CLOUDHEIM
Fantasy plus knockabout physics equals pinball wizardry
Norse mythology underpins the game’s plot, but it starts from a clean slate as you rebuild the world in the aftermath of Ragnarok
Developer/ publisher Noodle Cat Games Format PC Origin US Release 2025
One of the first control prompts that pops up in the opening tutorial of Cloudheim is for a triple-jump. It’s a signal that beastman Runari is capable of athletic feats from the very start. We’re also quickly introduced to a grapple beam that launches us towards hook points (or yanks objects and creatures towards us) with breezy simplicity. Movement, meanwhile, is almost too speedy – as if our avatar is overeager to obey our every command, motoring off at the slightest nudge of the stick. But that too is in service of an unfussy flow, prompting us to play the game as the developers hope it’s going to be played.