Games like Cloud Gardens
If Cloud Gardens is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tiny Terrariums, Tree Bonsai and Mini Worlds — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its lovely soundtrack, peaceful atmosphere and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Cloud Gardens is a 2021 relaxing puzzle game about placing plants and objects on post-apocalyptic dioramas and watching nature reclaim them. The single-player design centers on decoration planning, plant-growth management, and puzzle-solving, where object influences interact to produce growth and creativity matters more than efficiency. It costs 17.99 USD and is rated Playable on Steam Deck. Around 95% of 1,321 Steam reviews are positive. Players describe the mood as atmospheric and relaxing, and reviewers highlight the soundtrack, the ASMR-like audio, and how meditative and gentle the puzzles feel. The medium-length, short-burst structure suits unwinding, with a creative mode offering open-ended replay.
About Cloud Gardens: A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas
Players who liked Cloud Gardens also play
Steam players who put hours into Cloud Gardens also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Tiny Terrariums
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cloud Gardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Build terrariums for forest gnomes to live in, and play around in your creations as any one of the gnomes.
Tree Bonsai
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Cloud Gardens.
Second-strongest match for Cloud Gardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
An artistic bonsai tree simulation game that follows the life cycle of a plum tree. You can cut branches, add nutrients, and graft while the seasons pass and your tree grows. You can finally fulfill your dreams of a digital bonsai.
Mini Worlds
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cloud Gardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Mini Worlds is a cozy building toy about creating tiny cities on a small world. Build and decorate with no goals or timer.
Conductor: Creative Joy Engine
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cloud Gardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Conductor is an audiovisual experience creation engine that encourages you to craft, save, and share funky environments with its vibrantly creative tool-set alongside all of your favorite media.
WATERFUL: a tiny oasis builder
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cloud Gardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
A peaceful nature-builder where you dig riverbeds to guide water through tiny desert valleys. Grow a variety of plants and discover all the animals drawn to the new habitats. Complete quests and unlock new contraptions to transform the dry landscape into a lush oasis!
Otaku Engine
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Cloud Gardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Explore, build, and share virtual galleries created from your favorite hard drive or website images.
Flower Design
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cloud Gardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
A flower arrangement sandbox game. The shapes and colors are freely adjustable and there is a garden where you can build a house and put flowers in.
Islands & Trains
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Cloud Gardens.
Ranked #8 for Cloud Gardens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Craft tiny railway dioramas in a stress-free island sandbox. No rules or timers - just design, build, and enjoy.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cloud Gardens at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Cloud Gardens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Cloud Gardens on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cloud Gardens.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Cloud Gardens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Cloud Gardens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Cloud Gardens.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~56% under Cloud Gardens on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cloud Gardens.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Cloud Gardens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cloud Gardens.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cloud Gardens.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cloud Gardens.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Noio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Kingdom: New Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cloud Gardens.
Another title from Noio, the studio behind Cloud Gardens. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
Kingdom: Classic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cloud Gardens.
Another title from Noio, the studio behind Cloud Gardens. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cloud Gardens.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
GARBAGE COUNTRY
WHY THIS
Another title from Noio, the studio behind Cloud Gardens. Shares Indie with Cloud Gardens.
Garbage Country is a post-apocalyptic exploration sim from the creator of Cloud Gardens and Kingdom: New Lands. Drive across a handcrafted wasteland. Repel waves of enemy bots in tense tower-defense battles. Upgrade your car to travel further into the forgotten world buried under the dust.
Frequently asked about Cloud Gardens
- Does Cloud Gardens run on Steam Deck?
- Cloud Gardens is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Cloud Gardens cost?
- Cloud Gardens is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cloud Gardens?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cloud Gardens are Tiny Terrariums, Tree Bonsai, Mini Worlds.
- Who developed Cloud Gardens?
- Cloud Gardens was developed by Noio.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Cloud Gardens.
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