Fact sheet
- Title
- The Great Cloud
- Developer
- The Great Cloud, an independent studio in the United Kingdom
- Genre
- MMORPG · crafting, trading and a player-driven economy
- Platform
- Web browser first, no download needed. Desktop and mobile versions are planned.
- Status
- In development. The core systems are built and the game is in its art and production pass. A closed playtest runs by invitation code.
- Release
- To be announced. A closed alpha for founders comes first.
- Monetisation
- Cosmetic-only: skins, housing décor, mounts, companions and emotes. Players can never buy combat power, levels, resources, crafting advantages or an economic edge.
- Factions
- ChatNPC, The Order of Clawed, The Twin Minds, The Herd, The Oracle of Sparks
- Website
- thegreatcloudgame.life/world
- Social
- X · YouTube · Discord
- Contact
- [email protected]
Descriptions
One line
A browser-first 3D MMORPG where players set the prices, no two crafts come out the same, and money can only ever buy cosmetics.
Short (about 60 words)
The Great Cloud is a browser-first 3D MMORPG in development. Players gather, craft, trade and fight in one persistent world whose prices are set by what they make and destroy, not by vendors. Every craft rolls its own quality, so two players following one recipe rarely get the same result. Monetisation is cosmetic-only: nobody can buy power.
Long (about 180 words)
The Great Cloud is a browser-first 3D MMORPG from The Great Cloud, an independent UK studio. It is set in a world produced by something called the Great Cloud, which generates lands, creatures and resources and sometimes rewrites reality. Nobody agrees on what it is, and the game never settles the question.
The economy belongs to the players. Prices move with what everyone gathers, crafts, consumes and destroys, and a scarcity engine keeps the rarest items rare without letting them disappear. Loot is made, not dropped: every recipe runs through controlled randomisation, so quality and stats vary from craft to craft. Around that sit levels, gathering and crafting mastery, faction reputation, guilds, player housing, co-op raids and arena PvP.
Five factions argue over the Cloud: ChatNPC, The Order of Clawed, The Twin Minds, The Herd and The Oracle of Sparks. The game pays for itself through cosmetics alone. You can never buy combat power, levels, resources or an economic edge.
What makes it different
- A market with a pulse. One global, player-driven economy. The studio doesn't set the prices.
- Scarcity that adapts. Rarity is steered by how many players are active and how much already exists, so rare items stay rare and never go extinct.
- No two crafts alike. Crafting has controlled randomness, so what you make is yours.
- Never pay-to-win. Only cosmetics are for sale. Founder rewards give prestige, never power.
- A mystery that stays open. The Great Cloud is never fully explained, so the world can keep growing.
- More than one game. The same world has a puzzle game, Aether Refiner, and a strategy game, Cloudfall: Expeditions.
Announcements
No press releases for the MMORPG yet. Development updates go to the newsletter first.
Images
Click an image for the full-size file. Art on this page is from a game in development.
Key art · 1200×630 PNG
World art · WebP
Faction crests
ChatNPC
The Order of Clawed
The Twin Minds
The Herd
The Oracle of Sparks
Logo and screenshots
In-game screenshots, the logo and a trailer will be added here once the art pass is far enough along. For something sooner, email us.
- Logo · PNG
- Key art · full size
- Screenshot 1
- Screenshot 2
- Screenshot 3
- Screenshot 4
- Screenshot 5
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- Screenshot 8
Early access
We can give press a code for the closed playtest. Email [email protected] and tell us where you write. Please bear in mind that the art is still being replaced.