Forever Skies just left early access. Has anyone played it? What do you think?
I got and played this game a few months ago. It’s… fine, I guess? It’s about the same as every other survival crafting game with linear progression. A reskin of Raft / Subnautica / The Forest / Valheim etc. but without the charm or new mechanics which made those games worthwhile. It doesn’t do anything really unique or novel besides the aesthetic which gets pretty bland after a bit, but I haven’t played to the end of the game, so maybe the areas get more interesting than rusted metal and concrete which makes up 90% of what you see at all times.
On the plus side though, it’s fairly polished except for a few gamebreaking bugs (not being able to place anything being the worst one, but it was fixed after a restart and may be fixed with this update). It does the whole linear survival crafting game well enough so if you like games with the loop of exploring hand crafted dungeons to unlock recipes to be able to go to the next dungeon and repeat, doing chores to keep hunger and thirst up in between dungeons, then you’ll probably like this one.
Personally I wouldn’t recommend it though since it feels like the extent of the developers’ idea for the game was “what if we just made Raft, but the apocalypse was dust instead of water”
Overspark@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Haven’t heard of it before, but it does look interesting
random_character_a@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have, but I’ve skipped buying it, because I was in the impression that it was severely incomplete and lacked real content.
It’s either another early access scam or fast dedicated devs.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, when it very first came out, there was about four to six hours of content to be had. I don’t think two years in EA is that short of a time, you’re just used to games existing in a perpetual EA status so that they can excuse their bugs. I played Forever Skies, and I would say it deserves the Very Positive review status it has. It has a mournfully lonely feel to it, a sad sort of resignation at the fate of a humanity that didn’t go out in a bang, but the last wisps of which sputtered out like a candle dying in the ever present winds.