Lonely Skies

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Lonely Skies is a 2.5D 3D rendered 2D puzzle platformer where you play a low poly blob and bounce around a "steampunk" themed platformer environment, with push/carry mechanics and a grappling hook so you can swing around the place. This is a student project and thus has appropriately been given away for free on Steam, which is of course the only way to do it. The visual presentation is decent, with the exception of the low poly assets. Low poly assets always come across as a copout/shortcut used when people want to excuse lack of ability/budget for "style". At least it's not as bad as the amateur developers favourite crutch, 2D retro pixel "art". It's understandable that these are students, but the poor visual aspect of the low poly art still makes this less than it could have been. The real problems are with the lack of polish around the gameplay. While all the elements "work", it's clunky and unsatisfying. It's possible to sling yourself into places that are really hard to extract yourself from. This really feels like it needs a few more iterations of gameplay testing and polish to fix up the control feel and handling. It's nice that this is free and the aspects of the…

Игра 'Lonely Skies' — это настоящее погружение в меланхоличную атмосферу одиночества и поиска себя. Управление самолетом интуитивно понятное, а графика, хоть и простая, отлично передает ощущение бескрайнего, пустынного неба. Каждый полет — это медитативное путешествие, где можно не только исследовать живописные, но и немного жутковатые пейзажи, но и задуматься о чем-то своем, личном. Музыкальное сопровождение создает идеальный фон для самоанализа, делая игру идеальным выбором для тех, кто хочет отвлечься от суеты и побыть наедине со своими мыслями. Это не экшен, где нужно спасать мир, а скорее возможность провести время в спокойствии и найти нечто важное в тишине.

Well...not sure if I like it or not. Way too laggy, to put it mildly. menu and other area was fast, no problem, but when playing game, well, it's almost frame by frame play, laggy, and unable to compensate. Hope developer make an update for better game play soon, until then, I'll just wait till update so I can play normally, and not wholeheartedly laggy.

There is a lot of potential for this! The art style is gorgeous and the soundtrack is impressive. Most of the issues or bugs come from the physics engine and/or lag. A settings menu would also be nice. I look forward to seeing what this game evolves into and future projects.

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