The Disturbing Lore Of Lily's Garden

Game Theory

The Game Theorists

Games, Leisure

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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We've talked about how mobile games are weird in a previous episode. Well, this is a game that proves it. Welcome to the disturbing world of Lily's Garden! A place where our titular heroine is up to more than just tending to some plants. This game is DARK! Which means, of course, that I needed to cover it. It is time to untangle the mystery of Lily's Garden.

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0:00.0	Matthew, what are you doing? It's late. I know, it's just after a long day of theorizing I needed to unwind with a mindless mobile game, you know? Are you playing Lily's Garden?
0:13.6	Isn't that that game that's like random tile matching
0:16.9	with those crazy ads?
0:18.6	What do you mean crazy ads? ads. There. It's probably just a marketing ploy. Oh, good night.
0:34.0	Oh, good night.
0:35.0	Oh, Matthew.
0:38.0	I need to know, Stephanie! Stephanie! Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that isn't afraid to get down and dirty with hidden lore.
1:08.0	And I know what you're all thinking, why? Why on earth am I choosing to talk about the random tile matching mobile game Lily's Garden?
1:16.0	I hadn't really ever heard about this game until we did our episode on why mobile games might be illegal.
1:22.1	In that episode we talked about potential false
1:24.3	advertising used by mobile games and all of a sudden my comments section and my Twitter
1:28.9	blew up with requests for Lily's Garden. So I started looking into it, but then I got busy with other projects and it just kind of fell at the bottom of the pile. That was until Biju Mike called us out in his video reacting to our Grub Hub episode. And would you look at that? We've suddenly come full circle. The fires of theory were burning again, and I got to work. So here we are. Don't say I don't do anything for you. As I said earlier, Lily's Garden is a surprise surprise tile matching mobile game.
1:56.0	These mini games earn you currency in the game, which in this case are Stars.
2:00.0	And with them you get to redesign Lily's new estate from its building to its, you guessed it, gardens.
2:06.0	But the reason we're all here is not because this is the game of the century,
2:10.0	it's because of the ads.
2:12.0	That's right, this is the part of Lily's Garden that set the internet ablaze.
2:16.0	There's drama, there's heartbreak, there's sexual implication,
2:20.0	all the things that keep us going back to those trash TV reality shows.
2:24.0	This game is us in to draw us in and boy am I in it now.
2:28.0	But something bothered me.
2:30.0	It's the same thing that was bothering most of you,
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