between 14 regions, meet townsfolk with daily routines, play small daily mini-games, and submit your garden or crops for monthly judging. The author says it is free with no ads or payments.

## Description

Gnome Venture is a browser-playable cozy gardening game by a solo developer. You play as a garden gnome, growing crops and managing soil fertility, soil life and no-till beds that earn grades, plus cooking and crafting. Roads connect 14 regions through a mycelium network, with wilds to explore, 54 townsfolk with daily routines, daily mini-games such as Mushroom Sweeper and matching, an in-game Almanac, monthly Garden of the Month and crop judging, and boss fights. Reported content includes 365 plants, about 1,100 items, 107 recipes and an 884-page in-game Almanac. The author states the game is free, with no ads or payments, and built with AI assistance (Claude).

## Original post

I'm not a programmer. I built a cosygardening game with Claude. Would love feedback.

I used to be a massage therapist and I've never coded, but I always wanted a game that could help me through the winter: slow, cosy, check in whenever you wish, laid back... So I built Gnome Venture ( www.gnomeventure.ca ) with Claude (opus 5.5, haiku 5.6, sonnet). You are a garden gnome, you grow crops and care for the soil (fertility, soil life, no-till beds that earn grades), cook and craft. You can walk the roads between 14 regions through the mycellium network of earth. Wander off into the wilds, make friends with the townsfolk, and play little daily games like Mushroom Sweeper, matching. Help Wren complete her Almanac project, and unlock all the world areas. Submit your garden for Garden of the Month, or individual crops you grow to be judged monthly. Fight bosses deep in the wilds... and more! AI Disclosure: I play on my phone, so I'd send Claude screenshots of what looked wrong or what I wanted, usually with "thoughts?" Claude would come back with a proposal and a critique (what's good, what could break, the numbers), and only build after I said go. Claude Opus led, for bigger jobs it split the work between cheaper Haiku helpers and then reviewed and fixed their code. Once it ran a 10-agent review of the whole game, which found real bugs. Every update was tested like a player would: a fresh install, a bot that clicks every button (around 1,500 pages), and phone screenshots. Then it handed me a small zip I upload from my own admin panel. I'm on a tight budget, so it kept the use of helpers low and did small fixes itself. Size today: 365 plants, about 1,100 items, 107 recipes, 54 townsfolk with daily routines, an 884-page in-game Almanac, and about 26,000 lines of PHP. Mostly, I wanted a way to garden over the coming winter. Its so cold! It's free, with no ads or payments. I'd love feedback from anyone. 🌱   submitted by   /u/AppleJosh8   to   r/incremental_games [link]   [comments]