Features & Quality Update!

New Features

In addition to new language support, we’ve also added two significant improvements for those who continue playing beyond simply beating the game once.

New Language Support

We’re excited to announce that Cloudbuilt now offers full support for Simplified Chinese, thanks to the incredible help of JACKIEXIA! This update makes the game more accessible to Chinese-speaking players, providing a smoother and more inclusive experience. The new language option applies to menus, interfaces, and story text, making the game easier to navigate and enjoy.

How to Select Your Language

• Automatic for New Players On first launch, Cloudbuilt will automatically use your Steam language settings, including Simplified Chinese if that’s your chosen Steam language.

• Changing Languages Later If you want to switch languages after your first launch, just go to Options > Game and use the spinner at the bottom of the window to pick your preferred language.

A Call Out to the Community

A huge thank you to JACKIEXIA for making this possible. We’re incredibly grateful for his dedication and time. If you’d like to help translate Cloudbuilt into other languages or refine existing translations, please reach out! Your contributions make the game better for players worldwide, and we truly appreciate your support.

Profiles

You can now have three simultaneous profiles, allowing you to start a new run from the beginning without losing progress on your previous ones. This is especially handy if you’re aiming for additional skins or achievements. Since the game wasn’t originally designed for multiple profiles, it took some workarounds to implement, but in our tests everything appears stable. If you encounter issues, let us know!

Level Select Details View

We’ve revamped the level select overview feature in Competitive Mode:

• Expanded Information Besides your overall best ranking like you could see before, you can now also see the ranking you achieved on your current profile.

• Life Tracking A new view mode also shows how many lives you’ve earned on each level (per mode/profile), making it easier to track progress for raising the life cap or collecting pickups.

• Available In Any View These additional details can be enabled at any time while navigating the level select menu, not just in the fully zoomed-out view.

(As part of this update, we also tweaked some instructions text at the bottom of the Level Select screen to be more useful and less distracting. Additionally we managed to remove a 1 frame lag we had on some UI elements when the camera moves, making the menu feel more responsive.)

Smaller Updates

Asynchronous Texture Loading

We fixed a bug where the asynchronous texture loader sometimes failed to generate a new texture handle when creating texture resources to swap between levels or after certain setting changes. This could lead to reusing an existing handle and overwriting its contents, causing unexpected visuals in various places. Like in UI elements, shadow hatching textures, and similar. We’ve checked the rest of the texture loading code as well for similar issues and everything else looks fine. Apologies to anyone who experienced odd UI or shading since we introduced asynchronous loading a few patches ago.

PhysX Memory Usage

We’ve tweaked PhysX settings to make memory usage more efficient, because we've become aware that most reported crashes occur in PhysX memory allocation spikes. As a 32-bit Windows application, Cloudbuilt (like any 32-bit program) can only use up to about 4 GB of RAM, so sudden, unpredictable allocation spikes in PhysX can push the total over that limit. We suspect it may briefly duplicate