Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 02:23 pm
Neural Cloud – Strategy Game Review
Neural Cloud is a Strategy game from Sunborn Network Technology Co., Ltd., first launched in 20th November 2022.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 4,673+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Neural Cloud Stand Out
"Warning! Fatal Error: System integrity severely compromised…"
This is an unprecedented threat to the existence of Dolls. In face of formidable enemies and a future filled with uncertainties, the scattered Dolls grit their teeth and steel themselves as they travel in search of the slim hope of salvation.
Humankind may have abandoned them, but as the person in charge of "Project Neural Cloud", you have steadfastly set foot in this unknown land and founded the "Exiles" as you take in meandering Dolls. With you as their leader, the Exiles shall explore the secrets of the world, find a way out of this desperate situation, and uncover the truth…
「Unique and intricate characters」
Next-gen Dolls from all walks of life await your orders. Seek them out and expand the ranks of the Exiles. Train your favorite Dolls and help them break free of the shackles on their neural clouds. Uncover their hidden pasts… Hush, those are secrets between you and your Dolls.
「Combat that calls for both strength and strategy」
Experience a brand-new combat mode that embodies the essence of roguelike games, with meticulous settings and characterization. Take risks and engage powerful enemies, play it safe and carefully plan your moves with the big picture in mind, or play it by ear and improvise depending on the situation—more than one path leads to victory. Organize your ranks and come up with viable team comps while making good use of friendship buffs, and leave the rest to the Exiles.
「Fun and functional construction system」
Gather materials on your journey to construct and upgrade facilities within the Oasis, the Exiles’ new home. Build a city based on your preferences, upgrade its infrastructure, and construct dormitories to obtain rich resources and powerful buffs. May you and your beloved Dolls enjoy a brief respite before you set off on your next adventure.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Neural Cloud is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd October 2024
Recent improvements include:
[Exercise Handbook – Shadow] Available!
Participate in the event and complete missions to obtain rewards including [Clukay's Neural Fragments]*100 and more.
[Arma Inscripta]
Clukay's ""Scarred Goggles""
[Perilous Advancement] Limited-Time Rerun
Starts on 10/30 (UTC-8), participate in the event for the limited Doll and rich rewards.
[New Doll] Shale
The specialist A-PI Doll was developed internally by Svarog Heavy Industries' Energy Division. Its primary functions included prospecting for, extracting, and refining fossil fuels, covering every link in the fossil fuel industry. Like many specialized Dolls developed by Svarog Heavy Industries, the A-PI's design emphasized repairability and durability under hostile work conditions. In addition, multiple suites of internal modules and external equipment were developed for it. Since the fossil fuel industry was still quite large in the 2050s, the A-PI did not suffer the lack of demand which many industry critics had predicted, instead maintaining a stable sales volume.
As one of the initial A-PIs, Shale was purchased and employed by a major oil company that was affiliated with Svarog Heavy Industries. However, due to cutbacks in 2059, Shale was made redundant. She was recovered by Svarog, and was then sent to Project Neural Cloud.
Download & Availability
Neural Cloud is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is a very good game, we do need for dorm coin farm to buy more furniture. Itso cute, we can use it as background for work.
Cant believe it practically receives no updates anymore. We were really invested in the gameplay and events, but now with the same few dolls rerunning that dont matter because of the same gameplay, we really have no reason to play. We dont think the money we spent on skins and pulls were a waste at all since we were happy with them, but we wish we could feel the same moderate stimulation from playing daily. We miss you Sueyoi, Clotho, and Penumbra.
For a game that took 30 minutes to download its assets, the quality of the graphics during combat is genuinely awful.
The lastest events English translation is awful and full of machined learning translation mistakes. We refuse to play the event in this state and expect more from the developers. If this poor excuse for a translation is this bad here then we fear other translation projects may be at risk of being awful as well such as new content for GFL or GFL2.
We love this game but right now theres a bug with trying to log in. When you click log in with game center is always says GameCenter Verification Failed Ive tried restarting our phone and deleting and reinstalling but we still cant log into the game.
The game is good overall. We gave 4 stars because we couldnt log in by using Facebook and now we lost our account.
We wish this game had better social features. Currently all friends are good for is borrowing their units, but aside from that theres not much else (and the stronger you become the less incentives you have for using supports which means you dont have incentives to have friends on your friends list). Our suggestions: allow us to visit friends bases (we would love to see how other players have designed their bases), provide benefits to players whose units were borrowed (incentivize having friends), add guild system so players can work in teams to achieve goals, add co-op content, aside from support units give us the option to show off our favorite characters in our profiles (example: we love DeLacey but shes not our strongest unit, yet Id like to show off the projections we own), in-game chat with stickers (make new stickers earnable through events), and lastly allow us to show off our accolades.
We started playing this game at global launch and we got into it for the adorable characters, wonderful artwork, fairly easy gameplay, and compelling storyline. Ive had no real complaints up until now. However, the most recent storyline event (at the time of this writing) ended so horribly that we dont really care what happens after this, unless it somehow gets fixed. Its so upsetting that we cant justify giving this company any more money or spending our time playing something thats just going to anger and depress us every time we look at it. Sorry, but you screwed up when you took our Sunshine away.
The game has charm. From the very first battle to the minute narrative interactions, Neural cloud does everything in its power to open a window in the auto-battler market and let the fresh air in. All to a fantastic soundtrack provided by Vanguard Sound. Unfortunately, it still doesnt leave its room and its starting to stink. Plagued by cascading menus, resource grind, repetitive combat, a barebones story, and a relatively small cast of character-ala-trope, Neural cloud fastens itself squarely within the gacha standard formula with a tease of what could be. Neural cloud could have been phenomenal if its aesthetic, cast, and procedural mission style were used to facilitate a more novel gameplay loop. But instead we got another auto-battler that recycles ideas from MICAs past work.
You're crazy if we're gonna sit through an hour of loading to install the game.
The rates are great and when you get a duplicate 3* they significantly compensate, the gameplay is fun, the art is so good, the chibi character models are very very cute.
(Revising post-Exception Protocal availability) Despite the repetition, we're still having a good time with Project Neural Cloud. MICA shenanigans still affect the character release schedule which can be annoying at times but the amount of free currency you get helps us forgive them since we always get the characters we want with ease without spending. Events are interesting, dailies are quick, and you can play the game for as long or as short as you want, but we think the problem for endgame players is the increasing difficulty of later stages. The new characters coming out are meant to ease the "PNC content is too hard" problem, but we lag behind CN so right now Clukay is essential for everything later down the line, alongside one's knowledge of the game's systems. 8/10, avoid it if you don't like auto-chess, roguelikes or chibis, 100% recommend if you do, and also like really hard challenges.
Ive tried to play rouge-likes and this is the only one ive stuck with for like two-three months. At first, the rewards are generous but when you get to the latter of the game end-game is mostly the limited events, and leveling up your units to make them strong enough ive been stuck on the 6th chapter of the story we usually play on auto to farm for materials, its a good game as a side-game, we wouldnt play it for more than 1hr-30mins.
We love Girls Frontine and wished we loved this game but we dont. We hate the gameplay it gets so boring and repetitive.
China's version is too high, and the American version is only 1.4.
We couldnt log in daily for a week because we were traveling and now we lost an account we had since release we had spent money on the game too and had quiet a good account very disappointed.
Yet another CN game trying to cash grab global players. They are releasing a unit 6 months early that will invalidate previous units. A must have limited character that was meant for the anniversary. Released now simply to fomo people into opening their wallets. Ive supported this game through the banner schedule changes and hoped that was the worst of things but this is over the line. Sad to leave since the game is fun, and good story but they clearly respect underhanded methods to squeeze customers over telling their story well (since the banner changed also mess up the storytelling). People said Mica was a company the really cared about telling their stories but we guess that is only for CN players.
Fake rate up system, we have pulled for 4 character and 4 got nearly pity. Its not rate up, its fake up system.
We made some bad moves and lost our account but the customer service was top tier and easy to understand and they helped us get our account back.
Such a fun and strategic game , the RNG of the skills is very different play style its really cool. Im still fairly new, but man Im very interested to play more. We do wish there were more male characters but its okay, waifus are cool too.
Very fun game, nice story but doesnt take much time to read, literally a sentence or two here and there. Super fun battle styles, mostly strategy. Characters feel thought out and the ultimate ability animations are S tier. Immediate intro to the game could easily turn you off, but its like 10 seconds and then youre hooked.
We spent few for monthly card, but we must accept that its f2p friendly. Art and gameplay, all of them are perfect. And we love the story, we need more. Hope this game develop more and more. Edit: we got duplicated Vee, 1.
We dont normally leave reviews but Neural Cloud is easily one of the best gacha games on the market. Simply put, – Ridiculously generous, given the rates, probably amongst the best F2P experiences for a gacha – Rates and Pity are much better than any counterparts. No dupes are required. – Actually interesting story – Content is not time-gated – Events are easily accessible to new players – Any grinding necessary can be auto-run quickly and fairly efficiently. Same goes for gameplay – And obviously great waifus. (And cute chibis, the animation for when you drag them around is ) Anyone moderately invested in gacha games will be familiar with the age-old Girls Frontline. Mica has clearly taken their experience with their previous games and narratives and made something incredible. There is no weak prologue or better in the later chapters, the story is streamlined and the dialogue is relevant. One of the biggest pluss is that there are no annoying characters, no idealistic pacifists, no ridiculous melodrama, which is easily one of the most sensible things about the story compared to most other games. Also pretty bug-free, in fact the core client is rock solid and with how much freebies you get for every minor issue, we actually wouldnt mind seeing more. And of course, PNC is apart of the GFL universe so collab units / popular dolls previously seen in GFL showing up is a common occurrence, which also opens up the lore. For ex. We have started around 2 weeks ago, pulled 50 times, own every unit we want (more than half the 3*s), and have 500 pulls saved. And no we are not a whale (<$100 spent). Yeah theres luck involved but we can only speak from our experience. Imo re-rolling is 100% worth if youre starting around a good banner glhf.
So far this game has been really really good, one of the best team builders by far, alongside games like Mobile Legends: Adventure or even like Honkai Impact. The only thing we feel like its lacking is voice acting for the story parts, that would make this game a solid 10/10 for us.
The story is interesting and we were hooked for a month or two, but logging on everyday became boring and repetitive. The events are monthly and too infrequent for our liking. When we reached the end of the main story, we basically just listlessly did our dailies. Other than the lack of new content, the game is great.
Yes, it a good game but now it turn out to be a fan service game with more and more sexualized female characters. Its ok to focus on fan service to make money but the unbalanced genders in this game seem to be like others game(trash games). Since the released, there only 2 male character and the rest are females and they become too much. Like the new character with that extreme bib boobs for what? We dont know who idea to make that character but he/she definitely a pervert or and idiot. We want more cool characters not perverts thing or over sexualized female. PLEASE STOP.
Until we decided to pay for gems, game just not let us do it. We tried every methods to fix it but to no avail. Three stars until this is fixed.
The game has high quality everything and is a perfect side game. The only reason we gave it 3/5 was that we are missing the f2p currency activity for all severs outside CN. Ill still play but we will not make anymore purchases until this disparity is directly talked about.
Like many other gacha games, at the start they give you the illusion of good gacha and then you are forced whale out for those characters. Rate up is a lie, somehow featured characters are harder to get than the others in the pool. The pity system is a joke, if you get a 3* that you already have that alone resets the pity back to 0, this has happened way too many times for it to be coincidence. Summon currency is very scarce, so F2P basically get crumbs to do anything worthwhile.
First the strong points: the graphics, the story, the character designs. Everything else is truly either a toss up or bad. Collecting characters doesnt feel good, theres barely anyone to collect at all anyway, gameplay(while inventive) ultimately begins to get muddled very quickly. The micro transactions dont feel rewarding for their cost, and the free hook rewards are just not attractive enough to bother with. We had high hopes, but after playing for a week it just loses all steam it had through the first chapter of the game outside the intro. It had the right parts, but didnt get assembled into some that will last. Not like it is now anyways.
This game is rigged theres noway to get past the layer 2 boss on chapter 2.
Title says it all. You wont get far unless you spend money to draw worthy units. Its just a money sink – and a really bad one at that. Dont waste your time or money.
Its one of the mostAddictive game that we played so far.
Been having a hard time finding any iOS game worth our time and Neural Cloud fits the bill! We love the gameplay, characters, story, and the Gacha and RPG elements. 10/10 so far from us. Looking forward to future content.
So far this game looks amazing upon launch. The art and live2D of characters is great, the gameplay is quite innovative on the auto play genre being mixed with roguelike and gacha elements. It is also not as battery heavy as some of the other mobile games we have played. Voice acting is great as well. One of our gripes would be that we cant bind account with Apple, Google, or other methods once you played a bit through the Guest account and you have to settle with making a custom account.
We really like how when one of your unit uses her ultimate they have like a little animation thats just really amazing and cool also adding a global chat in the game would be better because with it its fun to chat with others.
The game is phenomenal from the f2p to the animations, music and etc. However there is one underlying problem. The keys. When you start you have an abundance of keys however as you progress and newer stages unlock the key cost grows exponentially making it so that you have to wait days just to progress to the next stage.
Really what Ive been looking for in a fun gacha f2p with lots of fun, seriously addicted cant wait for more content to come out.
We love the game so much cant wait for season one and more stories and more characters.
This is literally the best crafted gacha game out there. Historical in that for the first time we are seeing a highly crafted game with gorgeous art, deep character development and strategy that ALSO has screen quality writing. The writing is pitch perfect. The art is beautiful. YES the introductory tutorial is way to long, (dev team we beg you to slim it down); but for any serious gamer, its worth it. It is SO worth it.
Look Im not a bot but this game is just so fun like the tutorial is quick the characters are unique the story is really good and it definitely has rougelite elements.
Usually we give these games up but this was actually fun and the gacha is good! Already have more than half the dolls (spent like $5 bc im impulsive) PLUS THERES MEN.
Recommend to anyone to play, art style is awesome, economy is great, its just an all around great game.
As an avid player of Girls Frontline and enjoyer of its story, is wonderful to see another entry to the series. Neural Clouds story is engaging off the bat, coupled with high quality art of both scenes and characters. The characters are lovable and charismatic, giving true incentive collect them. The gameplay is fun and progression is rewarding. We cant wait for new events. Thank you Mica Team.
This game is INCREDIBLY polished, looks amazing, theres so much to do and the story is actually interesting and isnt too hard to follow along. There really isnt any reason to skip this, unless of course youre allergic to really well-made games. Ive been near addicted for the last three days and we dont plan to stop anytime soon. Get it – youre missing out.
Games enjoyable like the graphics and designs.
Amazing game the animation is just perfect and we wished this was an anime too.
Im tired of playing games and just skipping through boring dialogue. Im tored of rushing towards endgame goals and stats. NC has delivered. Quality content. Great story. Awesome content. No 6 slot runes/equipment but a cool utility resource in algorithms. The functions component makes the game unique and not repetitive gridning. The dialogue is amazing. Good humor, not overly sexual or crude. Great story telling. And above all, a great game that isnt about sexualizing their characters. Tired of seeing gacha games where the only appeal is how alluring or sexual they can make their characters.
We love the overly simple play style it offers and heres the best part, it explains in the lore why you are commanding chibi characters over a hexagonal battle field. The story is also intriguing.
Im really liking this game so far as a GFL 1 enjoyer its just different enough to keep us playing Girls Frontline still as well! The mechanics are really nice and gameplay is smooth as to be expected from Mica and Sunborne. The art is topnotch so chefs kiss on that! Definitely a mainstay for us.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.0
- Size: 3,757.22 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Sunborn Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Last updated: 23rd October 2024 | Genre: Strategy | Developer: Sunborn Network Technology Co., Ltd.