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

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

Lower quality compared to previous projects, significant downgrade from previous projects, severely lacking of options and customization, significant downgrade and lack of monsters and creatures for gameplay, the farming mechanic is a time soaker and slows gameplay down even more than it should. Getting rid of the farming mechanic would improve the game and adding far far more customization, creatures, creature options, game options, player character options, all in priority over bland unrelatable NPC characters would significantly improve the game. For now however, the game as it stands is a BORING waste of time.

You want to enjoy the H content of the game? then go here Cloud Meadow by s-purple | Hitomi.la aside from that, this is not a worth it download and just a total waste of time..... Have fun

I'm honestly amazed that this game is still around and kicking. Almost nothing is new and hardly worth playing IMO. The game is pretty boring, even with the lewds. None of the characters are interesting and the art style is relatively bland. All in all would not, well I could not recommend this game to anyone.

Edit, also please don't support this dev or this project truly. This guy might as well be the next YandereDev with the length it's been worked on and lackluster progress.

The Game hasn't had any meaningful updates in years now, the dev is just taking the patreon money and providing "bug fixes" and "balance changes" each month.

Please, people, for the love of god, stop giving this scammer money.

With the horribly slow updates and abysmal additional contents to each update, this game re-playability is basically none. While the art is good, and the story somewhat decent it just ends on the first real mission.

I don't get it why people give their money to support this game
S-Purple is a good artist but not a good game maker
It will be better if he copy breeding season than make this game
Except good graphic this game has nothing

Version: v0.1.2.4g

This game does not know what it wants to be, so many mechanics, both core and additional just feel like they were throw around with no care in the world how they should interact with each other. Genuinely disappointing, considering very early in this game development it had show that it could be a great and a fun game. Now its nothing.

Go look around for other good games, you wont find that here.

0.1.2.4d: I'm not sure if others make the same distinctions I do, but Cloud Meadow is shaping up to be more of a game-with-porn than porn-game. As a hybrid dating sim, farming sim, and dungeon crawler it's a lot like the modern Harvest Moon games except with monster breeding too. And porn. It seems to have a stronger focus on dungeon crawling than most games in this genre, but that may be a result of how it's still -- somehow -- relatively early in development. I'm looking forward to what it may become, but considering the alarmingly slow dev cycle I probably won't check the project out for another five years. It's also a coin-flip whether the project will realize its potential, be in-development for 7 more years before having "v1.0" slapped on a half-finished product and being shoved out the door, or be abandoned entirely. It's up to you to decide which of these outcomes corresponds to the coin landing on it's side.

Visuals/Lewds/Gallery: The art is quite good. The female protagonist is particularly sexy (which is always a plus), though very busty characters feel a bit over represented. Lewds exist as animated scenes between the protagonists and town NPCs or monsters, and sprite sex between monsters or between protagonists and Frontier NPCs. They are all well done and I like how you can change the monsters' coloration while viewing the gallery. The gallery is available straight from the main menu and unlocking a scene with any protagonist will unlock it for both protagonists. You can choose which pairings (m/m, f/f, m/f) you want to see in the settings, so that's nice too.

Dating Sim: You can adventure and chat with party NPCs to raise their affection, eventually locking dates and the corresponding animations. Eventually. So far a single date for one NPC has been implemented, though there is a second you can still chat with.

Farming Sim: The farming aspect is solid, though unfortunately you need to clear part of the dungeon in order to actually unlock your farm. Theoretically you'd be specifically training monsters to work on your farm while trying to match their "fertilizer" type to the season, eventually upgrading to all-season monsters and finally dragons. Except since there isn't much in the game we have access to all of it and dragons are allowed to break the flow/economy from week 1. Regarding monster breeding: there's no back-crossing but also no genealogy data, so breeding can be a bit tedious. Cooking is a nice way to use all the crops you're growing, but unfortunately it's been poorly implemented so using high quality ingredients leaves you with a failed product.

Dungeon Crawling: Combat is solid, with each monster and character having a unique skill set and some even having their own mechanics. The blue guy is totally busted though. Again, theoretically you're supposed to be introduced to meet him a bit later in the game, but since we have access to everything at the stage he can start stomping all over combat from day 1. I suspect there's supposed to be some metagaming between bringing NPCs (who gain levels and stats through battle) and monsters (who gain stats through their daily feedings, but have higher stat ceilings) but it isn't really balanced so you'll probaly just use a full NPC team because there isn't much to do in the days it'll take to breed and train appropriate monsters.

In Development: Very. All of the systems seem to be in place... but only one place. The game has been in development for a while so you'd expect them to have more to show for it, but whatever, maybe they were focusing on systems before content. I don't really expect the pace of development to pick up anytime soon. As I mentioned up top, Cloud Meadow has solid potential so you can have a bit of fun with it now then maybe again in five years.

Betrayal Meadow. Forever a shadow of what breeding season was. Bound to never reach the potential of it's predecessor.
Don't bother playing this garbage.
You can find better farming games out there.
You can find better combat games out there.
You can find better porn games out there.
You can play something not based on a scam.

The Nimbus team don't seem to know what kind of game they're going for. The jump from Breeding Season to this is quite jarring. This game has no soul to it, it's just a mish mash of different things and doesn't put its focus on anything in particular meaning none of it turns out well. The combat isn't fun, nor should it be a focus for a game that obviously had the original intention of being a farming/breeding game. But the farming/breeding isn't fun either. This game has been out since 2016 and has no right to be sitting so far behind in comparison to other games in similar categories without any real soul to it.

If you want a fix like Breeding Season check out the game Breeding Farm by Team Bieno instead. It's a much better spiritual successor to Breeding Season and looks like it will actually go somewhere.

Only positive I'll really mention about this game is the art is nice.

simply did not enjoy it. did not really draw me in and found my self bored rather quickly. The game is playable, but really if you want to do farming sim go play stardew valley, and if you really need porn there are better porn games out there

Do you remember when this "product" came to be because a scam"artist" betrayed and stole the idea and concept from a different dev who worked on a similar project that was good and still had potential, while it got actual updates that improved the game bit by bit?

Do you realize that this is still a scam since there is no real update since 2015/16 because this is a scam and there is no other dev with a similar project whos ideas can be stolen?

For the love of anything, stop saying that Breeding Season was "the father" or "the devs split up". This is wrong and it is not how it happened. A promising IP got murdered through betrayal.

Read up HBombs statements, they clearly state that S-Purple betrayed the original dev. https://www.pcgamer.com/breeding-season-game-cancelled/

This is from the article about the deleted blog post:

“S had gone entirely behind our backs to spend an entire month’s worth of work (for which he collected over $9,000 of patron money, by the way) working on a new project that he planned to abandon Breeding Season entirely for,” HBomb’s blog post states. “Not even once had he brought up to me the notion of him leaving the project or faced me directly with his desire for different leadership. Instead he took the most cowardly possible option, to the point of even fooling Subtank [another artist] into believing the work he was doing was for Breeding Season’s benefit, and straight-up swindled us.”

The real problem, though, is that Sandler allegedly walked away with half of the studio’s savings—as he was allowed to do under the terms of the contract—and demanded that all assets he created for Breeding Season be removed from it. He’s also rejected HBomb’s offer to purchase those assets, even though, according to the post, he won’t be able to do anything with them.

“This leaves Breeding Season half stripped of assets. Effectively, this would scrap the entire project as it currently stands, forcing us to start over completely from square one,” the post says. “There is absolutely no viable reason for him to do this except to be an emotionally-stunted man-child destroying someone else’s sandcastle. He can’t even reasonably repurpose any of these assets for use in another project because anything that is either based on my design or was touched by any of the other artists or animators also jointly belongs to me. And there is no way in fucking hell I am letting him get away with what he did on any level.”

Why would you add fucking dungeons in a pornofarm game? I do not understand. The predecessor of this game was very good and now we got this piece of shit. Why? Just why did you spoil great game? You had simple but very popular idea and then you decided to make another stardrewvallew clon with tits&dicks.

Its not finished, but its got a good core game with sex scenes as a large side, instead of Sex being the main focus, and the gameplay being bad. Cloud Meadow is a game about work. Its got a large variety of other parts, some bigger than others, but the biggest part of this Game is that you run a farm. As such, you are a farmer and must tend to your crops. The second thing you have below this is monster breeding. You the player selectively breed monsters to have traits and stats to help you run the farm and do tasks. More farming makes more wealth, in money and otherwise. More wealth means easier access to breeding your monsters. Better monsters makes farming easier. You most likely wont have these monsters forever, as they have to "graduate" out of your farm, but you can keep their children as placeholders, or buy newer monsters with usually less traits. Cloud Meadow is a lot of work in play, but its a very fun concept that is almost fleshed out, and it has some absolutely spectacular sex scenes to top it off.

The art style is great though the game itself needs A LOT of improvement in the code or whatever keeps it working cause I have never played a game with that many crashes happening in one play through (which is order to fix you are forced to go to their discord, give them a bunch of files and your save and HOPE its fixed). Though the game tries too hard to be something that it isn't with the farming system which is a waste of time. Not worth it unless you really like the artstyle.