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Check out our latest videogame reviews, mostly PC games on Steam, but sometimes we play on consoles too.
Cloudpunk

Cloudpunk – Review

Matt Clarke

March 28, 2026

I want to talk about Cloudpunk, a game where you get to be a flying-car delivery driver in a futuristic cyberpunk city. Its world is an incredible achievement of environmental design, and while the gameplay itself may be basic, the city of Nivalis is a thing of beauty to behold. Nivalis is built out of hundreds of hand-modelled cuboid buildings; there’s nothing procedural about it. Apparently it took 3 years for the devs to design the city, and it really shows.

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