Hi everybody! The Forever Skies team just surprise released an exclusive PlayStation 5 demo and it’s available today! The demo is designed specifically for PlayStation fans, so we’re sure it’ll be a lot of fun.
Forever Skies is a first-person sci-fi survival game where you build, fly, and customize your own mobile airship base while exploring a ruined Earth.
So let’s set the scene first. When a cloud of toxic dust permanently covered the Earth’s surface after an ecological disaster, humanity took the final step by relocating to temporary towers rising above the dust, relying on airships to move around. With all hope lost, the last remnants of humanity flee into orbit. You play as a scientist from this last civilization, sent back to Earth on an important mission to find a cure for the disease spreading throughout the space station, which houses the last humans. end of humanity.
Our demo is a vertical gameplay section specifically designed to provide a streamlined introduction to some of our best features. It will take you about 1.5 – 2.5 hours to complete.
So what can you expect? First, you will land back on Earth and need to hit the ground running. Details about what happened to the expedition before yours are scarce, so you’d better start piecing together what details you can.
Forage for supplies around you, use technology to unlock tools to help you gather food and water to survive, and most importantly, get your airship ready for takeoff and explore the world. Follow the story objectives as you explore towers that serve as radio centers, small makeshift towns, and wind farms from humanity’s past rebuilding efforts. Find out what it takes to survive here, harvest resources from the air or fish for bush caterpillars. Build and customize your airship to make it feel like your own, and experience being a scientist as you use technology and intelligence to improve the hostile world you’ve returned to. again.
This custom slice of our story and base game progression should take about an hour if you follow the objectives. You can then continue to explore the world more freely, with several open-world objectives to guide you around.
We’ve also added some great PlayStation 5 features to the demo. Thanks to the DualSense controller’s adaptive triggers, tools like the deck extractor, builder, and scanner all feel unique when you use them. We’ve also integrated haptic feedback for these tools and for other moments, like when you’re flying your spaceship. We’ve redirected some VO prompts to play through the control speakers, and we’ve made sure the demo supports both Performance and High Fidelity modes so you can play to your preference.
Most notably, while we’ve added special in-game rewards for truly dedicated scientists who complete the entire demo, for completing all objectives you’ll earn a free airship exclusive to PlayStation. You’ll be able to paint your hot air balloon in a PlayStation-inspired blue, and the look will be included in the full game when it launches—just make sure to keep your console demo save intact your.
However, that means we can’t pack everything our game has to offer into the demo. In the full game, you’ll also get to explore beneath the toxic dust, where an entirely new and mutated ecosystem has evolved. You will have access to even more tools and technology to survive and thrive, face the threat from advanced flora and fauna that grow in our absence, create fairy airships Go further and discover more unique locations. But most importantly, you’ll be able to play the entire game in single-player or online co-op with up to three friends.
We know we have a really large and dedicated PlayStation fanbase waiting for the full game, so we hope this special demo gives you a great first taste of what what’s going to happen. We’ve put a lot of work into it and look forward to hearing your feedback.
So head over to the PlayStation Store, download the demo, and start exploring. And if you really like the demo, please give us a wishlist so you’ll be notified when the full game releases in early 2025.
Thanks so much for reading and see you in the sky!
