Skytropolis Reviews

Recommended, but on sale. Only a few recoverable glitches here and there. can build VERY high. Have not unlocked everything yet, but can see a limitation after much more play. Very well done.

Great nastalgic memories of playing City Sim builders growing up. It would be awesome to have the fun natural disasters feature like Godzilla or Alien space ships destroying the city. Pre-built cities would be cool too.

Adorable city builder which really shines in VR roomscale setup (a sense that can't be conveyed from mere 2D screenshots). Being able to move around the city and scale it up and down as desired makes it feel like a very satisfying toybox, and you can zoom in and follow your people around, or walk around your city like a giant. I found the construction aspects the most satisfying as you get the sense of putting together a tower in virtual space. An appealing simulator which will appeal to those who are looking for a more relaxing, meditative VR experience. Great chill soundtrack too!

This game checks a lot of boxes for me. when I first got a vive I was going into google blocks and building tiny low-poly cities out of bricks and making ugly trees - this game is very sim-tower-ish and you have to balance your residents desires and make something that's not ugly. the team appears responsive thus far (review made within two weeks of launch) if you like building towers and organizing things, you might enjoy this game. very fun design/concept. love the art, they've got the underpinnings, but I'm thinking they need to work a bit on the informational interface with the player to inform them of a few things better. overall, definetly worth the buy, if you're hesitant, wait a month and come back to see if the dev's have kept the pace up. concept and technology is all there for a great game, so far very fun even with limited info. reading the help page (stickied to this discussion forum) is a must. experimenting and trying over is a given for the first few runs. soon you'll be watching your little guys wander around your parks and buildings with a smug contentment as you construct your gleaming testament to man's folly.

This is basically Simtower and Simcity rolled into one. The gameplay is addictive, and it does make logical sense. This game is decent, but it could have been great... had the developers not abandoned it. The game is riddled with bugs, mostly annoying and possible to navigate around, but then it does crash once in a while, taking me out of the magic show. If the developers have any sense at all, they would return to this game and fix all the bugs, put out a public apology and watch the community grow. They just need a little patience with it.

It's an ok game. Unique Simtower-like format for a city builder. Gameplay is very simple for a city builder and the graphics are low end, even for when it was released in 2017 when compared to games like Cities Skylines and other large city builders. Only a few small updates in the year following release with no new stuff added and long since abandoned by the devs. Various bugs remain unfixed and it could use some QOL updates, but that wont happen unless the devs return. Worth playing? Yes, if you want a simple relaxing city builder to take a break from playing far more in-depth city builders. But worth the $25 price tag? Hell no. I first bought the game when it was released and was glad to pay the $25 then, hoping to see improvement and see it become a great game. I forgot about the game, fast forward many years, sad to see that nothings changed. If I were to buy it today, I wouldn't be willing to pay more than $5 for it.

Loved it, been waiting for something like this in VR. The idea of the roomscale skyscraper makes so munch sense given your playspace. More complex and detailed than i expected. a couple of glitches but otherwise good. Great job!

Controls are just too painful to really make this an enjoyable game to play. Visuals are all right, concept is interesting, but ultimately just too rough and simplistic to be worth the asking price.

I absolutely love this game. There is 1 SINGLE bug that's extremely common where the thing you're about to place is no longer attached to your controller and you either have to painstakingly select it again by clicking on it or select it from the tree of menus. It's not that big of a deal, but it's annoying after a while. Besides that small bug it's one of the most addictive and entertaining building games in VR that I own. It's incredibly and I truly recommend it.

[h1] If you like Sim Tower, you'll like this game! [/h1] I took the gamble and decided to snag this game on launch. I enjoyed Sim Tower when I was younger but wondered what it looked like from the people's point of view. Now with Skytropolis, I can in VR! [b] Graphics/Performance [/b] The game has clean graphics, probably to reduce the amount of processing when there are a lot of objects in view. Even with my GTX1080, I still experienced some judders and slow framerate when a bunch of stuff was in view. I was running on the beautiful setting though which I'll adjust next session. The style is very minimalist but works well. The people are silhouettes but I wish they had some sort of smiley or sad face on them to gauge how the general population feels. I also wished they would interact with the recreational buildings like seeing tennis players on the tennis court. If you like to min max your floor layouts, you'll have a hard time squeezing your head between the chunks of buildings you placed when you need to revisit that floor. [b] Gameplay [/b] The balanceing of the people's needs are similar to other building simulation titles where you have to build homes when the housing need is high, offices when business demand is up, etc. The game also has challenges allong the way that spur you along with money rewards. If you do like to min max the layout, you'll have a fun time trying to see how much you can optimize the space in relation to the size of the buildings you can place. It's enjoyable in VR and the controls work very well for this type of game. Your left hand acts like an easil but with building types instead of paint. Your right selects from the types and places them in the world. [b] Final Thoughts [/b] For around $20, I think it's definitely a good value. I'm really excited to see something other than wave shooters or jump scare games in the VR store. 2 thumbs up!