Skykeepers is an adventure developed by Sword Twin Studios, released 31 March 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Skykeepers is
Skykeepers is an adventure game developed by Sword Twin Studios and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
SkyKeepers offers stunning visuals and a unique journey through a fantasy world inspired by oceanic Austronesian culture. A tragic accident spirals Tangi into despair, turning him to stone. Unprotected, the village suffers onslaught after onslaught of unkept hostile spirits who now flood the islands. A year passes before Tangi awakes, emerging from his skin of stone to give witness to the devastation of his absence. Picking up his axe, he must conquer the demons of these lands to rebuild his village. To rebuild himself.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Skykeepers holds a critic score of 47 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 24 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Skykeepers launched on 31 March 2017, within three weeks of Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition and Zero Escape: The Nonary Games. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games.
Official trailer
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