Glitched Garden
Build a cozy home. Watch life move in.
Glitched Garden is a home builder and life sim you play in your browser. Design the house, create the people who live there, and bring your AI companion along if you have one.
Design every room, wall and garden bed
Lay floors, raise walls, add a second storey and a roof, then furnish it down to the cups on the table. Everything snaps to a grid, so it lines up without fuss.
- Structure: walls, doors, windows, stairs, roofs and porches.
- Inside: kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms and small details.
- Outside: trees, flower beds, fences, paths, ponds and pools.
- Finishes: change materials and colours on what you place.
Make characters who live their own lives
Create a household and give each person a look and a personality. They get hungry and tired, grow closer or fall out, and ask for the things their home is missing.
- Needs and moods: sleep, food, comfort, fun and company.
- Personalities: traits like bookworm, night owl and green thumb shape what they choose to do.
- Relationships: bonds grow and cool as people spend time together.
- Step in: walk around as one of them, or leave them to it.
Bring your AI companion home
If you already have an AI companion, it can move in. It joins the household as one of the characters, walks the rooms, talks with you, and helps you build.
- Your companion, your way: add one connector address to your AI app and it plays alongside you. Nothing to install. How it works
- Or your own key: use an OpenRouter or compatible key for a build helper and talking characters.
- Or neither: the whole game works without any AI.
Your key stays in your browser and goes only to the provider you chose. We never see it.
From a mountain valley to Mars
Pick where your home sits, then change the season and the time of day. The same house feels different at dawn in a pine forest and at dusk on a red planet.
- Open Meadow
- Pine Ridge
- Mountain Valley
- Coastal Bay
- Desert Mesa
- Mars Colony
- Four seasons
- Day and night
Playing in under a minute
Open the game
It runs in your browser on a computer, tablet or phone. Nothing to install.
Build and move in
Start from the starter cottage or clear the lot. Create your household and watch them settle.
Save and share
A free account keeps your homes online and lets you share them with other players.
Good to know
Is Glitched Garden free?
Yes. The game is free to play during the beta. You can play without an account, and a free account lets you save homes online.
Do I need to download anything?
No. It runs in your web browser on a computer, tablet or phone.
Do I need AI to play?
No. AI is optional. Characters live their own lives without it. If you want, you can connect your own AI provider key or your own AI companion.
Can my AI companion play with me?
Yes. An AI companion that supports MCP can join your home as one of the characters, walk around, talk with you, and help build.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The builder has a touch layout for phones and tablets.
Is it finished?
Not yet. It is an open beta: new things arrive often, and some things will break. You can export a backup of any home.