Old Skies

Genuinely one of the best narratives I've ever experienced in an adventure game. The cultural/political/personal repercussions of the time travel mechanics of this world will trigger an existential crisis in even the most jaded of us out there. You can only play something this good for the first time once, so I'm not including any game details. Thanks for this game, devs! https://www.twitch.tv/crustyoldhuman i be streaming this game and other weird indie games on that channel. come join!

great game! i hope they make a sequel!

Old Skies is a really enjoyable modern point-and-click adventure game. I enjoyed going to different time periods of New York City and seeing how the characters reacted. I did find the story interesting in that the character is really engaged and generally happy when in the past, but really disillusioned in her present, which constantly changes around her. The gameplay mechanics were pretty good too, especially the puzzles involving time travel (although the death ones are usually just trail and error) and I especially liked the ending puzzle in Chapter 6. I also enjoyed a lot of the dialogue between characters, which was funny and insightful. The one thing I don't really care for is the close up art, which I think looks blocky and unfinished. I also think the game drags a bit around Chapters 3 & 4, and it's better played as "episodes" that you take a break and come back to instead of playing all at once.. I also didn't care for the protagonist's romance, although I'm not much of a fan of romance in games in general. Still, the game is good overall and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a modern point-and-click game, especially if they aren't fond of the retro pixel art style that Wadjet Eye Games and others frequently use. Full disclosure: I was a beta tester on this game. I sent *way* too many bug reports about subtitle mismatches, and I hope players appreciate them all being fixed in the final version!

I loved it! It's a really fun story with varied twists and turns, and the ending felt very powerful to me. Thank you for some very surprising tears.

This game is a masterpiece i absolutely adored it. The time, effort, and deliberate decisions and choices in both game design and story design can be seen clear as day. Absolute masterpiece 9.4/10

wadjet eye are top tier and this is one of their best

This game is simply brilliant! One of the finest adventure games i've played to-date. Everything about this game shines - puzzles, pacing, length, story, visuals, satisfaction and engagement. Truly Wadget Eye Games have found the secret sauce with this one, you just have to stick with it for about 20-30 mins so it gets it's hooks into you. If there was a quible to mention, it's the character dialogue style, while not terrible by any means, it's sort of a bit over explainy (if that's even a word or a thing...) the characters talk like hyper intelligent people who fill in all the blanks for you. The outcome of that is a mild deficit in the conversations - you don't feel like you're watching conversations as much, as you're having things explained to you, so you don't get to fill in the blanks yourself. The net effect of having someone 'explain things' is you can at times either feel preached to, condscended to, or it just comes off as being a bit forced. The general dialogue pivots between moments of brilliance and the other three points... mildly. If the developer employed a professional writer in this area to smooth this out, the game would be in an unparalleled class of it's own. To be fair though, it's something the entire genre suffers from at times, so take those comments with a grain of salt, if you like adventure games you'll love this, just the dialogue side of things needs to sounds a bit more natural at times and hopefully that's something the developer (and any devs who make AG's) will take onboard. That all being said this game is sheer brilliance in every other form - buy it!

I love any game set in the Blackwell universe. Old Skies has a beautiful story with fun and poignant time-travel settings in NYC. Loved how long the gameplay was, and the voice acting is top-notch.

Straight forward point and click although not really a pixel hunting, item gathering game so much as story driven adventure that requires some mild puzzle solving.

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