Is the garden DLC worth buying?

[Existential Hope]

So far I have the base game and the luxury DLC. I'm a perfectionist when placing things, and the overgrown grass and weeds have always bothered me.
A lot of the negative reviews on the store page are from 2021, so I don't know if the complaints have since been addressed through updates.

[Puzzler]

I have all Dlc's , all of them worth it believe me

[icke]

☝️ I agree. They all have their perks and are a lot of fun.

[MizMeow1]

Is it worth buying? Well, that will depend on your perspective. I think it is worth it, but you may or may not agree. The grass drove me nuts, too. I mean, who would sell a house that has been fixed up without cutting the grass? However, the grass is the least of the options with this DLC. You do get a few more houses with it. Not a lot, but a few. You do, though, get to fix up the yard and/or deck. You can place pools as well as a variety of plants. To me, it is worth it. Only you can decide if it worth it to you, though.

[tatiana]

I'm in two minds about this one.

The DLC adds the Gardening skill track and 3 Browser properties.

It also lets you enter any property into a Gardening competition which increases the sale price by between 10-50%. However, it's not very clear which exact criteria the gardens are scored by (they are different depending on the type of garden) so getting a score of 4 or 5 stars is a bit hit and miss.

You do get an outdoor selling tool, which lets you sell bushes for good money, and an axe to clear trees. The lawnmower takes about 3 short email orders to unlock, which take about an hour in total.

Also, the gardens are big, so I personally find them too grindy. However, taking your time with them might double or even triple your playtime with each property, so it's excellent value in that regard! Ask yourself whether you'll find it fun though.

The YouTuber Toogii seems to have found something that either an excellent compromise or a bit of a cheat, depending on how you look at it. He mows the lawn, removes weeds and molehills and puts the property up for a gardening competition without doing anything else to the garden (not planting anything or putting in any garden structures or furniture). This normally increases the property price by 5-10% with very little effort. Although it seems like a waste of a good DLC that lets you do so much more...