Cloudgazer is a game that reminds me of how it felt to have my head in the clouds

Sometimes, just sometimes, we all need to slow down, relax, and forget about all the weight we carry on our shoulders day in and day out. Adult responsibilities are a drag, but it can be hard to capture the freedom we once felt as children. Thankfully, there is an indie game that's here to help: Cloudgazer. 

Cloudgazer: A Game About Watching Clouds is a remarkably simple game by DevilishGames that only asks one thing of you: forget everything else for a while and look at the virtual sky. In a world where every day presents a new problem to solve, I can't help but think this is the kind of game we should all be behind. 

Follow the clouds, or they can follow you

When I was a kid, I was always told I had my head in the clouds. Not just figuratively, either. No, I was that kid who was always distracted by the sky and the shapes I could find in the clouds. I still do it sometimes, usually on long car rides to somewhere I need to be but don't necessarily want to go, but the freedom to do it for hours is lost in the mayhem of adulthood.

So when I first heard about Cloudgazer, I'm not ashamed to admit that I felt weirdly emotional, because this little game offers the experience not only on PC, but on mobile as well. You don't need to find time to focus at your desk to play… the joy of cloudgazing is available right there in your pocket, ready to go whenever you get a spare five minutes.

And, if you want to switch off from screens altogether, you can even get the game as an activity book on Amazon! With 250 shapes to find throughout the pages, you can avoid the blue light and truly relax at any time. 

A slower pace

In Cloudgazer, there are no time limits or requirements to perform, just you and the clouds. It offers space to breathe, to think without focusing (something that I find incredibly useful), and freedom to let your imagination find something you might not initially see. With hundreds of programmed shapes hidden among regular clouds, Cloudgazer almost seems meditative.

Of course, this isn't a replacement for the real sky outside, which is something that DevilishGames explicitly states on the game's Steam page. However, I live in the UK, which is notorious for being grey most of the time. We've had a fairly cloudless summer and we're heading into fall, so Cloudgazer is just what I need to help me remember blue skies in the middle of the dreary, colder months. 

I also know full well that this game is going to be a hit not just with me, but with my daughter as well. I know how it's going to go: she spends the winter asking to play “the cloud game”, and next summer we go li in a field to do the same thing in real life. I didn't know I needed a reason to be excited for Summer 2027, but I'm glad Cloudgazer has given me one. 

Cloudgazer: A Game About Watching Clouds is set to release on September 3, 2026, on Steam, iOS, and Android.