Unity - Cloud Meadow [v0.2.3.0 GOG] [Team Nimbus]

The game is very beautiful, very fun, and exciting. The story is interesting, but short (so far)... The mechanics of the farm are very interesting. Some scenes are unlocked even if you haven't done such a hot scene (Would that be a bug?). The game is very promising, good luck to the developer.

Before anything else; it would be 2-3 stars but deep spite reduce this

Overall the art looks nice
but thats it
everything else is poorly made
poorly thought out
poorly implemented
thrown together in hope something sticks
navigating the maps is not fun
gameplay (farm-sim) is interupted by completly different gameplay (dungeoncrawl), creating a mess that is worse then the sum of its parts

This "game" has been just as much of a scam as its predecessor Breeding Season, only at least that game was playable to a conclusion at one point (then they decided to "rework" the ui and suddenly there was almost no content).

It's been in development hell for years and is buggy as fuck.
The only decent thing about this whole thing has been Dieselbrain (the artist/animator) and I'm pretty sure they have completely abandoned working on this thing since they haven't mentioned it themselves in years now.

There has been no real meaningful changes to the actual game in years and has yet to actually finish its story or add new animated scenes.

The main "hook" of this game has been the animated interactions between the characters, and as of the end of May in 2023, is still relying on the animations from years ago.

At this point the project appears to lack any real direction, and has made no progress in actually finishing what it currently is.

The art is good and the animations are decent. The story on the other hand is like if you tasked a room of 14 redditors with writing a quirky, modernized jrpg about goofy light steampunk sex-positivity. That is to say it's completely disjointed, aggravatingly wordy and none of the dialogue comes across as natural. I seriously believe that you can get the best part of this game by just looking up a gallery compilation on another site. The sad part is that if they took this same art style and world, rewrote it and made the combat system less jarringly "unique" right at the start it could make a pretty enjoyable non porn fantasy rpg experience.

Feels like a scam of a project.
I remember playing this over a year and the game is still not much more than it was back then. The ONLY redeeming factor of this game is the good art and animations, everything else is pure shallow tedium.

When the only good thing is the animations it made me question if supporting this project was even worth it when I can just support artists who pump out way more than just a couple sprites per year.

it's basically feels like a lost cause driven off a cliff by somebody who ultimately just wants free money for other peoples work. If somebody couldn't create anything on their own they why do they even deserve the position of the project leader? Such an obvious scheme.

Over 20 people have cycled through this dev and left probably after realizing they were being scammed for their talent, this project is doomed because the leader seems to have no ability of actually making anything on their own and artists have learned to stay away from somebody essentially trying to be a ceo who does nothing but takes all the profit.

its probably 7 years in development (not less than 5 for sure) and all patrons got is (and they paid for porn i guess) stardew valley knock off
but much more tedious, less content(actually we can confidently say that its lacking content, especially considering that game was backing for 5-7 years)

porn content is pretty much stalled for past 2-3 years, no real additions or improvments (adding 1-2 gay scenes consideres to be a lucky year)
as soon as this game turned into "cloud meadow", it turned out to be shit
dont waste your time... right now, wait for another 10 year

Years of useless updates not sure why the creator won't just shutdown the game at this point, having 20 updates in a row of sprite animations and bug fixes is pretty much wasting the little of the creator's fanbase they have left time, and pretty much a slap in the face to their subscribers lol.

Good combat gameplay, great pixel art. Is buggy but its still in development so thats to be expected. Characters are interesting and unique, and the option of both protagonists is handled well. Hopefully work continues smoothly becasue i look forward to the completed game.

Let's use those funds to finally put an end to world hunger, because let's face it, that's probably more achievable than this game ever being finished.

Concept is Good
Game has potential
but it's just that
simply

Good game but not a good porn game. Has great graphics and the gameplay is fun. Not a lot of story, you can finish this game in about 10 hours. The porn scenes that the game does have are beautifully animated. I wouldn't recommend subscribing to their patreon, updates are painfully slow and not the patreon isnt worth buying just for the codes.

Downright inexcusable scam.

There are developers who take years, yet end up making a functioning full game. Team Nimbus had, what, four or five years?
Yet they are still stuck at version 0.1?
While milking 4000 people off their money for the smallest of progress?

Inexcusable, despicable and deceitful scam of a game. Existing to siphon away people's finances while throwing them a bone of few concept arts or whatever.

The gamehad a good potential. Good range of characters with monster girls/men. Where you or them would get fucked, bred.
While managing your farm and doing fun combat.
Except all this is way too ambitious. One would've guessed though that a lot of the mechanics would be done.
Nope.
Barebones game. I pity anyone who still supports these developers. There's so many others who deserve support more than these scammers.

The current state of this game is downright tragic (and shameful), but I guess we all should have seen it coming considering the game's heritage.

It started out very promising, the art and animations were stunning to me. I stopped supporting their Patreon a few years ago when they stopped focusing on the sexual content and every update was just more battle animations/non-sexual gameplay. They seemed to have forgotten the main draw of the game; it's an adult game containing fetish-focused sexual content. Non-sex related gameplay is all fine and dandy, but it's not why most people were playing. If there was no more sex to be added, there was nothing drawing me to it.

Fast forward to just recently when I decided to see how they game had come along since I'd last tried it. Lo and behold, *almost nothing had changed*. There was barely any more sexual content (maybe a couple of animations? A few seemed unfamiliar, but I recognized most of it) and even the gameplay that they'd been so focused on barely seemed to have progressed.

Such wasted potential. It presented itself as a breeding game, yet gave very little attention to the breeding aspect. A fetish game that ignores its own fetish is doomed to failure, and I'm frankly shocked that they're still pulling in money at this point. Rest in peace, Breeding Season. Your death appears to have been in vain

4 or 5 years on now, it's still nowhere as interesting or detailed as Breeding Season's beta. Just go view the better versions of the animated scenes on Rule34, they're not in the game's gallery anymore.

The art is good, but if you're only playing it for the art it's not exactly a game at that point. Look up the art online, or RIP it and unlock the gallery. Once you've unlocked all the art there is absolutely zero content, and you can tell as much even before getting to that point.

a milking machine with dead content and devs who don't even care for years. This is pretty much abandoned. I had high hopes when this game came out. I love sprite work and farming sim games with a breeding system that let's you make hybrids. However the sex part is unfinished for years, well can't even say they did anything with it at all. The little stuff that is in it isn't done for maybe 5 years now? Stuff that shouldn't take more than a view months. Instead they made everything else and not even that much more either. The devs only care about the 3-4 sheep who still pay for some reason and don't realise that new content is non existent for years now.

Breeding Season didn't die for this.
The game is a buggy mess since its first installment, boring as hell and just tedious. Only thing thats nearly worth it is the art, but man, just go see it in rule 34 or some other place because this game doesn't deserve any of your time nor attention.
The most maddening thing here is that i was a breeding season enjoyer back in the day, following every update like a hound dog until the bad news dropped and everything dissapear into nothingness. The excuse for its demise is that "It was never going to be finished", this was said from a dev, dont know who it was but if my memory is correct it was H-Purple.
Now we only have a mess of a game slowly lowering into the same common trench Breading Season was tossed into.
Cheers.

Edit: Updated review to 1/5. Game has no future. The only redeeming factor it had were the HD scenes you probably saw on rule34. Apparently those scenes will no longer be made in favor of the low pixel scenes I spoke about below. Might update review if they change it but until then, don't bother investing time or hope into this project.

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3/5 I think is a fair score everything considered. I like helping out new games that have potential by rating them high but this game doesn't need that. It has a lot of potential but by the looks of it it has been in development for too long and what little content there is does not justify how long it took them to get to this point.

Gameplay wise it isn't really a farming or breeding game. It felt more like a dungeon crawler game, and while the time spent in this game was enjoyable, that's because I actually enjoyed the combat itself for the most part. But that's not what you'd expect or really want of this type of game.

Farming is clunky, tedious, and not really satisfying. Breeding doesn't feel satisfying because the sex scenes are lacking. The only good scenes are between the farmer and the humanoid cattle of which there are only a total of 10 or so. The humanoid on humanoid cattle scenes are very low pixel and disappointing to see.

So 3/5 because this game really does have potential and there's some really detailed scenes there but the slow development combined with the contradictory gameplay loop takes away from what you'd expect the game to be.

Good Art. Shit Game. Long live Breeding Season. Tried so hard to give this game the benefit of the doubt because like I said, I love the art. Game has been buggy consistently, even in the so called "stable" builds. As annoying as that is I could forgive it if there was more art and animations being uploaded consistently. However the last several updates all seem to be slight fixes and rehashing old mechanics to make them slightly different for no real benefit.

This game will never get finished. It's been in development for years and was made at the expense of another game, but has made little progress. There has been little increase in the amount of h-scenes since the last time I checked a year ago, and that is pretty much business as usual for this game. If you know anything about the history of this game and its predecessor you'll know it's a Patreon milking scheme. STAY AWAY