Earlier this year, Grow a Garden–a game created by an unknown teenage Roblox user–blew up in popularity and became one of the biggest titles of 2025 with concurrent player counts that rivaled and even exceeded Fortnite. Now, Grow a Garden is growing in Hollywood as well thanks to a new movie based on the game.
As reported by Deadline, Story Kitchen–a production company behind several video game adaptations–has signed a deal with Grow a Garden’s creators to develop it as a feature film. No plot details were disclosed, possibly because there is no story to speak of in the game itself. Instead, the report states that the film will “invite audiences of all ages into a whimsical, emotional, and unexpectedly epic story about growth, friendship, and the magic that happens when you nurture something from the ground up.”
“Grow a Garden is exactly the kind of imaginative, heartfelt world we love to adapt,” said the co-founders of Story Kitchen, Dmitri M. Johnson and Michael Lawrence Goldberg, in a statement. “[It’s] an uplifting story-world rooted in play, creativity, and community.”
Story Kitchen has had success in lining up studios for its video game projects. The Tomb Raider and Life Is Strange live-action series are both lined up at Amazon Prime Video, as are the film adaptations for It Takes Two and Split Fiction, with Sydney Sweeney set to star in the latter. Other gaming-related titles in development by Story Kitchen include Streets of Rage at Lionsgate, Sifu at Netflix, and Shinobi at Universal.
The identity of Grow a Garden’s teenage creator has not been disclosed, but management of the game was taken over by a studio called Splitting Point. Under the studio’s guidance, new updates for Grow a Garden have been released weekly.
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