Rainbow Skies (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Rainbow Skies

From the makers of Rainbow Moon comes Rainbow Skies, a new fantasy role-playing game. Immerse yourself in a colorful and vibrant world, filled to the brim with friends and foes, murky dungeons, turn-based…

64 26 June 2018

What Rainbow Skies is

Rainbow Skies is an adventure game developed by SideQuest Studios and released in 2018. It was published by Eastasiasoft. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

It's a big day for Damion: Today is his final examination as a monster tamer, an important profession in his home town, which is constantly threatened by monster attacks. However, after a terrible hangover, Damion completely messes things up and not only fails the examination but also destroys the entire monster compound. When he tries to cover up his mishap with his examiner Layne, things turn from bad to worse and through a number of unforeseen circumstances, they find themselves between the fronts of two rival super powers...

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Rainbow Skies holds a critic score of 64 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Rainbow Skies launched on 26 June 2018, within three weeks of Vampyr, Among Us, Octopath Traveler and The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Vampyr, Among Us, Octopath Traveler, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit.

Official trailer