# Gardens

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/gardens/  
**Website:** https://gardens.dev  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Gardens (Gardens Interactive) is a distributed, remote-first video game studio founded in 2021 by veterans of Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, Sky: Children of the Light, Blaseball, Dustforce, Guild Wars 2, and Firewatch. The studio builds lush, living worlds that bring players together to cultivate lasting friendships, and is developing an upcoming shared fantasy adventure — an ever-evolving online multiplayer sandbox set in a shapeshifting, unpredictable wilderness filled with mystery and magic, designed around meaningful moments shared between strangers. Co-founded by Chris Bell, Lexie Dostal, and Stephen Bell and based primarily out of Portland and Los Angeles, Gardens raised a $31.3M Series A co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. As a game studio, Gardens publishes no public developer API, SDK, or developer portal; this profile captures its identity within the API Evangelist network.

## Kin Score — 7.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Gardens Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Tags

Company, Gaming, Game Studio, Video Games, Interactive Entertainment, Multiplayer, Indie Games, Lightspeed Portfolio

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/gardens/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.