Garten of Banban 4

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Head down where no human has been in a long time.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
Stores: Steam
Price: Paid
Rated: Mostly Positive on Steam (78% of 1,741 reviews); 4.48 of 5 from about 1,200 ratings on the PlayStation Store; 4.3 of 5 from about 2,150 reviews on Google Play
Players: 1
Made by: Euphoric Brothers
Released: 2023

On PlayStation: one of the PlayStation horror games.

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What frightens With no way to go but down, you enter levels of Banban's Kindergarten where no human has been for a long time, avoiding the mascot residents that are out to get you while you look for your missing child, with only a small drone to help.
Content: violence (esrb teen, pegi 12), monsters lunging at the player in the dark.

Garten of Banban 4 is the fourth chapter of Euphoric Brothers' first-person mascot horror series. Forced ever deeper under Banban's Kindergarten, you explore its abandoned lower levels with a drone, solve puzzles, avoid the mascot residents and keep looking for your missing child.

About Garten of Banban 4

Garten of Banban 4 is a first-person horror game by Euphoric Brothers. It came out on Steam for Windows on 11 August 2023, and Feardemic later published it on PlayStation 5 (30 May 2024), Xbox One and Series X|S (25 June 2024) and Nintendo Switch; it is also sold for iPhone, iPad and Android. It picks up where Garten of Banban 3 left off.

The store sets it up simply: there is no direction left but down. You are forced into even deeper levels of the kindergarten, heading where no human has been for quite some time, to uncover the truth behind the place and find where your child has gone.

There are no people down here, but you are never alone. The store calls it an entire underworld with friends in every corner. Some of the establishment's mascot residents are out to get you and must be avoided, while others can be befriended. Your trusty drone, steered with a small box of a lever and a red button, helps you get through, and puzzles stand between you and each next level.

The levels keep the children's style, with candy-coloured walkways, rooms painted with clouds, a castle hall lit by torches with a giant glowing mushroom, and screens counting down in dim rooms. The frights come from cartoon monsters bursting out of the dark rather than gore; it is rated ESRB Teen for violence and PEGI 12.

It is rated Mostly Positive on Steam and higher on the PlayStation Store and Google Play. The voice acting is in English, with text in fourteen more languages. Play the earlier chapters first; this one carries the story straight on.

How to play Garten of Banban 4

Buy it on Steam for Windows, or from the PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, App Store or Google Play store.
Play the first three chapters first if you want the story so far.
Explore the abandoned lower levels in first person.
Use your drone and its controller to reach and work what you cannot get to yourself.
Solve the puzzles that open the way down, avoid the residents that are hunting you and look for clues to where your child has gone.

Screenshots

A teal bird-like mascot with a wide-open yellow beak and spread purple wings lunging in front of a dark brick wall

A big grinning frog mascot in a small top hat and a little pink bird walking down a pink walkway towards the player, who holds the drone's red lever controller

An empty corner of a green room painted with white clouds, with an apple tree in a planter and a metal table and chairs

A brick castle hall lit purple, with a giant glowing blue mushroom before wooden doors, yellow banners and wall torches

A dim green room where a screen shows a countdown at 08:54 above a green blob face, the drone controller with its red button in view

A pink-lit room with a whiteboard scrawled 'Nothing is Funny enough...' above a crying doodle, barrels in front

A long empty black-and-white corridor lined with vents, its ceiling lights fading into the dark

Tips

Play the chapters in order; this one starts where Garten of Banban 3 ended.
Keep in mind the store's warning that there are friends in every corner, including rooms that look empty.
Not every resident is hostile: the console store says some can be befriended, so watch how a mascot acts before you run.
Read the walls and whiteboards; the place tells its story through what has been scrawled and hung on them.

Questions

Is Garten of Banban 4 a sequel?

Yes, it is the fourth chapter and continues where Garten of Banban 3 left off.

What platforms is Garten of Banban 4 on?

Windows PC on Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, iPhone and iPad, and Android.

How long is Garten of Banban 4?

There is no main-story figure from HowLongToBeat or the maker. TrueAchievements members put getting all 15 Xbox achievements at 2 to 3 hours, so one run of the story takes no longer than that.

How is Garten of Banban 4 rated?

Mostly Positive on Steam, with 78% of 1,741 reviews positive. PlayStation Store players give it 4.48 of 5 and Google Play users 4.3 of 5.

Is Garten of Banban 4 suitable for younger players?

It is rated ESRB Teen for violence and PEGI 12. The monsters are cartoon mascots and there is no gore in the store's pictures, but they do lunge out of the dark.