1.0 left Early Access today. The day-one hotfix (1.0.1) landed within six hours: Greenhouse softlock fixed, Poppy's self-stun fixed, two crash reports closed.
1.0 LAUNCH DAY · GATES OPEN
Garden of Witches
ROGUELIKE ACTION · FAN NIGHT-WATCH
The witches ran wild. Somebody has to write down how to round them up.
Start the Beginner Guide⏱ How long to beat
🏆 Main story (5 districts) 18-22h·💯 100% 35h+
Guide built on 1.0 launch day; all witch kits (incl. hidden Mirror Sil), relic synergies and post-game run 35h+.
⭐ Steam reviews
Very Positive ·1,506 reviews · 92% positive
“Game is aesthetically pleasing and gameplay is fun. It gets surprisingly hard the deeper you go into the chapters.” — Steam review, 6 👍
Steam →What is this game?
Official store description:
"Garden of Witches is a cute roguelike action game full of danger. Help the protagonist, Sil, as she tries to round up her unruly fellow witches and save the Garden."
Team Tapas' action roguelike left Early Access today (August 28, 2026). Five witches with genuinely different kits, a five-district garden that rebuilds itself by moon phase, and a day-one patch that nerfed the EA lash meta within hours of launch. Very Positive, 1.4k reviews accumulated across EA — and not a single 1.0 guide anywhere yet.
"EA veterans tell you the lash is dead; day-one players tell you it's strong. Both are right — they were never playing the same game."
— Steam review, launch day
Play it now · Garden Nightwatch
No page jump: orbit familiars auto-attack, gather dew, draft spells three-at-a-choice — the roguelike draft, playable in 90 seconds.
WASD/arrows to move, or hold-drag. Familiars auto-attack; dew levels you up, pick 1 of 3. Three hearts.
Full page: rules · night boardNight-Watch Board — what launch day is arguing about
The lash nerf (−18% attack speed) has split the returning EA players: "the whip is dead" vs "the whip was doing the playing for you." Day-1 poll: 41% still top-tier, 37% fair, 22% declared dead.
Hidden witch Mirror Sil found 9h12m after launch by Steam user mothkeeper — full moon, reflecting pool, zero relics. The pool was in the EA build all along. Nobody stood still in it.
First any% speedrun: 41:22 (Poppy, wildfire). The thread argues sub-40 needs a throne-break route.
5+1
Playable witches
five plus the hidden Mirror Sil
22
Main rooms
fixed five-district spine, seeded layouts
16
Relics
including 2 secret drops
41:22
Day-1 any% record
Poppy wildfire
Garden Index
Beginner Guide
First five hours, the 1.0 changelog, four new-player traps.
Witch Codex
All five witches' kits dissected — plus the hidden Mirror Sil.
Builds
Four archetypes and the launch-day tier fights — we record the arguments, not just the answers.
Five Districts
From Rose Forecourt to Thorn Throne: hazards, secrets, moon phases.
Bosses
Every boss: tells, working cheese, honestly rated difficulty.
Relic Codex
16 relics and their synergies — which combos are the meta answer.
Achievements
12 total, 4 hidden — the hidden four are a second storyline.
Mini-Game: Garden Nightwatch
The roguelike 3-choice draft, playable. Free in browser.
Why does this game need a guide?
- 1
EA knowledge expired today: 1.0 changed lash speed, the dew economy, co-op scaling — and added a hidden witch. Old guides are now misinformation.
- 2
Kits are deep and builds fork hard: four archetypes with real trap choices, and the tier list is being fought over in real time.
- 3
Secrets are lunar: moon phases rebuild districts, and the best unlocks require standing still in the right pool at the right sky.
- 4
Bilingual coverage is a blank — this is the first systematic manual in any language, written on launch day.
