Forever Skies

I was really really really enjoying this game...UNTIL the new update which has basically made the hours I invested in building a ship, worldbuilding, etc. are now completely unplayable due to the new mechanics (unless I want to completely deconstruct my entire ship to put down one new item to make it somewhat functional) I work a full time job and really don't want to start a new save when I spent hours in between my ten hour shifts building this one. Thank you for the hours I invested in this game, but now it is just going to be one of those indie games that I never touch again Update: Well, the devs absolutely impressed me. Not often do you post something game breaking and a dev personally responds and has it fixed in a day (that alone is enough for me to support them). This game on its own has been a massive joy for me! It is a very unique take on a post-apocalypse style game where you build your flying base, explore, and try to save what is left of humanity in orbit. I would highly recommend this game now. Thank you devs for caring about your community and their feedback!

4/10 I want to like this game, I really do, the blimp building is cool, but that is all this game has going for it, everything else is so half assed it’s just so sad. Location variety, biome variety, enemy variety, base part variety, all are non-existent. Basically, once you’ve been to one radio tower you’ve been to them all, fought one dumb bug thing fought them all, built one blimp room built them all. In addition to that, combat is not fun in an annoying speed bump way. The story is just kind of uninteresting mid. I find it impossible to build a cockpit that has good visibility. The blimp doesn't have any lateral movement. The pipe system is complete trash. Don't have enough decorative ship parts or furniture. Inventory is too small, and upgrades are uninteresting and unrewarding. And to top it all off the optimization for this game is horrible for a game that is as ugly as this one. All this game does is crash crash crash crash.

Another example why you should never buy Early Access games. Most of the time you only get unfinished crap. This game plays even worse in its "final release", than during early access: - the gameplay is boring and tedious. - getting the advanced ship equipment is just painfully boring grind. (this was easier during early access) - The map/radar is horrible: There is no chance to find the same place again. No manual markers to set. No north/south orientation. - The performance is also horrible as the game eats up all GFX-Mem. Even with low texture settings 8GB are not enough. And as soon as the GFX-Mem is full the game is a stuttering mess. After I went down with the elevator in one place and spend lots of crystal batteries for the oxygen supplies, I dared to do some "side-quests", before finishing the short main story, and thus left that elevator tower. After you do that, there is zero chance to find that same elevator tower again! The main quest marker always points to different elevator towers, where you again have to spend all the crystal batteries for the oxygen supplies. And finally that main quest marker pointed to a location behind one of those barriers, so that I could not reach it again at all. Although I was already there before! I’m aborting my “final release” play through now. This was a waste of money and time. Congrats to the Devs for providing another pointless trash-game to the market.

Some games you can tell the designers put a lot of thought into the points of interest and thought carefully about the player experience. Unfortunately Forever Skies is not one of those games. Even playing for just a few hours you can tell the level design is sloppy and repetitive. Ship controls are rudimentary and it feels more like driving a car in than an airship. The entire premise of the game seems to be that strong winds push around immense amounts of dust yet your airship ignores it completely and flies as if on rails. Just overall disappointing and poorly designed.

Spent it's time in early access but now seems to be going through a rework? What is early access for then? Why release the game into 1.0 if it's obviously not done? Reply to the developer comment: It's not really more content, it's reworking (Or re-designing, in your own words) content that was half baked after early access, with some new things here and there as part of that. The whole point of early access is to build the game along with feedback from the players. To then release in 1.0, sell at full price with people believing that product is now complete only to then spend an entirely additional year (And potentially more) reworking the game content because of feedback is dishonest and that's what's worthy of a negative review. It should have just been kept in EA for another year. Just as an added note, saying you could have left the game as is instead of taking reacting to feedback doesn't make it sound benevolent, it sounds more like a "praise us for fixing the game instead of taking your money and running.", not a good look.

Forever Skies has a refreshing core concept. Instead of building a base on the ground, you must stay airborne and construct, expand, and maintain your own airship to explore the world. This creates a unique gameplay loop and gives exploration a different feel compared to many other survival games. Unfortunately, the story lacks depth. While the journey toward the ending provides a sense of purpose and gives the player clear objectives to work toward, the narrative itself remains very simple and linear throughout. There are no meaningful choices to make, and the plot rarely develops beyond its basic premise. Exploration is enjoyable at first, but the world suffers from limited variety. Many locations start to feel familiar after a while, and the sense of discovery can fade rather quickly. Depending on your tolerance for repetition, the exploration may become monotonous long before the game reaches its conclusion. From a technical perspective, however, the game performs well. During my playthrough, it was stable, polished, and largely free of significant technical issues. The ending itself is probably the game's weakest point. The final sequence feels underdeveloped and lacks any real sense of impact or closure. The presentation is bland, the consequences of your actions are barely noticeable, and there is little effort to show how the world or its characters are affected by what you have accomplished. Instead, the game simply drops you into an endless sandbox mode after the credits, making the finale feel disconnected and somewhat hollow. In the end, I cannot give a clear recommendation one way or the other. Whether Forever Skies is worth your time is something each player has to decide for themselves. While the core idea is interesting and the game is technically solid, I do not feel that the amount of content and overall experience fully justify the regular asking price. At a discount, however, it is certainly worth considering for fans of survival and exploration games.

I played the game when it first released in Early Access and greatly enjoyed it. I pretty much bulldozed all of the content that was available at the time. I put it on the shelf to wait till release and recently got the itch to give the full game a go. Unfortunately, if you're a player like me that is very sensitive to screen shake, I cannot recommend the game. At some point between Early Access launch and now the gathering tool was changed to shake the screen whenever it is used and there is no way to disable it. For someone like me, the game is completely unplayable because of it. I hope when the recently announced update releases I can come back and change my recommendation.

With friends, the game crashes so frequently and so much progress is lost that the game becomes very tedious, having to redo hours of work. Don't play with friends until they fix coop features.

Forever Skies Tolle Idee, aber auf Dauer einfach zu langweilig. Am Anfang macht Forever Skies tatsächlich einen richtig guten Eindruck. Die ersten ein bis zwei Stunden haben mich komplett abgeholt. Man hat ständig das Gefühl, noch etwas Neues entdecken zu können. Jede neue Plattform oder Ruine weckt die Neugier, man sammelt Ressourcen, verbessert sein Luftschiff und möchte einfach wissen, was als Nächstes kommt. Leider hält dieses Gefühl nicht lange an. Nach kurzer Zeit merkt man, dass sich die Spielwelt ständig wiederholt. Die meisten Orte sehen fast identisch aus, wodurch das Erkunden schnell seinen Reiz verliert. Statt Vorfreude auf die nächste Entdeckung denkt man sich irgendwann nur noch: "Das habe ich doch alles schon gesehen." Auch die Story schafft es nicht, einen bei der Stange zu halten. Sie wirkt eher wie ein Vorwand, um von einer Location zur nächsten zu fliegen, anstatt wirklich Spannung oder Motivation aufzubauen. Es fehlt einfach ein Moment, der einen neugierig macht oder emotional mitreißt. Am Ende läuft das Spiel fast immer gleich ab: Man fliegt durch die Gegend, sammelt Ressourcen, baut ein bisschen am Luftschiff weiter und fliegt zur nächsten nahezu identischen Location. Anfangs macht das Spaß, aber mit der Zeit wird es einfach eintönig und fühlt sich mehr nach Arbeit als nach Abenteuer an. Die Grundidee von Forever Skies finde ich wirklich stark, und optisch hat das Spiel definitiv seinen Charme. Leider reicht eine gute Atmosphäre allein nicht aus, wenn Gameplay und Abwechslung auf der Strecke bleiben. Für mich ist Forever Skies deshalb eine Enttäuschung. Es startet stark, verliert aber schon nach wenigen Stunden deutlich an Motivation. Wer monotones Ressourcen-Sammeln mag, kann hier vielleicht länger Spaß haben. Ich persönlich hatte jedoch schnell das Gefühl, immer wieder dasselbe zu machen – und genau das hat mir den Spielspaß genommen. Fazit: Forever Skies verschenkt unglaublich viel Potenzial. Der Einstieg macht Hoffnung auf ein spannendes Survival-Abenteuer, doch schon nach wenigen Stunden fällt das Spiel in einen eintönigen Kreislauf aus Fliegen, Ressourcen sammeln und immer gleichen Locations. Die Story ist zu schwach, um die fehlende Abwechslung auszugleichen, und echte Motivation, weiterzuspielen, kommt kaum auf. Für mich war der anfängliche Spielspaß schnell verflogen. Was als interessantes Abenteuer beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einer monotonen Routine, die mich eher gelangweilt als unterhalten hat. Deshalb kann ich Forever Skies aktuell nicht empfehlen. Vielleicht ändert sich das mit zukünftigen Updates, aber in seinem jetzigen Zustand hat mich das Spiel leider nicht überzeugt.