Overview
Carve and Sort: Tidy Up your Pumpkin Patch! connects creative pumpkin carving to a clear organizing goal: fill 26 alphabet-themed shelves. Players collect pumpkins, customize them at a workbench, and decide which categories suit the results. A cyclops belongs under C, while a painted moustache points toward M. Making the decoration and finding its place are equally important parts of the loop.
Developed by Dan Fury and published by Techplay for Windows, this casual simulation gives its craft project a finish line without adding a deadline. The hall tracks progress while the workbench leaves room for experimentation.
How does pumpkin carving work?
Pumpkin carving takes place at a workbench with eight tools and 24 paint colors. The knife, drill, and gouge support cutout designs, while painting offers an alternative to cutting. Shaving, smoothing, peeling, and erasing provide more ways to adjust a pumpkin rather than committing to the first face.
- Eight workbench tools
- 24 paint colors
- Suggested shelf categories
- Finished pumpkin cloning
The workbench assesses each creation and recommends suitable shelves, but players retain control over placement. Cloning preserves a finished design for repeated shelving, so a particularly good face does not need to be recreated by hand.
Hollowed pumpkins let candlelight shine through every carved hole.
Sorting depends on more than a face
The patch grows eight pumpkin varieties, including white Luminas, blue Jarrahdales, green Kabochas, and warty goblins. Shape matters alongside decoration: some pumpkins bend or lean, and others grow stacked two high. Certain shelves accept only flat, long, or extra-large pumpkins, adding physical requirements to the alphabet-based sorting puzzle.
A neighboring garden contains already-carved pumpkins waiting to be sorted, shifting attention away from the workbench and toward matching. Completing all 26 shelves triggers a finale in which the carved pumpkins return to the field and something much larger grows out of them.
Pumpkin variety and shape both affect the shelf-filling task.
Halloween atmosphere without a countdown
Carve and Sort pairs its Halloween setting with 20 swinging, jazzy tracks, with 10 unlocking as shelves fill. Music becomes another progression reward alongside the growing collection. There is no timer or failure state, and players can stop and resume later. Detailed painting and repeated adjustments therefore fit comfortably into the main task instead of competing against a countdown.
Co-op, versus, and sharing
Carve and Sort supports up to 4 players online or in split screen on one PC. Co-op makes filling the shelves a shared project, while versus turns the task into a race. Full controller support also accommodates a shared-screen setup.
Individual pumpkins fit into short share codes, letting players exchange finished designs outside a session. The companion Pumpkin Maker on the game's website provides another way to create pumpkins and load them at the workbench. That gives the cozy co-op game a useful social feature beyond playing together: a carefully carved creation can become someone else's next decoration.
