Sky: Children of the Light

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  • Summary: Welcome to the enchanting world of Sky, a beautifully-animated kingdom waiting to be explored by you and your loved ones. Hand in hand, take flight across seven realms, solve mysteries, help others, make friends, and create enriching memories together.

    Spread Light through the desolate    Welcome to the enchanting world of Sky, a beautifully-animated kingdom waiting to be explored by you and your loved ones. Hand in hand, take flight across seven realms, solve mysteries, help others, make friends, and create enriching memories together.

    Spread Light through the desolate kingdom and return the fallen Stars to their constellations.    … Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Pocket Tactics
    Sep 1, 2020
    100
    With a touch of endless runner, a dash of MMO, and just a sprinkling of puzzles, Sky: Children of the Light soars to lofty heights.
  2. SpazioGames
    Apr 15, 2020
    92
    Sky: Children of the Light is the latest effort from Thatgamecompany, who succeeded in creating a game that feels both like a spiritual successor to Journey and like something completely new.
  3. Gamer.nl
    Jul 25, 2019
    85
    Thatgamecompany has created a great game with Sky, having a strong emphasis on discovery and friendship. The game regularly feels like an ode to Journey. The in-app purchases hardly affect this magic, but the bugs and sloppy controls sometimes do.
  4. Vandal
    Jul 29, 2019
    80
    Sky feels like an evolution of Journey: it shares some similarities, but also adds its own personality. They also share that magic, that something unique that you can’t find anywhere else.
  5. Gameblog.fr
    Oct 8, 2019
    80
    Sky : Children of the Light's composition spreads elegantly both in style, sublime and poetic, as well as in content, through traditional principles, yet harmoniously breathed into it while deeply meaningful to carry such an elevated purpose. Some touchy turbulence overshadow this ideal picture, when ThatGameCompany ventures across down to earth themes, or tends to lose its lantern among the mist created by this ever-evolving universe. Its humble existential, altruistic message stays nonetheless limpid, the economic model expressing rare generosity, like an open hand.
  6. Everyeye.it
    Aug 14, 2019
    80
    Among the constellations of the mobile galaxy, Sky: Children of the Light is one of the brightest stars.
  7. 148Apps
    Jul 18, 2019
    60
    I can’t even begin to imagine how Sky was made. It’s ultra-smooth visuals and seamless multiplayer feel like they can’t work on a mobile device, yet they do. This is indeed an achievement, and I cannot deny that. Once I start playing it though, it feels like I’m smearing a painting. Everything is so beautifully composed, and then I come along to fly into a wall or get hung up on a ledge. This happens so frequently that I don’t really like spending time in Sky, which is a real shame.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 30
  3. Negative: 6 out of 30
  1. deddoggo9382
    Jun 29, 2021
    10
    I simply love this game, its game-play, its visuals, and the fact they´ve made this game for smartphones and it looks this good... just 10/10I simply love this game, its game-play, its visuals, and the fact they´ve made this game for smartphones and it looks this good... just 10/10 best mobile game i have ever played.… Expand
  2. silencer27
    Jun 12, 2022
    10
    The best game on mobile devices no matter what genre you play. Graphics masterpiece, developers feedback, sweetest community. This gameThe best game on mobile devices no matter what genre you play. Graphics masterpiece, developers feedback, sweetest community. This game definitely should be on PS or Xbox.… Expand
  4. KayLeng
    Mar 7, 2021
    10
    A unique social sandbox adventure disguised as a game. The best proof that mobile games can be art too. Astonishingly.
  5. maffak
    Aug 7, 2019
    9
    The game has the best graphics i have ever played on my phone. But story is little bit complicated. Actually the game hasn't got any negativeThe game has the best graphics i have ever played on my phone. But story is little bit complicated. Actually the game hasn't got any negative thing. Just play it… Expand
  6. ninhaterv
    Aug 10, 2023
    8
    It's a good game to make friends, you just have to be careful as in all games there are always elitist or hypocritical communities so I'm notIt's a good game to make friends, you just have to be careful as in all games there are always elitist or hypocritical communities so I'm not warning you!… Expand
  7. edgepixel
    Dec 30, 2021
    7
    Oh boy, how does one even review a game like Sky, mixing brilliance with disappointment?

    It starts out amazing. The visuals and the audio    Oh boy, how does one even review a game like Sky, mixing brilliance with disappointment?

    It starts out amazing. The visuals and the audio is top notch. With the eerie otherworldly voice of Aurora softly murmuring in the background as you start the game, you feel like you're engaging in the grandest adventure ever. And you will, don't get me wrong. Your first play through all the maps, soaring through the clouds, collecting stars, slowly improving your flight powers, dodging danger in dark lands, finding secrets and cool places, making your first friends, will become dearly cherished memories. And the final map--my oh my--I have never lived something so intense and heart-wrenching. And what follows after is the cherry on top. To say it's pure catharsis is an understatement.

    If it would end there, it would be a perfect game. But no, this is sort of an MMO. You get to start over, playing the maps again. Making new friends, deepening older friendships, collecting stuff, buying cosmetics, envying people with cooler cosmetics than yours, engaging with the new content that the developers keep putting out. And this stage will keep you going for a while.

    But there's a moment where you start to feel the grind. If you want it all, you need to grind the maps every day for collectables. If you truly want it all, you will have to cough up some real-world cash, and the packs or seasons or whatever are quite expensive for what they offer. So the fun will start to feel like a day job; worse even, as the day job still pays real money for your meaningless grind.

    So you'll eventually move on, but Sky will still beckon you once in a while, with the bright memories it has forever etched into your heart.

    PS: Oh yeah, I forgot the enduring bugs that frustrate you and mar the experience. One point subtracted. It feels strange to rate 7 a game that made such a significant impact on me, but when you put it all together, it is what it is.    … Expand
  8. Ender772
    Jul 23, 2019
    0
    Give us a console release...its not fun on mobile..but looks like a great Re-Boot of Journey...take my money? what? you wont take? why

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