In the process, Cloud Gardens manages the perfect mix of “I create my own rules” and “I still have motivation.” I let rain clouds pass over my world, discover new plants and get new placeable objects at hand. The ever-changing post-apocalyptic scenarios are a real feast for the eyes – birds fly peacefully overhead while a gentle soundtrack draws me deeper and deeper into a trance. Which is also because of how incredibly pretty and atmospheric this game is. You can tell I’m starting to sound a little esoteric, but that’s exactly what Cloud Gardens will do to you. Things that tend to get lost in large open worlds when they exist en masse around me. I see every little pebble, every can lying around, every little screw in an industrial structure. And suddenly I appreciate every little detail in the tiny dioramas because I no longer suffer from complete sensory overload as I sometimes do in other games. No one needs to be able to read the sign anymore – things like “front” and “back” no longer exist in this post-apocalyptic world. I turn the diorama around and ask myself “Why did I actually just plant in the front?” I begin to see the world through the eyes of my plants. I staple a sign to the pole, which my tendrils make directly their own. My first tendril wraps around a road sign from which a crow lifts into the air, I get a new plant variety.
The flow of the game kicks in fully after just a few seconds. So for now, the principle is pretty straightforward compared to other games – and that’s where Cloud Gardens’ strength lies.
as soon as the plants have overgrown a certain percentage of the level), I unlock new plant seeds and new items for the creative mode, in which I build my own post-apocalyptic dioramas. With each successfully remodelled scenario (i.e.
“Nature takes back the earth” at its best. Now they are nothing more than a support for the different plants. Scrap metal, pipes, walls, signs and hundreds of objects that at some point had a use for humanity. On the one hand, according to my aesthetic sensibilities, and on the other hand, in places where the plants can develop well – for example, a trellis that they subsequently climb up.īut I also place objects in the world to which my plants react. I harvest seeds in these places left behind by humanity and replant them elsewhere. An old motorway bridge, a junkyard, an abandoned greenhouse. And that’s fantastic.Ĭloud Gardens mixes post-apocalyptic atmosphere with a special building mechanic: I am presented with various scenarios that I have to plant. The unique build-up game Cloud Gardens has driven that out of me – because here it’s just the environment and me. I’ve visited so many such detailed virtual worlds in 2022 that I often find myself just walking past scenes that are actually impressive. “Oho, impressive, so someone spent weeks spreading realistic rubbish on the street and lovingly simulating vegetation … Where’s my next quest marker?” Sometimes I find it hard to appreciate game worlds at all. Because it showed her game worlds in a whole new way. Géraldine had an extraordinary experience with the apocalyptic building game Cloud Gardens. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Tips.
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