Forever Skies Reviews

Game starts like many other survival games, nothing unusual there, everything moves and happen in snail pace, then you reach point where you need to build wall to attach turbine to, guess what, building a wall in this game takes you to go trough endless posts and youtube videos how to even do that because it do not snap to anything. I buid it inside a ship because of mu lack of knowledge and will to push questline further, oh joy, i needed to remove it, but ofc materials are gone and you can't get more copper without build a wall and attach turbine to it, so bascially i needed to restart whole game after flying around for 2h+ trying to find more copper. At this time, game needs A LOT more time in the oven and fix things like simple wall building.

Bought the game on sale a while ago. Played through tutorial. At the end of the tutorial is about 35 minutes of "shooting gallery" of standing still at the edge of a platform, zapping random pieces of garbage that float by. Crafting items is boring. Make a crafter that converts 10 x into 1 y. y has no use except to be converted into z, in another crafter (at another 10 y to 1 z). Each shooting gallery item gives you 1 or, maybe, 2 x's. This isn't gameplay, its chore simulating combined with obvious playtime padding and just about the most banal way to go about it. I dunno how the developers managed to make a game about sci-fi airships boring, but here we go. The game is beyond repetitive, boring, and banal.

Really nice game with good stories, exploration, crafting, free world open. Really one of the game i am eager to see its 1.0 release. Keep up the good work DEV !

Very chill Early Access survival crafting game - not much in the way of combat mechanics (at time of writing have only encountered 4 hostile entities) nice mixture of scavenging and adventure with a fairly well built out story.

This is EA af.... You get stuck on invisible ledges, fall through the floors, movement mechanics are clunky, game is not ready. Wait until maybe July 2025 or a bit later for a more flushed out game. This plays like an alpha. Also, there are some pretty severe frame dips. goes from ~100 fps to ~20 for a few seconds for no real reason... on a 4090.

As of the last major optimisation update the game runs a lot better. finally finishing the story so far and researching/collecting nearly everything. IM ABSOLUTELY LOVING THIS. def better with friends but solo was very enjoyable and im not even a big solo player.

First off, amazing game. However, you get 5 stars for being such a refreshing divergence from the norm. It is all to common for games to come out and have issues, but the devs just ghost the players. We get that they are busy, but even communication updates are nice. Then there is you, who updates and communicates on an extremely regular basis. Adm the dedication to the players is amazing. Real example: In Beta still, there was an issue experienced by a small group of people where the backpack would be locked and could not be removed. This happened to me, and it truly sucked. I went onto the forums and found the issue was being mentioned, but super low in all the threads. Nevertheless, I made my comment and decided this issue would probably not get solved for a long time. I logged out, expecting to not log back in till release. Then, barely a week later, Hotfix Whatever.Blah came out (I don't remember the name) and they mentioned they fixed it, but had real issues recreating it on the back end. We are supposed to let them know if the issue persists. Think about that. A small group of players had an issue, voiced the complaint, and the devs fixed it ASAP and requested open communication about it. That is how it should be, and yet how it never happens. Thank you for the amazing game. Thank you for the communications. Thank you.

unfortunately i found out after buying it my pc wasnt supposed to run it. it was fun even though it was choppy! if you have the specs by all means play it!

tldr: its raft, but in the sky. The game was a good time. there was no real depth to the story. it starts off with you trying to cure this stuff that happened, and nothing really changes from that goal through the whole game. no real extra interest. any in game lore you find is just people leaving messages about how they failed one thing or another. the game isn't finished yet, so they might improve this. but for now the story is pretty straight forward. Pros: the progression for the most part feels pretty good. you get pretty steady upgrades, even though they are pretty minor as they progress. the crafting is satisfying, and gathering resources and using them feels just as good. they have an "unstuck" button. which has really saved me a bunch of times. Cons: this will be longer because there are alot of issues with the game that are mostly fun related, and not so much game breaking. there were a few times where it isn't exactly clear what you are supposed to do, and if you need to find a resource, the game doesn't really tell you. i had to google a few things which is lame. especially when there is a book in the game you can reference for all sorts of information. like helium for example. i didn't understand that they were on wind farms. in the game they just need to put a note saying something like "i found this on a wind farm" after you find it. also with epoxy, and a few other resources you can block your way out of story progression for a while. requiring you to have to fly for a while and reset your world and reexplore the area to get those resources back. its not bad, just annoying and not fun. this happened a few times. farming... man does this need work, their hydroponics is just a wild shit show. getting water tanks to communicate with pipes and go from point to point. it feels really bad and i probably spent a few hours just trying to get this going. only in the last couple hours of the game after getting some of the last available blueprints. which felt bad. all in all the game is actually pretty great. i can't wait for the game to go gold so i can finish it.

This will be more of a negative review *for now* as I plan on updating it later on when, hopefully, the state on some of its problems are resolved: TL/DR: Absolutely great game, but performance issues are unsustainable and the game seriously lack some better UI/QoL on some areas that, over time, really impact your playthrough. I would seriously consider those before buying. This game is actually REALLY good. For the most part, its very innovative, has good basebuilding, good graphics, some really cool mechanics and it does that thing that everybody always wanted: The possibility of literally driving your in-game base. Its literally the point of the game, to use your blimp to move around and upgrade it little by little. Some parts of the process can definitely feel confusing, specially the beginning. It sets you free after the tutorial and barely explain anything else until you actually start reaching wind farms and other new types of locations that unlock SO MUCH of the rest of that the game has to offer. Right now, thats the main problem I see in it though. Its usability in some of its concepts is.. soooo poor. Like building and moving things around can become such a hassle when you have to constantly *remove attachments*, which means, remove the things that are above or in this structure first. It creates this boring loop of, let me carefully select each of these chests and signs that I placed on this one storage support so that I can then move it. Now, move all of those *attachments* back into it. It lacks some UI functions/QoL that games like Grounded got it out of the park. Small things that become incredibly annoying later, like shift your mouse a millimeter to the side for the pick up/move item pop up appear on a planter instead of collecting the plant or things like that. IT IS A PAIN. And dont even let me start on the whole pipe and irrigation system. I have an anxiety attack when I think I have to change my irrigation system layout one more time. HOLY MOLY. But now, the biggest culprit of it all and the reason I am writing a negative review: PERFORMANCE. Sorry devs, your product is soooo dang good, but the performance NEEDS to be better. The undersdust sections are so bad.. I have a good computer. Not a high end, run star citizen smiling computer, but a good one nonetheless. Yet it struggles to run most underdust sections over 40 fps. It struggles to run the whole game on a good framerate. Right now I just reached the second important undersdust section and the game is unplayable. It crashes, it lags, it freezes, its insane. And no graphical settings change anything. Pleease.. fix this. All these nanomanagement and lack of better UI/QoL and terrible performance issues are ruining your game PS: It seems a bunch of setting are cramped inside post-processing. Huuge mistake devs. EDIT: The devs recently release a hotfix focusing a lot on improving performance. And it really did! I feel they really understand how bad of a problem it is and they seem dedicated to fixing it. I will keep the review negative for now, until I see either the next major patch or 1.0 .