Cloud Gardens
Diorama puzzle and sandbox game about plants reclaiming urban ruins
Noio · Released Sep 1, 2021
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 95% of 2,312
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 0
- peak 24h 1
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 11 months ago
- Oct 7, 2025
What is Cloud Gardens?
Cloud Gardens is a 3D diorama-building puzzle game set among decaying urban structures. You plant seeds and place discarded objects to help vegetation grow, covering the objects with foliage to advance through a chapter-based campaign. A separate sandbox mode lets you build without goals.
For you if...
- +you like calm puzzles built around arranging small scenes
- +you enjoy decorating dioramas with plants and discarded objects
- +you want a goal-free sandbox alongside structured levels
Not for you if...
- −you want intricate puzzles rather than light placement challenges
- −you dislike slow, repetitive object placement
What players say
95% of 2,312 reviews are positive
Players praise the calm pace, plant-covered urban scenes, soundscape, and creative mode. Some find the object placement repetitive and the puzzles too slight.
Screenshots and trailer
Cloud Gardens system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 8+
- Processor
- 2.4GHz Dual Core
- Graphics
- 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM
- Storage
- 300 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10+
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 11
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Shows Steam Deck controller icons
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian.
Tags
- Nature
- Sandbox
- Atmospheric
- Relaxing
- Experimental
- Procedural Generation
- Casual
- Building
- Simulation
- Singleplayer
- Surreal
- Indie
- Post-apocalyptic
- Level Editor
- 3D
- City Builder
Recent updates
- Oct 7, 2025 · Patch 1.2.6
- Jun 7, 2023 · Post-Competition Update (1.2.0)
- Feb 20, 2023 · Patch 1.1.1
- Feb 11, 2022 · Patch 1.1.0: Sandbox Camera Improvements
- Jan 18, 2022 · Patch 1.0.10
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