I swear I have more hours on phone cuz I mainly play it on phone.
THE OPTIMIZATION IS REALLY BAD ON MOBILE. THIS IS THE ONLY PHONE THAT HEATS UP MY PHONE LIKE CRAZY TO THE POINT IT WONT ALLOW ME TO MULTITASK, SO THANK GOD THEY HAVE IT ON STEAM NOW. IT RUNS WITH GREAT GRAPHICS AND BETTER FPS HERE.
Been playing since 2020, I think it's a good game but you should drop it after finishing the main story because it just asks you to keep doing the ending over and over again after you do. It's great as a first experience but after that it's just??? "What the hell do I do now" ALSO IT'S JUST NOT WORTH IT TO PLAY IF YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS. IT'S A SOCIAL GAME, YOU'RE FORCED TO SOCIALIZE TO PROGRESS, YOU NEED TO RELY ON OTHER PEOPLE. The real fun you have in this game is for bonding with friends. If no friends then you're just looking to torture yourself.
Almost every friend I asked to play Sky enjoys it at first, collecting spirits, finishing quests, finishing story, but then it just gets boring after you do everything because you don't know what you're supposed to do. The game doesn't tell you how to grind, you have to learn it yourself from youtube videos. So they just end up dropping the game in a week. I'm also confused about what I'm supposed to do in this game after I finished every content.
But I'll tell you; what you have to do is to grind candles. You need to memorise the routes for lights/wax/candles/darkness plants to grind to the fullest. And what do we need to grind for? Cosmetics. To dress up your skykid. And that's it. During the season you also do quests for seasonal candles.
The problem is, it forces you to log in daily and dedicate full attention to the game for one whole hour to get 15-18 candles and finish your quests. And it takes me an hour because I've memorised the route, how long a realm takes, and I know the most efficient path. For people who don't it might take an hour. Also it caps at 20 candles so after that it's just not worth it to grind anymore. So IT REALLY FORCES YOU TO PLAY EVERYDAY for daily quests and the candle boost, which is horrible QoL for casual players and people who are busy.
I WANT TO NOTE. I SPENT 2 WHOLE YEARS CANDLE RUNNING 18-20 CANDLES A DAY AND I HAVE NOT FINISHED EVERY CONTENT IN THE GAME, I DON'T HAVE EVERY COSMETIC, I DON'T HAVE EVERYTHING FROM OLDER TRAVELING SPIRITS, BECAUSE THEY JUST DROP RANDOMLY. SO DON'T GET YOURSELF INTO THIS RABBIT HOLE.
BUT THE MAIN ISSUE IN THIS GAME IS THAT THEIR MARKETING TACTIC IS A FOMO TRAP. Almost everything good is from a limited-time event that comes back in a year, but it could take YEARS. Recently they've been having more collab seasons and events which makes it LIMITED LIMITED as in they either never come back or they come back after 2-3 years for a few days. Most of the FOMO stuff are also IAP, which means yes you would need to pay them like 50$ every month if you want everything. If you're new to the game then if you count older items from years ago you would need to pay them even more than that. DO NOT EVEN TRY TO BECOME A COLLECTOR IN THIS GAME. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID. I am F2P, the grind hell genuinely turns you into a zombie.
SO PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU. AFTER YOU FINISH THE MAIN STORY OR COLLECT THE BASE SPIRITS JUST DROP THE GAME, IT GETS DOWNHILL FROM THERE. DO NOT FALL TO THE TRAP OF THE CUTE FOMO COSMETICS. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE BETTER ONES. IF YOU WANT TO PLAY LONG TERM PRIORITISE YOUR HAPPINESS WITH FRIENDS.
