Goblins Without Green Thumbs

The neighbours' garden looks so much better than yours, and it's not even the biggest of your problems!

GOBLINS WITHOUT GREEN THUMBS is a very tiny visual novel made in Narrat by Ether and Tootkin for the NARRAT JAM 2025. 

It features 5-10 minutes of mid-stakes gardening actions with goblins, a few consequence-free choices, and one ending. 

Content warning: the game displays two zoomed-in, unskippable pictures of bugs. 

Controls

This game requires a mouse or a keyboard to play.

Use the mouse, the ENTER key or the SPACE key to move forward in the story.

Use the mouse to choose your dialogue option.

A "Settings" menu is available with a few accessibility options, such as text size, text speed, three different font sets including one with OpenDyslexic, and other options. 

Please play in full-screen for a better experience! Look for the little button to the bottom right of the game window to toggle full-screen. 

Thank you!

Thank you so much for playing GOBLINS WITHOUT GREEN THUMBS! 

If you'd like to support us in creating more silly, heartwarming, uplifting, cute goblin stories, you can do so by 

• telling your friends about our work,
  
• giving the game a rating,
  
• leaving us a comment,
  
• and/or checking our other works!

Wait... they're on a t-shirt?!

Tootkin, who drew all the art for the game, has now opened a t-shirt shop! It features Hulda and Onni among Tootkin's other characters (all very good gobbos).

Check it out and bring your favorite goblins along everywhere!

https://tee-zr.com/store/tootkin/

Credits

Made with Narrat by Liana Pigeot, released under a MIT license.

Written and programmed by Ether. All rights reserved.

Art and favicon by Tootkin. All rights reserved.

Photographs by: Tanya Barrow,  Sandi Hunter, Gualberto Valderrama, Henry Lai, Robin Wersich, Slim Mars, Stella De Smit, Oleh Holodyshyn, released under an Unsplash License. (The game also includes a photograph by Ether, all rights reserved.)

Music "Serene Breeze [CC0]" by Anima and Animus, no rights reserved Ø (CC0 license).

Fonts used are Shantell Sans and Deja Vu Sans for the sans-serif (default) font set, Averia Gruesa Libre and Fraunces for the serif font set, and OpenDyslexic for the OpenDyslexic set. Please check the relevant fonts for their specific licenses.