Stratus: Battle For The Sky Reviews

Very early in development, but it really does faithfully reproduce the feeling of Netstorm. I'm very excited to see this progress toward full release.

i spent many many many hours playing netstorm when my dad randomly picked it up for me. and from what i can tell the art seems very similar and nice. the controls seem similar aswell if unfinished. sadly couldn't test out gameplay much at all. as there is no singleplayer yet and noone was online. tentatively i'd say its worth a purchase from what i did manage to see even if the price is a bit steep.

This game has a huge amount of potential and the devaloper was good to deal with still very early access but with some polish really promises to stay true to the games inspirations.

Been sitting in my game library for years now and they continue to not deliver anything playable, only buy this if you want to throw your money into a collection pit, these guys are RIPPING YOU OFF as they haven't done anything for years!

Game is almost completely unplayable. I miss the old Netstorm. ;(

I am so happy someone is doing this, I loved Netstorm so much as a kid. Currently the game is playable with 2 of the 4 element factions available (Sun and Rain). It is very much still an early access title, the UI is a bit confusing and the unit animations are pretty crude, hit detection with turrets is wonky as hell, and while there is the option to play against AI - the AI is currently so bad that it doesn't even make bridges (which is how you actually expand your territory and take resources). The playerbase is... not there yet, so if you're gonna pick this up I recommend bringing a friend so you actually have somebody to fight lol. Despite the shoddy condition the game is in, I do recommend it, basically because the original was so much fun that I already know the potential that this game has, and I want it to be able to get to the point of flourishing.

I absolutely loved netstorm so much and was so excited when i seen this game appear on steam i am happy to buy a game that is still being developed and support it being made but nothing seems to be happening with it at all i dont understand this i would love to just open a dedicated server for netstorm again as this has just been a big tease managed to get it to play once and everytime i have tried since cannot build a temple so then cant build anything hope that this game goes ahead and would love to hear from developers if its money help they need cause i can support but not a coder

I was really excited to see a remake of Netstorm. I played the game when i was a child in the 90's and loved the idea of the game and how it played. And after seeing the screenshots and video of the game i expected that when i downloaded it. I however was met with a "MAKE AN ACCOUNT" screen that looked older than an AOL software. i do not understand why you would need to make an account to play a game on steam when it does not even use a 3rd party launcher from something like Ubisoft or Nexon. After making my account i "logged in" to an empty sky with no menu, no hud, no nothing. No tutorial on what to do and no menu to even give me an idea of what the hell is going on. I clicked around in frustration until i closed the game. Once i did this it started updating, once that finished i opened it up again and this time i had a MASSIVE chatbox (like 60% of my screen) and my island with my name in size 40px font. There was only one person online and he was very friendly and me and him were having the same issues. When we joined a ring and started a game both of us noticed something missing, our island... We left and tried again, same thing. Went and started a game by ourselves, same thing. We could not place bridges, or buildings, or anything because we had no island to do anything with. Our priest was simply dangling in the air where our island should be. There is no right click options like on Netstorm, where if you right clicked a geyser, priest, or anything it would give you information about it or allow you to select skills or to build structures. Nothing. The game was literally unplayable. The description of the game on steam says "single player" as well. This is a lie, there is no single player only multiplayer that doesnt even work. Atleast No Mans Sky gave us a working version of a game when they released it on steam. Ive bought many early access games like 7 Days to Die, Rust, The Forest, Subnautica, Ghost in the Shell, and more. And i got what i paid for. An early access version of the game while in a working state is not completed. This is not even an ALPHA version. I honestly dont know why there are so many positive reviews when this game has so many issues. Starting to think everyone posting here were paid by the devs to do so. I saw one review saying the developer gave him a key, so they were probably all bought off. I really do hope they push this and make it into an actual game in the future because theres a huge netstorm fan base.

Well i expected some "early access" trouble, but the game screams that it's badly programmed. I've spent some time just trying to launch a game and build my temple, only to discover that bridge building and units also glitch. Puzzling UI, graphics that are worse than original. I can't see any future here. Original is still playable on Win10 and is still fun. It's sad.

I really wanted this game to be all the things that I missed from Netstorm. I understand what early access means but the game is oh so broken. Play-ability is almost non-existent. I hope my donation to the "cause" is repaid one day, because this game has the opportunity to be great if done correctly. I look forward to updating my review if that happens.