- Publisher: Wadjet Eye Games
- Release Date: Apr 23, 2025
- Also On: Switch
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May 30, 2025Emotionally strong story told through a shallow game neglecting its own puzzle and world-building logic twice too often.
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Sep 13, 2025A marvelous adventure graphic game in one of the best years for the genre. [Recommended]
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Apr 23, 2025While Old Skies is a more “traditional” adventure game than Unavowed, it does the game a disservice to leave it at that. This is a hugely ambitious game, perhaps even seven different games combined into one, repeatedly reinventing its approach to its central conceit throughout. And it’s one that’s stuck with me, one I keep thinking about days after I finished playing. [Impressions]
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Apr 23, 2025What I come back to, as I think back over Old Skies, is that balance: In the way it tells a robust and mechanically fascinating story of time travel that nevertheless grounds every single moment in the human element. “What would it be like to live in a world where everything changes in an instant?” it asks—before reminding you that that’s exactly what you’re doing right now. If you have any affection for adventure games or time travel stories, you owe it to yourself to play it: It’s my favorite game I’ve played this year so far.
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Jul 9, 2025Old Skies isn’t the flashiest game – but it doesn’t need to be. Rather than a grandiose, sci-fi thriller that the “time travel” trope tends to accompany, it grounds itself in a more sobering proposition. Ordinary people with ordinary desires, making extraordinary decisions. You aren’t here to save the world, but instead, to witness small slices of humanity. Sometimes, you don’t need an extravagant exit; you just need a shoulder to lean on. [Highly Recommended]