Forever Skies

Forever Skies is a first-person, post-apocalyptic action-survival game that lifts the survival genre high into the atmosphere. The world below has been destroyed by an ecological catastrophe, covering the Earth in a dense layer of toxic synthetic dust. You play as a lone scientist dropping in via an escape pod: grab your medical kit, collect abandoned log entries to piece together what went wrong, and construct a customizable high-tech airship that serves as your mobile base, laboratory, and home. [b]The Short Answer: Is It Worth Buying?[/b] Right now, only on sale. At full price, the available content loop doesn't quite match the ambitious vision promised in the trailers. However, if you loved Subnautica and want a aerial variant of that loop, it's definitely worth adding to your wishlist or grabbing on a discount. [b]Playtime[/b] 4/10 It takes around 10–11 hours to research virtually all available tech trees and explore current locations before hitting the content ceiling. [b]Story[/b] 4/10 You land on a ruined Earth covered in toxic haze, scanning artifacts and reading left-behind PDA logs to figure out what destroyed humanity while searching for a cure. [b]Music[/b] 3/10 Atmospheric synth and sci-fi ambient tracks that fit the desolate, lonely skies reasonably well. [b]Graphics[/b] 4/10 Visually reminiscent of early-stage Subnautica - functional aquatic/cloud vistas, though environments can feel a bit sparse. [b]Mechanics[/b] 6/10 The core loop focuses on piloting and expanding your airship, scanning environmental anomalies, managing hunger/thirst/sleep, and avoiding hazardous local flora. Combat mechanics are currently absent (though planned for future updates), so your primary threats are environmental hazards, disease, and resource depletion. Building and personalizing your airship is a major highlight. However, the game currently suffers from a lack of content depth; once your airship is built out and basic tech is researched, there isn't much left to push your survival skills. No - scanning items, following research blueprints, and managing airship modules is straightforward for survival genre veterans. On a positive note, the Ukrainian localization deserves credit - rather than relying on machine translation, it shows real care and proper adaptation. [b]Personal Take[/b] A promising sci-fi survival sim with a great foundational premise: taking the beloved Subnautica exploratory loop and lifting it into the clouds aboard a customizable airship. The survival loop literally turns the apocalypse into a buffet - since giant mutated dust moths eat the toxic debris, you harvest, cook, and eat the dust moths right back to manage your hunger! It is clearly still missing a lot of features, narrative depth, and promised combat mechanics. But if the developers continue expanding on the roadmap, it has strong potential to become a standout survival title. Grab it on sale for now or wait for substantial content updates down the line. [b]Overall Score:[/b] 72/100