Skybound (2025)

Genuinely a great game! I played with mouse and keyboard and it was super fun and intuitive to grapple around. You do have to finish each level/world in one sitting, since if you leave and rejoin it will start again from the beginning of the level (and you can't skip the cutscenes unfortunately.. this especially sucks for speedrunning.) Each world is beautifully crafted, introducing different mechanics and harder challenges as you progress. I would encourage everyone who plays this to try the speed challenges, you do have to turn on the speedrun mode in the settings for them to count. It's so much fun to fling yourself over large chunks of the map, skipping the normal path and carving your own instead. Hopefully there will be an update to skip cutscenes in the future. A word of warning: if you care about achievements, don't click "Unlock All" in the settings, it will lock you out of getting the discovery achievement even if you go back and collect all discoveries later. (Don't ask me how I know...) Super excited to see any future content updates or dlc!

It seems to look a lot like Peak. Definitely for someone that knows how to use agility very well the swinging from post to post is a bit challenging but good thing is you don't seem to lose progress you just respawn where Ur last save point was on the island.

This game is SOOOO under rated I've been playing this game for like 30 mins and its rlly fun!

extremely underrated

This game made me cry because of a pumpkin then sent me into a legend of Zelda simulator. Beautiful highly recommend.

Skybound is a compact 3D platforming adventure that puts movement, exploration, and momentum at the center of the experience. Developed by Half Home Games and published by DADIU, it was created as a student project within a remarkably short six-week production period. That background helps explain both its limited size and some of its rough edges, but it also makes the amount of personality packed into the game more impressive. Rather than attempting to deliver an enormous adventure, it focuses on establishing an enjoyable traversal system and a colorful world that invites experimentation. The story follows Bell, a seventeen-year-old archaeologist whose unusual childhood shaped her fascination with ancient civilizations. Raised by Professor A. N. Curia after a bizarre delivery mix-up during her infancy, Bell grew up surrounded by archaeological research, expeditions, artifacts, and forgotten history. Her first independent assignment sends her to mysterious islands floating above the clouds, where she must recover an ancient artifact for a client associated with her mentor. What initially seems like a routine expedition soon raises questions about the artifact itself and whether th…