It's a calm gardening sim that celebrates how plants can reclaim abandoned urban ruins. Solve organic puzzles in a serene 3D space.Ĭreate to your heart’s content in creative mode. Cloud Gardens developed by Noio is very much team-plant in the post-apocalypse.
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Players can download looping videos of their completed dioramas and share them with other gardeners from across the internet, and our Discord server has a lively community of gardeners. This is a chill game where the primary goal is to delight in your own creativity.
Plant your seeds in the right place to create small overgrown. It is a relaxing experience that takes you from one scene to the next while encouraging creativity and coming up with your own solutions. In Cloud Gardens the player overgrows lo-fi scenes of urban decay and manufactured landscapes. Partly a gardening simulator, partly a dystopian landscape builder, and partly a puzzle game that is both satisfying and without frustration. Adding objects will encourage lush vegetation to grow, but each object must be covered in foliage in order to proceed.Ĭloud Gardens hovers somewhere in between a sandbox toy and a game with challenges. If it wasn’t for the monotony and complications that real life brings, and possibly the reason for playing the game in the first place, this experience should be on your go-to playlist as much as one of your favourite albums on Spotify.Dive into a relaxing sandbox mode with no goals, or take on a multi-chapter “campaign” where the task is to strike a balance between the natural and the manufactured. In that respect, Cloud Gardens is a beautiful game. That said, let’s say after a couple of minutes, that opinion was binned as the mood this game creates, and it’s minimalist approach – both in environments and UI is exquisite – to use a bit of a poncy term for a game review.
It’s unlikely that you picked up Cloud Gardens for the graphics, but it was a bit of a surprise. The visuals in the screenshots were stunning, but on the first inspection, they were low resolution and pretty crude textures. You literally can get lost here, in a good way, as there’s no one way of conforming and doing the same as everyone else.
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Of course, the levels get bigger and more complex too.Īside from the freedom to arrange the scene how you see fit, there’s a sandbox mode too where you are free to experiment – you can also set up photos too, if that’s your thing, with free movement of each step. With this progression, the game feels organic as the life it represents, and through subtle increments introduces new mechanics such as blooming plants that can be snipped and recycled to create new plants, making your vistas more lively. The purpose of these items is to trim away at the growths and allow them to grow back fuller and perhaps longer, however, if you place an item on the root of your plant it will respawn, and you have to set it once again, refilling the gauge. Initially, this didn’t make sense and would make what appeared to be a tranquil scene in the supposed apocalypse look quite chaotic and ugly. For the first half dozen scenes, this was easy, but then the plant would stop growing, or you’d be given signposts, industrial items and tyres to add. Fill the gauge, and you can proceed to the next area. In the bottom left of the screen is a circular gauge that fills each time your plant(s) grow. It’s not clearly defined whether the plants should be placed at the bottom to grow upwards like ivy, or having from a beam using wisteria, but working it out is part of the charm, and the objective isn’t to steamroll through to unlock an achievement. In the ‘campaign’ mode, which is one scene after another with slightly more introductions to the already bare UI, you’re given a few indicators where to grow your pieces. That nurturing comes from planting on any surface that appears to be a hotbed for vegetation. That magic involves clicking on a plant-like orb that usually hangs in a net, waiting to be nurtured. Without a ‘You are here’ map, you enter a gradient skyline of subtle urban vistas for you to work your magic. If you fancy yourself as untapped talent in the world of ikebana or landscaping, but never lifted a finger, then Cloud Gardens is as much for you as it is for me. Instead, this game from Noio is a snapshot of calm (mostly), free-thinking joy that comes with exploring creative puzzle titles. Cloud Gardens doesn’t aim to create those picturesque setpieces you’ll find scattered around in Japanese tourist honeypots, with visitors pretending to get it or simply offer up a vacant expression of being tasked with devising time travel.
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