Jar of Gnomes

Pick. Merge. Jam.
In Jar of Gnomes, a crowd of tiny Gnomlings harvests an allotment garden for you. Berry bushes sprout on their own. You pick the first berries by hand, and soon the Gnomlings carry the fruit to a bubbling Magic Cauldron – and in there, two matching fruits merge into the next better one. A redcurrant turns splendid, then golden, then enchanted, two enchanted redcurrants make a blueberry, and far up the chain waits the giant pumpkin.

You decide where the colony works: buy Gnomlings and upgrades in the Allotment Row and feed the best bushes compost. A run never ends on its own. When it slows down, you make jam: the harvest turns into jam jars, and Mr Krause finally mows the lawn.Every jar counts
Jars are yours to keep. Spend them in the Gnome Village under the compost heap, a web of 41 nodes in five workshops, and rearrange them for free between runs. Some nodes only open up once you have earned an achievement. Most of them show up front roughly how many more jars per run they will bring. And every jar you have ever earned adds +10% harvest, so the next garden always grows a little faster.Features
Hundreds of Gnomlings on screen at once

A 6 × 6 Magic Cauldron and 15 fruit varieties in four qualities

Six buildings in the Allotment Row, from the Summerhouse to the Throwing Range

Giants who carry almost five times as much as a Gnomling

Throwing: Gnomlings fling fruit into the cauldron, and some of it merges in midair

A Compost Catapult that feeds your bushes while you watch

"Buy all" for the later game

Grandpa Mossbeard explains everything once, then leaves you in peace

17 Steam achievements and a fruit collection
Made for the couch, too
Full controller support, built for Steam Deck (1280 × 800)

Mouse and keyboard work just as well

Calm effects that really switch off shaking and flashing

Choose how much fruit is shown on screen

Keeps running while minimised, saves to Steam Cloud

English and German
Early Access
Jar of Gnomes is in Early Access. Planned next: telling your Gnomlings which bushes to prefer, compost and builder Gnomlings, Garden Tricks to pick during a run, new gardens and a grand finale at the regional garden show. What comes when will also depend on your feedback.Credits
Music: "Glitter Blast", "Morning", "Life of Riley" and "Evening" by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0. Full credits are in the game under Settings → Credits.