Cloud Gardens is an indie developed by Noio, released 1 September 2021 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Mac.
What Cloud Gardens is
Cloud Gardens is an indie game developed by Noio and released in 2021. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas. 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…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Cloud Gardens holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Cloud Gardens launched on 1 September 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the Xbox Series's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Deathloop, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut.
Cheats and codes
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Official trailer
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