- Publisher: Wadjet Eye Games
- Release Date: Apr 23, 2025
- Also On: Switch
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Apr 23, 2025I certainly didn’t dislike my time with Old Skies, but I didn’t love it, either. What a wonderful ending that almost made me forget and forgive the longest fifteen hours I’ve experienced in a game recently. The last chapter is absolute chef’s kiss stuff. Somehow, though, a story with a mysterious organization with limitless resources, a thoughtful ruleset, and time manipulation didn’t excite.
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Jul 3, 2025Whilst some of the fundamentals that make a Wadjet Eye Game so special are included here, and there is a level of enjoyment to be had, Old Skies fails to hit the mark in more ways than expected. Long-term fans will likely persevere to the end because there is indeed enough of a hook and there are plenty of little in-jokes/references included. Old Skies should have been the most open escapade yet from the team. However - convoluted gameplay, unsatisfactory puzzle mechanics, frustrating new inclusions, a plot with unnecessary elements, and a surprising amount of linearity all leave this feeling rather anticlimactic overall. Bring back the days of Blackwell.
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Edge MagazineMay 16, 2025There's an interesting personal story here, yet when it comes to the work itself, we can't help but feel we've gone a little too far back in time. [Issue#411, p.123]
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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]