Winged Cloud is an English-language Visual Novel developer, best known for the creation of the Sakura series, starting with Sakura Spirit in 2014 and continuing to the present day with over 45 different entries.
Works with Trope Pages:
- Sakura Dungeon (released June 2016)
Tropes Associated with Winged Cloud:
- Author Appeal: Winged Cloud clearly has a thing for fox girls, given how often they appear in their games. Spirit, Dungeon, and Fox Adventure (naturally) all feature kitsune main characters, while Swim Club has a character dress up in a fox girl bikini for a scene. They even went so far as to design a custom fox girl mascot named Lily for let's player and long-time Sakura series fan Noble, otherwise known as Lost Pause.
- Cute Monster Girl: Many of the titles released focus on one as a protagonist, such as Sakura Fox Adventure, Sakura Succubus, and Sakura Alien.
- Excuse Plot: Really, it seems like plot in their games is an afterthought and only serves as a means of putting their characters in incredibly lewd situations.
- Idle Game: Sakura Clicker, released in 2015, focuses on clicking Cute Monster Girls for coins, spending those coins on passive upgrades, and then resetting to gain more coins in subsequent runs.
- Only Six Faces: Character portraits during the novel sections tend to have near-identical eyes, nose, and mouth placement. This is exemplified in Sakura Clicker, which mixes and matches face and body templates to randomly generate its enemies, and allows the player to customize a heroine character and has outfits from Sakura Spirit as paid DLC, allowing the player to perfectly recreate various characters from that story using a base rig with very few options.
- Self-Censored Release: In order to avoid the restrictions of Adult content on platforms such as Steam, the majority of the company's works are released as safe-for-work versions requiring external patching to restore uncensored content.
