Cloud Kingdom Catch: Play the Wind Above the Floating Islands

Blue sky, floating islands and a hamster pilot

After so many dark, neon-lit shooters, Cloud Kingdom Catch feels like opening a window. The poster shows a pale blue sky, hot-air balloons, a windmill on a floating island and Pip, a hamster with a propeller cap and a brass slingshot, facing a crackling blue Storm Roc. The rules follow the fishing-game pattern: tap the scene to fire at that point, hold to keep firing, and a captured target pays its multiplier times your bet. Shots bounce off the edges until they hit, and a miss is refunded.

Every shot costs the bet times the weapon cost, and a higher bet powers the slingshot up through three looks. The server decides each capture.

Wind lanes, ricochets and gusts

Here is what separates Cloud Kingdom Catch from other free fishing games. The wind turns every 20 seconds. A feather dart fired with the wind ricochets to a nearby target, giving you a bonus chance from the same shot. Every shot also charges the wind meter; when it is charged and the wind changes direction, a gust sweeps the sky and captures targets for free. In practice, you start watching the wind arrow as much as the targets.

What flies past

The paytable climbs from the Paper Bird at ×2 through the Dandelion Seed (×3), Cloud Sheep (×5), Wind Wisp (×8), Sky Lantern (×10), Hot-air Balloon (×15), Sky Dragonfly (×20), Little Airship (×30) and Pegasus (×40). The Golden Goose pays a random ×50 to ×100. Two special targets:

• Storm Cloud: lightning strikes every target around it.
• Balloon Bunch: its balloons fly to up to seven targets for one combined prize.

Bosses arrive after a BOSS INCOMING alert and slip away if they cross the screen. The Sky Pirate Galleon pays a random ×100 to ×200, the Cumulus Titan ×120 to ×300. The Storm Roc is the awkward one: it dodges every few seconds and calls up the storm, and each storm level (six in all) raises its multiplier from ×150 to ×600. One shot can never pay more than 2,000 times the bet.

Dart, tornado or kite

• Feather dart (×1): single target, and the only shot that ricochets with the wind.
• Tornado shot (×4): spirals forward and sweeps up to six targets on its way.
• Lightning kite (×10): flies to its target, then lightning jumps to up to seven more.

Auto keeps firing; Lock follows the most valuable target or the one you tap.

A practical way to play Cloud Kingdom Catch free

Spend your first few minutes with the dart alone, at a small bet like the equivalent of 10p, and fire only in the direction the wind is blowing. You will see the ricochets quickly. Then note when the wind meter is full and wait for the turn: the gust is the moment the sky empties without any extra cost. Save the tornado for lines of sheep and lanterns, and the kite for a crowded sky. During the Storm Roc, Lock helps because the boss sidesteps.

There is nothing to install and no sign-up, and the game runs on phones as well as computers. The same game runs for real money at the casinos listed below.