Forever Skies arrives on PS5 with the promise of taking the familiar survival-crafting formula, hoisting it several hundred metres into the air, and hoping nobody notices you’re technically living in a flying shed. It’s a world of toxic fog, scavenged scrap, and scientific heroics, all strapped to the hull of your trusty airship.
Gaming Heaven
The core premise is wonderfully refreshing. Instead of building a base nailed to the ground, you construct a mobile laboratory that sails across the ruined skyline. It creates a sense of companionship with your airship that’s oddly touching – you’ll genuinely flinch the first time you clip a radio tower and scrape the paintwork.
Exploration has an excellent rhythm to it: spot a point of interest, swoop down, loot the place, then speed off before something unpleasant realises you’re snack-sized. The resource loop is compelling, and progress feels tangible as your craft evolves from rusty balloon-with-hope to a floating high-tech habitat.
The world itself is striking. The skies are soaked in warm light, derelict towers jut through the fog like forgotten monoliths, and the atmosphere constantly feels mysterious, melancholy, and quietly beautiful.
Gaming Hell
Combat, however, feels like it wandered in from a much earlier development build, armed solely with a bad attitude and a crossbow that reloads slower than the average British queue. Enemies spot you far too easily, hit far too hard, and generally behave like they’ve been drinking radioactive espresso.
Crafting can be cumbersome, with needlessly fussy requirements and a sense that someone, somewhere, really loves tiny resource stack limits. Performance hiccups and repetitive landing zones don’t help – the world looks vast, but the variety doesn’t always live up to the promise.
Final Judgement
Forever Skies is an ambitious survival game with a wonderfully unique airborne identity. Its exploration, atmosphere, and airship-building shine, even if the combat and crafting occasionally bring you back down to earth with a graceless thud. Despite its flaws, it offers an engaging, imaginative adventure well worth trying – just don’t expect a perfectly polished flight.
