Platforms
- PCSep 1, 2021NAplayscoreNA0 Critics9.11.77K Players
- Xbox Series X|SSep 1, 2021NAplayscoreNA0 CriticsNA0 Players
- Xbox OneSep 1, 2021NAplayscoreNA0 CriticsNA0 Players
- Nintendo SwitchJun 16, 2022NAplayscore7.68 CriticsNA0 Players
13 critic reviews · 1 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Cloud Gardens is a casual, laid-back, puzzle-solving experience. That being said, it’s not the type of game that you will want to play for hours on end, but it’s entertaining in short spurts. It offers over one hundred levels, which sounds impressive, but bear in mind that many of the assets are constantly reused, making levels feel tedious after a while.
Heidi Hawes · Jul 26, 2022 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - All in all, Cloud Gardens is definitely a title that leans more towards experience than game, but its classification matters much less than how it feels to play around with its tools or the positive message it espouses. By focusing on creating and elevating green spaces, we can return our world to one where nature is in harmony and a balance is struck between humanity’s footprint and mother nature’s embrace.
Jordan Rudek · Jul 18, 2022 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - Cloud Garden is a very good puzzle game that aims to soothe where many puzzle games can cause stress. There are a few-quality-of life issues but what is on offer is well worth checking out for any puzzle fans out there. The strength of Cloud Garden is how peaceful and lonely an experience it is, justifying its purchase for anyone.
Morgan Truder · Jul 11, 2022 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - Cloud Gardens is an absolute zen-like delight that is only being held back by its clumsy and inaccurate controls. We found ourselves quite enthralled by the game’s setting and the compositions that we were trying to make. The concept of making dystopian art-like composition works, and the gameplay remains entertaining throughout the course of the game’s many levels. For its current price tag, you can’t really go wrong, but if you have no intention of playing this one in handheld mode, we suggest picking up the PC version instead.
Ibuki · Jun 16, 2022 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - Cloud Gardens is a gentle-looking, gentle-sounding toy in the “chill” genre. It has a pretty good game hung on top, participation in which is largely optional. Noio’s stated aim “to fill you with satisfaction without the frustration” is a motto that’s been observed. Your mileage will vary based on what you find satisfying and what you find frustrating, but the gameplay, the themes, the music, the sound, and the graphics are all of a piece, admirably on-message, and contribute to a unique, bittersweet atmosphere.
Roland Ingram · Jun 15, 2022 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - Cloud Gardens is a dystopian sandbox puzzle-slash-sim from Noio where you make the most of the apocalypse by making plants grow. It’s an ultra-Zen title that forces you to slow down, think about life, and do a little gardening - which is a totally welcome experience for when you need a breath of fresh air in today’s suffocating world.
Catherine Dellosa · Sep 28, 2021 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Cloud Gardens is a hypnotizingly meditative experience and perhaps one of the best chill games I’ve played all year. Its soothing soundtrack and peaceful dioramas are made more pleasant and calming with each careful move made by a contemplative player. Cloud Gardens reminds us that the apocalypse isn’t bad news for the Earth — just humanity.
Heather Johnson Yu · Sep 05, 2021 Reviewed on PCRead full review - A verdant puzzle sandbox that evolves beyond your usual feel-good, meditative experience, and leaves plenty of questions to reflect on. While puzzling can be a little obscure, and at times overly-elaborate, Cloud Gardens is more about tinkering and experimentation. An art rather than a hard science. It’ll be a while before I stop thinking about these beautiful little dioramas which value hybridisation over rewilding.
Ewan Wilson · Sep 03, 2021 Reviewed on PCRead full review - A fantastic surprise was to see that Cloud Gardens had a built-in photo mode and also its very own recording feature, which is vital to this game’s rich and striking habitats. In the recording feature and after you have made your diorama, you can watch and save your entire process from start to finish in just a few short seconds. This allows you to see your masterpiece in all its glory as it transitions from your placed objects to a fully-fledged urban decay.
Rachael Fiddis · Sep 09, 2020 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Cloud Gardens is a lovely zen experience that’ll make you hit that screenshot button more times than is healthy. Growing plants and watching life spring back into this dusty world is delightful, but the actual gameplay gets old fast. If you want something relaxing to play for thirty minutes before bed you could do much worse, but don’t expect lengthy sessions and gripping gameplay from this post apocalyptic plant growing simulator.
Lyle Carr · Jun 23, 2022 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review
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About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
In Cloud Gardens players must harness the power of nature to overgrow lo-fi scenes of urban decay and manufactured landscapes. By planting seeds in the right places, they’re able to create small overgrown dioramas of brutalism and beauty, salvaging and repurposing hundreds of discarded objects to create unique structures for nature to reclaim. Players can dive into a relaxing sandbox mode with no goals, where they are simply left to delight in their own creativity and create beautiful scenes, or take on a “campaign” of six chapters, where the task is to strike a balance between nature and the manufactured by covering each scene with salvaged objects and lush vegetation.
Developer: Noio