Cloud Climber

Cloud Climber

Two Star Games · January 14, 2021 · Free to Play, Walking Simulator, Adventure, Casual, Atmospheric

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Very Positive92% · 4,156
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About Cloud Climber

✦ AI summary

Build towering monuments across a parched world to reach the clouds and reclaim humanity's lost water in this hand-drawn narrative adventure. Explore atmospheric ruins, uncover what caused Earth's thousand-year drought, and experience a haunting story about survival and acceptance in just 10-15 minutes.

A surreal first person walking sim about the end of humanity. Explore magnificent sky-bound ruins, and learn why they were built.

Cloud Climber — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Cloud Climber is a visually gorgeous and creative game with good narration and thought-provoking moments that players find genuinely enjoyable, but it suffers from an extremely short runtime of around 30 minutes that leaves many feeling the experience is too brief to fully appreciate. Common complaints include lack of gameplay depth, technical issues like missing V-sync options, and a feeling that the concept needed more expansion through additional climbing or construction mechanics to justify the experience.

Recommended Sep 26, 2026
If there is a gaming equation that calculates enjoyment per minute, I strongly suspect Cloud Climber has a serious chance of being the #1 game of all time. The premise alone makes the game worth playing, and it manages to wring some genuinely thought-provoking moments out of the brief glimpse into this profoundly sad yet peaceful world.
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Not recommended Sep 19, 2026
A game that takes almost as long to install as to finish, a great big nothingburger. When the first two diary pages you find are Page 69 and Page 420, you know the mindset you have to be in to find this experience enjoyable.
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Recommended Sep 28, 2026
The narration is good, sadly I had screen tearing the whole thing and there is no V-sync option :(. It's a fun concept, a bit too short to really appreciated it plenty, It needs a bit more climbing maybe, or construction ? The journal are insteresting, but maybe other visual information to compliment it would have make the experience a bit more whole.
Recommended Sep 24, 2026
Very creative graphics and story line, while short.
Not recommended Sep 20, 2026
Very short game, not a memorable experience 2.5/5*
Recommended Sep 17, 2026
It's a gorgeous game,would really like an expanded version of it,it's really small like half an hour small,the dlc doesn't really appeal me cause it's just some wallpapers and not any expantion but if they ever make an expaned game of it I will be the first to preorder,very beautiful artstyle,and quite humurous too and also had some dark messages,the commentry was also really good,overall a 8 outta 10 the only downside being the games extremely short runtime and there was no way to die or any thrilling factor in the game like the game really holds our hand and make it a lil too simple and the devs hard work really shows on the graphics and design and all just a lil correction that the devs needa make is it's "further",not "farther" but really gorgeous of a game really flawless

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