The aerial survival game Forever Skies puts you on a course to find a cure for humanity in its toxic sea of clouds.
Somewhere at the edge of the galaxy in No Man’s Sky located on a large, verdant planet with an abandoned but still operational launch ship on it. I left it there in 2016 after spotting a larger ship in the wild, but it’s a decision that still haunts me to this day. You see, I was so excited about my new suit that I didn’t realize it didn’t have a working superdrive, which is needed to pierce the atmosphere to visit another solar system. . It turned out that this particular planet also didn’t have any of the resources needed to create a new planet, leaving me with my only escape in my tiny starter ship – now out of sight, of course. where anymore. I spent hours looking for that little ship, but the planet was so vast that I never saw it again.
Air survival game coming soon Eternal sky Thankfully, there aren’t many major planets to lose your sole means of transportation. In it Demo of Steam Next Fest At least, the only things I can land my makeshift plane on are tiny, rusty platforms set atop rotting skyscrapers on an Earth ravaged by plague and day. ecological apocalypse. But the fear of being stuck somewhere I shouldn’t have never left me, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t just a scared teenager jumping off my ship and found that I couldn’t get to back it up again.
I really don’t need to be so cautious. Despite a landing attempt that throws out all sorts of alarms and warning signals, when you touch down completely, your ship is anchored in place, leaving you free to roam and search for resources at will. . This can be scrap metal or synthetics – which you can stick to your builder later to craft more elaborate equipment for your ships – or you might be lucky enough to find some fake sun melons growing in a patch of soil to help you keep your hunger levels at bay.
You’ll also need to keep your thirst levels under control in Forever Skies, and while these little outcrops will sometimes contain rather questionable cans of ‘old water’, you can collect dirty rainwater that collects in the dishes. satellite rust as long as you got an empty bottle to hand. Of course, you wouldn’t want to drink this literal dishwashing liquid. That won’t affect your health much. But you can plug it into your onboard water dispenser to make it drinkable when you’re on your way back.
Really, though, every time you land on one of these crumbling towers, you’re hoping for one thing: batteries. Despite their diminutive size, these big-ticket items are the fuel you’ll need to craft some of Forever Skies’ more ambitious ship units, such as a turbine to soar above the region-raving dust. land below. The timed Next Fest demo sadly ended before I could see the lofty pleasures I could achieve with my new turbine, but the expansive sandbox that the Far From Home developers have The creation here certainly piqued my interest.
It looks gorgeous, for starters. Blue clouds and clumps of harvestable materials floating in the wind create an evocative atmosphere as you trudge through your small spaceship. The ever-changing weather makes me feel lonely and vulnerable, like I really don’t want to consider this the last person alive and everything. Before I hit the road, I found the dessert husks of some former researchers I’ve been trying to get in touch with when I got back to this abandoned planet, and man, I bet that’s what it looks like. of my No Man’s Sky astronaut now, I fully guarantee that.
What interests me most, however, is how efficiently the Far From Home developers will be able to build the game’s plot across its massive open world. For the most part, a large portion of its initial plot was delivered via data cards and e-logs in the demo, although I also had to use batteries to power the laptop in the first place. However, it was read a lot, and mostly set the scene for what was already pretty obvious – that the Earth had been ravaged by an unidentified virus, and that an ecological catastrophe had ruined its surface. face below. However, the trailer that plays at the end of the demo definitely makes it look like there will be a suitable mystery to unravel over the course of the game, so I hope the sandbox nature of the world makes it easy. follow. My only worry is that I’ll really mess things up to the point where I won’t be able to find the Forever Skies miniseries on my travels, and I’m sure I won’t be able to avoid No. Man’s Sky it at some point and can not continue . This time I will go a little better.
Luckily, we won’t have to wait too long to find out, as Forever Skies will launch early access before the end of the year, with about 30 hours of survival to find out, according to its Steam page. Present The next demo of Fest It’s a single-player affair for now, but the devs have also said they hope to add four-player co-op in early access, which is something I’m definitely looking forward to. If I end up stuck on a skyscraper somewhere, here’s hoping I’ll be a little less lonely when I have a friend to enjoy the silence with.
