Cloud Gardens sees you helping nature reclaim old places, planting seeds and growing lush vegetation to bring natural beauty to these locations.
I really enjoy seeing how nature reclaims places that humans have abandoned. Watching how the leaves, mosses, and mushrooms come creeping back in to the breaks and cracks of our fallen buildings. This game captures that same sense of awe and beauty that comes with seeing a place that nature has returned to, as you’ll be placing plants and objects to create a thriving ecosystem. As your plant choices take hold, you’ll see them steadily grow over the structures, creating these striking landscapes.
How you do that is largely up to you. There’s no big push to provide gameplay challenges or frustrations, with the game only asking you to cover these structures and help the plants grow. What that will look like is your choice, and while it can be puzzling, it’s meant to relax you and encourage your creativity. Plus, I mean, it’s a little harder to kill these plants than real life ones, if you’re the sort of person who has trouble with that. So, all you need to do here is find a way to cover these structures with growths, doing so in whatever way captures your imagination.
Cloud Gardens, therefore, is a lovely way to soothe yourself with some gardening that would be pretty difficult to do on your own. Here, you don’t have to worry about the plants dying OR a corroding structure falling on your head. Seems like a good deal, and it’s hard to deny how impressive these structures look when you’re done.
Cloud Gardens is available now on itch.io and Steam.
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