The Garenburg series spans multiple games and pieces of media, so this aims to help give a simple order for playing through if you want the full experience!
Please note that most of the games in the series are standalone, so you don't necessarily need to play by this order. You can go through things however you like and however you choose!
As of September 2025, there are two main titles, two smaller entries, one short spinoff, and a bunch of novellas and short stories that give more background on the world. You can find links to all of these via the projects page, or the novellas site.
Main Titles
Smaller Entries
Spinoffs
Novellas / Short Stories
Other Works
Please note that these all have varying degrees of quality; they were all made over several years, the more recent stuff are a bit better!
One important thing to note is that, as mentioned before, this series is standalone. You can go any order you like, skip titles, or only do one specific one. You don't need to play or read everything. But if you want a "full" experience, and the best entry point, then here's a good way to start!
You can start at either Garenburg Woods or Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird. The latter is the "second Garenburg game" but probably a better place to start since it's a much higher quality game than the former. Either will work, so you can go off what you want!
If you want to start with Garenburg Woods, you can go in order of...
If you want to start with Garenburg Penitence: The Riflebird, you can go in order of...
There are still a few other small works and the like not included in this list, but these are the major ones and ones recommended to experience. You can then optionally go and experience any of the other works not listed here that are in the overview.
In regards to Heinous History and Temporal Timeline, while they aren't necessarily spoilers, they do give a lot of extra context and information that may be best once you are done with everything else.
But, ultimately, you can freely jump between most works of this series. They are made to be standalone and act standalone, even if they have numerous linking ties between each other. Go with what you feel like!
This isn't necessarily recommended, but if you really want to, you can go by this list. It will also mention what is and isn't optional. The optional stuff are the things that are significantly lesser in quality and less relevant to everything else.
The main issue with this route are some things will make a little less sense or make other parts make too much sense just because of some delays in when some projects were released, so it's a bit of a rough way to do it. And the optional stuff has more issues than not; Limp for example is a very, very dated game with poorly designed puzzles and a plot that makes barely any sense. Proceed at your own risk!
Some are very loosely connected like It Is Too Dark and Unicode but they are so loosely connected that you aren't going to miss anything, and are vastly different kinds of games. Twisted Mirror has no story at all, so it's even less relevant to trying to experience the plot. Going by the recommended order will give the best experience.