"Black Skylands is a hybrid-genre adventure that combines elements of sandbox, RPG, top-down shooter and survival. Set in a world of islands floating in the skies, it lets you take on a role of a young girl on a mission to save her homeland from legions of terrifying creatures known as The Swarm."
Review - If Skies of Arcadia or Wind Waker were your jam, then Black Skylands should be the next game you explore.
Black Skylands from tinyBuild is on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and PC, now as a full release.
Never heard of this game, but it looks fun.
Oddly enough, it makes me wish for a new Hotline Miami and Dark Cloud game.
It’s really dangerous to like any game a lot in early access, as a game will change a great deal before it gets to that fabled 1.0. Things will shift, parts of the game someone thought would be a big part turn out to be less consequential, or that thing that felt really inconsequential ends up becoming a big part of how players engage with the game. But Black Skylands is good, very good, and has the potential to be properly huge as it builds. It’s a gorgeous balancing act, managing a sense of adventure with a dark storyline involving war, a high-flying airship combat-and-exploration game with a top-down action-adventure, and the sheer amount of freedom and stuff to do is mindblowing.
