Press kit — Cloudfall: Expeditions

Fact sheet

Title: Cloudfall: Expeditions
Developer: Kai Karhunen, a solo developer in the UK, at The Great Cloud LTD (bio · portrait, JPEG)
Genre: 4X strategy · simultaneous-turn hex strategy
Platforms: Android (Google Play, phones and tablets) and Google Play Games on PC (part of Google Play, so a Google Play copy plays there too), out 19 November 2026; pre-registration is open.
Planned platforms
Planned: Steam on Windows with controller and Steam Deck support, with the Microsoft Store at the same time or shortly after. The Epic Games Store and GOG follow later. Each store sells its own copy; a purchase does not carry between stores. Nothing beyond Google Play is confirmed or dated.
Status: Pre-registration open on Google Play · out 19 November 2026
Release: 19 November 2026 (Android)
Price: One purchase. No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions and no battle pass.
Players: 1–4. Solo against expedition leaders, daily and weekly seeded expeditions, pass and play on one device, or online with friends using a room code.
Match length: About 30 minutes at most on the standard clock.
Match settings and extensions
30 turns of about a minute each (a 55-second planning clock and a few seconds of resolution). 15-turn matches take about 15 minutes and 45-turn matches about 45. The clock can be 30, 55 or 90 seconds, or Relaxed with no clock. Everyone plans at once, so four players take no longer than one. If the turn limit is reached with no outright winner, players can choose Play on: the limit lifts and the match continues until someone wins by conquest, wealth or dominion (online, anyone who doesn’t join is replaced by a leader).
Match setup: 2–4 expeditions, small, medium or large maps, in three regions (the Verdant Reach, the Iron Cleft and Whisperfen), sponsor doctrines on or off.
Campaign: The Expedition Ledger: 16 scripted expeditions in four chapters, one per region and a finale across all three, with three objectives (seals) each, a title for each expedition mastered and a gold Veteran seal for winning it on Hard.
Modes: Solo against leaders on Easy, Normal or Hard · daily and weekly seeded expeditions · pass and play for 2–4 · online rooms, lobby board and quick match · five lessons and a practice expedition with an advisor
Leaders & doctrines: Five sponsors, each led by a leader with a doctrine that changes the game: cheaper Wardens, bounties and cheaper walls (The Order of Clawed); cheaper Strider-riders (The Twin Minds); strength and healing in numbers (The Herd); cheaper Lens-archers and gear (The Oracle of Sparks); faster veterans and richer camps (ChatNPC).
Progression: 57 feats and a track of 93 cosmetic rewards (liveries, trims, banner cloth, crest rims, portrait frames and titles), all earned by playing. Looks never change the rules.
Features: Google Play Games: achievements and cloud save across phone and PC (sign-in optional) · solo and the campaign play fully offline · leaders fill empty seats and take over for anyone who drops · no ads · keyboard and mouse on PC · portrait and landscape · colour-vision mode, high contrast, reduced motion
Languages: English, German, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.
Requirements: Android 8 or later, OpenGL ES 3.0; 3 GB of memory recommended
Setting: The world of The Great Cloud, a browser-first MMORPG in development
Website: expeditions.thegreatcloudgame.life
Contact: support@thegreatcloudgame.life

Descriptions

One line

A hex strategy game where up to four expeditions plan in secret, move at the same moment, and race to hold a freshly fallen region in a match of up to half an hour.

Short (about 60 words)

Cloudfall: Expeditions is a stand-alone strategy game for 1–4 players. A new region has fallen out of The Great Cloud, and rival expeditions race to claim it in a match of up to half an hour. Everyone plans their orders in secret and they all resolve at once, with every chance shown before you commit. A 16-expedition campaign, five leaders with their own doctrines, one purchase and no ads.

Long (about 250 words)

Cloudfall: Expeditions is a simultaneous-turn hex strategy game from The Great Cloud, an independent UK developer. Every so often The Great Cloud lets go of a stretch of land, called a Cloudfall. It arrives whole, scattered with strange wreckage, and it doesn’t stay. Rival expeditions race to claim it.

Each turn, every player plans at the same time and in secret: move, recruit, fortify, found an outpost or upgrade gear. Then all the orders resolve together. Blows land within a range and forest can turn one aside, and an exact forecast shows the odds before you commit. You win by conquest, by wealth or by dominion, or by leading the tally when the last turn ends.

A standard match is 30 turns of about a minute each, so it is over within about half an hour; 15 and 45 turns are there for a quicker or longer game. Play the sixteen-expedition Ledger campaign across three regions and a finale, take on expedition leaders from Easy to Hard, race a seeded daily or weekly expedition, pass one device around the table, or play online with friends using a room code. Each of five sponsors has a leader and a doctrine that bends the rules its own way, from cheaper riders to strength in numbers. Wardens, lens-archers and strider-riders climb through four tiers of gear. 57 feats and a 93-reward cosmetic track are earned through play and never sold.

It is a single purchase with no ads and no in-app purchases, with Google Play Games achievements and cloud save, and it plays fully offline against leaders. It launches on Android and Google Play Games on PC, with Steam and the Microsoft Store planned, and is set in the world of The Great Cloud, an MMORPG in development.

What makes it different

Everybody moves at once. Strategy for up to four without waiting for three other people to take their turns.
Every chance is shown. Combat has luck in it, so the game gives you the exact odds, damage range and counter-blow before you commit an order.
Half an hour, not half a week. A standard match is 30 turns of about a minute each. Every player plans at the same time, so a four-player match takes no longer than a solo one. 15 and 45 turns for a quicker or longer game, and Play on to keep going past the limit when nobody has won outright.
Leaders with an edge. Each sponsor’s leader brings a doctrine that changes what is cheap and what is strong, so the same map plays differently for every expedition.
Plenty to come back to. A 16-expedition campaign, daily and weekly seeded expeditions, online play with friends, and a long cosmetic track.
Buy it once. No ads, no in-app purchases and no battle pass. Every livery is earned by playing. On Google Play, one purchase covers phone and Google Play Games on PC; other stores sell their own copy.
Play anywhere. Offline solo and campaign, device-to-device multiplayer, and Google Play Games cloud save to carry your progress from phone to Google Play Games on PC.
Part of a bigger world. The same five factions as The Great Cloud MMORPG.

Announcements

Cloudfall: Expeditions comes to Google Play on 19 November 2026, and pre-registration is open now. Sign-ups for the closed playtest have closed. News goes to the newsletter first; sign up on the game page.

Images

Click an image for the full-size file. Use any of them. The key art is rendered from the game’s own 3D models, and the close-ups and screenshots are captured from the running game (pre-release builds).