Cloud Gardens
Worth it · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.54.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $3.27/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
September 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $4.79. It has been discounted 46 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Past sales have already crossed the $8.54 BANGER line 2 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tiny Glade ($11.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Townscaper ($5.99, scores 69).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 5 of the 403 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 520 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
5.5 hours to finish it, 19 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
61% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 5.5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
A cozy and chill game with no stakes but does give you creative freedom. Would recommend if you want to watch plants take over the hell scape that humans have left
One of the most relaxing, atmospheric, and enjoyable games I know! At times, it has saved me from a bad mood. On top of that, I absolutely love its visual style! It is incredibly pleasing and beautiful! It also has a nice creative mode where you can made dioramas of your own, but I think that camera should be made more dinamic and free to move. I definitely recommend that everyone give it a try. P.S. Whoever created...
Pretty good, though I think that the quotas for some levels are a little annoying. I want to create a pretty scene, not maximum greenery.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Cloud Gardens scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1372320/cloud-gardensReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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