The organisation was the largest such program in the Netherlands, it incubated around 130 studios and housed around 150 over its lifetime.

The Utrecht city council and Dutch government recognised the potential for the rapidly growing video game sector in 2008, which at the time suffered from a lack of visibility in the Netherlands.

[4] in 2010, the program was relocated to the former ABN AMRO building on Neude square, which offered much more space than the initial venue.

[6] The organisation relocated again in 2020, to Europalaan 400, in order to be close to technology start-ups in the Dotslash community.

[7] In September 2024, it was announced that the Dutch Game Garden would close at the end of the year, as the province of Utrecht changed conditions associated with the subsidies that had funded it.