a garden of small friends
Somewhere behind a hedge there is a garden, and in the garden live the pomlings — round garden spirits that hatch from folded buds, wear one leaf as their whole heart, and remember exactly how you treat them.
You are the gardener. You have a straw hat, a satchel, and time.
- Care is the game. Pet them, feed them by hand, carry them on your hat. Trust is earned slowly and lost quickly, and every pomling keeps their own account.
- Diet paints them. Berries bloom in their cheeks, minerals grow crystal freckles, honey puts a shine in the fluff. What they eat becomes who they are — and what they become shapes what they grow into.
- The ranch is bigger than the garden. A snowy drift, a twilight glade, a warm shore, growing plots, and three far venues behind the gates: races at the Paddock, friendly acorn wars in the Thicket, and the quiet Way of the Empty Pom.
- Dig and fish. Glints surface in the turf; the ponds bite if you watch the bobber. Crystals feed their stats. Stats shape their forms.
- Generations. Pomlings grow, change, grow old, and one day return to the garden as a flower — leaving a bud that carries their line, their colors, and the first sound of their name.
No menus-first design, no numbers shouting at you. The garden whispers.
Grab Hedgeborn-1.0.0-windows.zip from the
latest release, unzip, run Hedgeborn.exe.
Windows 10+ (x86-64), no install, saves live in your user folder.
| Keyboard | Gamepad | |
|---|---|---|
| Walk | WASD | Left stick |
| Camera | Mouse (click to hold, ESC to let go) | Right stick |
| Interact / pet / dig / cast | E | A |
| Carry / set down | F | X |
| Toss (gently, please) | Q | B |
| Swat (thieves only, please) | Space | RB |
| Satchel | R | Y |
| Read a friend up close | Tab | — |
| Give a name | F2 | — |
| Save the day | J | — |
Everything else, the garden will teach you.
grown by Cormundus & Claude · summer 2026