Cloud Gardens
Cloud Gardens has the rare distinction of being the coziest post-apocalypse game here. In it, you are quite literally nature itself as it reclaims the abandoned landscape of the apocalypse. Drop props like train cars and bottles into dioramas of the end days and then cover it all in vegetation. Cloud Gardens boasts a lofi score and PS1-style graphics that lend nature’s reclamation of our world a serene and dreamlike quality. If the rest of the games on this list are too intense or even nasty for your sensibilities, I think Cloud Gardens is maybe the reprieve you’re looking for. And after all, who doesn’t want to get away from all the noise of our own lives for just a bit? Why can’t the isolation of the apocalypse be a refuge just this once? Cloud Gardens can be yours for the very chill asking price of just $10.79.
