It can be difficult to find time to finish a video game, especially if you only have a few hours a week to play. In our biweekly column we suggest video games that can be started and finished in a weekend.The Gardens Between is about two kids, Ariana and Frendt, exploring surreal islands that are made from objects in their shared memories.

The Gardens Between Announced for PS4; Coming Late 2018. Tons of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons vibes. Developer The Voxel Agents has announced today a new title in production for the PlayStation 4 called The Gardens Between, set to release sometime late next year. The Gardens Between is one of those titles that always brightens the mood every time we hear something about it. We first wrote about the.

But you don’t actually control either character directly — you control the flow of time. At first this seems like a difficult thing to wrap your head around. But because of how you are able to observe the forward and backward movement of time, it all makes sense, as you’re able to understand the causality of events. However, when I think about how the characters might see these events unfolding, I end up giving myself a headache. But I can’t stop thinking about it. Controlling time in The Gardens Between is a bit like scrubbing through a video: tilting the analog stick to the right moves time forward, tilting it left rewinds, and not using it at all stops time completely.

And while you can never move time faster than normal speed, tilting the stick only slightly causes time to move slowly. You can also only control time so far as Ariana and Frendt are able to progress, because eventually as you move time forward either, or sometimes both, character will encounter something that stops them.Their end goal on each island is to reach a large pedestal at the top, and they have to do it while Ariana is in possession of a white orb in a lantern-like thing she carries. Mainly your job is to use your perspective outside their timeline to manipulate things to help them progress, which sometimes involves prompting the characters to interact with certain objects. But for the most part, you are using that perspective to understand and affect the causality of events.On one island you might find that Ariana can collect the white orb early on, but as she proceeds she encounters something that absorbs the orb as she passes.

Developer The Voxel Agents has announced today a new title in production for the PlayStation 4 called The Gardens Between, set to release sometime late next year.The crew during Sony’s pre-showcase presentation noted that The Gardens Between is a single-player narrative driven puzzle game that relies on its environment in order to relay most of its story. There’s only one button to be used and an interesting time mechanic is implemented to navigate the game’s Borrowers-style world. Indeed, it seems as though everything is literally larger than life in this game, with pots and garbage bins towering over the title’s two little characters.PlayStation fans can witness the debut trailer for themselves below:The trailer’s official YouTube reveals more information about the title, including the names of each protagonist.

It reads, “The Gardens Between is a surreal puzzle adventure that follows best friends, Arina and Frendt, as they fall into a mysterious world of beautiful garden islands.”If one thing’s for certain, The Gardens Between definitely gives off a lot of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons vibes. Here’s hoping it’ll make as many waves whenever it debuts in 2018 and that it’ll be just as heart-wrenching.