[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"similar-games-cloud-gardens":3,"game-cloud-gardens":5},{"similarGames":4},[],{"game":6,"hasUserReviewed":127},{"id":7,"name":8,"summary":9,"cover_image":10,"header_image":11,"trailer_url":12,"release_date":13,"avg_score":14,"igdb_id":15,"slug":16,"steam_app_id":17,"companies":18,"genres":23,"platforms":28,"reviews":33,"coverImage":10,"headerImage":11,"trailerUrl":12,"releaseDate":13,"criticReviewCount":122,"userReviewCount":123,"previewCount":123,"publishers":124,"developers":125,"userReviews":126,"hasUserReviewed":127,"steamAppId":17},111142,"Cloud Gardens","A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas.\n\nIn 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.\n\nPlayers 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.\n\nThis is a chill game where the player is allowed to delight in their own creativity. The player's task is to completely cover the scene in plants. As you overgrow the objects, a meter fills to show your progress. You are given objects to expand the scene. These objects contribute energy to the growing of plants, but you will also have to cover them in foliage to complete the stage, striking a balance between nature and the manufactured.\n\nWith generative soundscapes by Amos Roddy, composer of the Kingdom Series.","111142\u002Fcloud-gardens-cover.jpg","111142\u002Fcloud-gardens-header.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002FkWe-U0L9lRo","2021-09-01",null,136407,"cloud-gardens",1372320,[19],{"company":20,"developed":22,"published":22},{"name":21},"Noio",true,[24,25,26,27],"Puzzle","Simulator","Strategy","Indie",[29,30,31,32],"PC (Microsoft Windows)","Xbox One","Nintendo Switch","Xbox Series X|S",[34,50,65,79,94,108],{"id":35,"author":36,"outlet":39,"summary":45,"review_url":46,"review_date":47,"original_score":48,"normalized_score":49},446,{"id":37,"name":38},40,"Catherine Dellosa",{"id":40,"logo":41,"name":42,"website_url":43,"score_format":44},1,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FTechRaptor%20Logo.png","TechRaptor","https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net","10","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.","https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net\u002Fgaming\u002Freviews\u002Fcloud-gardens-review","2021-09-28","8",80,{"id":51,"author":52,"outlet":55,"summary":60,"review_url":61,"review_date":62,"original_score":63,"normalized_score":64},2236840,{"id":53,"name":54},3103,"Morgan Truder",{"id":56,"logo":57,"name":58,"website_url":59,"score_format":44},158,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FPurenintendo.jpeg","Pure Nintendo","https:\u002F\u002Fpurenintendo.com","Cloud Gardens is a puzzle game set after an apocalypse. Unlike most games set after an apocalypse, Cloud Gardens doesn’t rely on zombies, monsters or how awfu","https:\u002F\u002Fpurenintendo.com\u002Freview-cloud-garden-nintendo-switch\u002F","2022-07-11","8.5",85,{"id":66,"author":67,"outlet":70,"summary":76,"review_url":77,"review_date":78,"original_score":75,"normalized_score":14},48816,{"id":68,"name":69},1023,"Kaan Serin",{"id":71,"logo":72,"name":73,"website_url":74,"score_format":75},64,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FRock-Paper-Shotgun-Logo.jpg","Rock Paper Shotgun","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.rockpapershotgun.com\u002F","unscored","Cloud Gardens is a competent, unique puzzle game and a contemplative, relaxing dreamscape, all rolled into one small package.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.rockpapershotgun.com\u002Fcloud-gardens-review-zen-gardening-in-the-middle-of-the-wasteland","2021-09-09",{"id":80,"author":81,"outlet":84,"summary":89,"review_url":90,"review_date":91,"original_score":92,"normalized_score":93},30080,{"id":82,"name":83},3169,"Roland Ingram",{"id":85,"logo":86,"name":87,"website_url":88,"score_format":44},34,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FNintendoLife-Logo.jpg","Nintendo Life","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nintendolife.com\u002F","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.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nintendolife.com\u002Freviews\u002Fswitch-eshop\u002Fcloud-gardens","2022-06-15","7",70,{"id":95,"author":96,"outlet":99,"summary":104,"review_url":105,"review_date":106,"original_score":107,"normalized_score":14},83559,{"id":97,"name":98},6669,"Joshua Winters",{"id":100,"logo":101,"name":102,"website_url":103,"score_format":75},129,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FStart-Menu-Logo.jpg","StartMenu","https:\u002F\u002Fstartmenu.co.uk\u002F","Each individual scene is on a Mario-esque level map which labels each in the world-level format (i.e. World 1-6, World 3-2) which helped remind me that despite its dreamlike nature Cloud Gardens is a game with progression. Each collection of levels is named simply, like Junkyard and Factory, and delivers on its concept. Delightful to the discerning lore-lovers and place-imaginers among us is seeing how the straight line of the Railroad levels passes through the enclosed worlds’ sections on the overmap. It is the world we always return to, with a level representing another train station cropping up every so often. The exquisite delicacy found in all parts of Cloud Gardens can be observed here breathing the gentlest suggestion of a coherent landscape of post-human engineering and manufacture over which we grow our verdant garden of stillness and rest.\tCloud Gardens is an artistically satisfying game that allows the non-diorama builder to experience the loveliness of the confidently arranged detail, the thrill of the unexpected aesthetic coherence, and the magic gift of gardening’s simplicity.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.startmenu.co.uk\u002Fhome\u002Freview-cloud-gardens","2021-09-02","Unscored",{"id":109,"author":110,"outlet":113,"summary":118,"review_url":119,"review_date":91,"original_score":120,"normalized_score":121},80661,{"id":111,"name":112},3930,"Eric Hauter",{"id":114,"logo":115,"name":116,"website_url":117,"score_format":44},59,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FGaming-Nexus-Logo.jpg","Gaming Nexus","https:\u002F\u002Fgamingnexus.com\u002F","While I can't fault Cloud Gardens for its cool visuals or interesting themes, those things are ultimately lost to fiddley controls and a somewhat obtuse gameplay loop. Many players will likely enjoy the creative side of this game, but others will be left wondering why they are trashing up perfectly nice scenes.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gamingnexus.com\u002FArticle\u002F7612\u002FCloud-Gardens\u002F","6.5",65,6,0,[21],[21],[],false]