Skyhook is a low quality furry friendly 2D retro pixel arena brawler (like Super Smash Bros but really bad). It's differentiated by "hooks" you can swing on like Spider-Man, so there's absolutely zero originality here in this woefully bad "me-too" arena brawler. There is a campaign mode, however, so you could play this against the AI if you want, because no actual gamers play this (see below).
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result.
While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals.
PC gamers will understandably be insulted by the developers choice to display only console peasant childrens toy gamepad prompts, despite this never being released on consoles (presumably because it was rejected by Microsoft/Sony due to the poor quality). Developers should at least try to understand which game platform they're developing for. This is an unacceptable insult to PC gamers.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Skyhook has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for climbing the deck of the main menu (trivial to do, can be done in seconds of starting the game), but less than 4 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch.
Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show less than 4 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who weren't even playing the game? Trading cards. Players will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game. That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.
The game contains stock/store assets/libraries/packages, but the "developer" here hasn't credited the people who actually did the work for the game. In some cases like the pirate ship sound they ripped from FreeSounds, this breaches the BY4.0 accreditation license agreement the developer signed for the use of those assets (I know, I sat through the game credits to make sure the developer properly credited the creator and they didn't, so they wilfully violated the license). Claiming credit for the work of others as well as breaching software licenses is highly unethical. Gamers should be made aware when a developer behaves unethically and breaches license/copyright agreements, as buying games from unethical developers puts the gamers money at risk.
Skyhook has the comically over-optimistic price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk.
