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- Daedalic Entertainment
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- Daedalic Entertainment
- Daedalic Entertainment
Skyhill
Released On: Oct 6, 2015
63
5.7
Where to Buy
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
63
20% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
64% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
12% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
63
20% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
64% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
12% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Skyhill's set-up is a harrowing reality, while the challenge it offers players is both terrifically fun and nightmarishly difficult. It is a true test of your gaming endurance.
In Skyhill, you'll feel like The Last Man on Earth, in the role of Vincent Price. You'll have to fight for your life, in this simple and clever roguelike. A fine example of this genre, but the not the best out there.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 44 User Ratings
5.7
32% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
36% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
32% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 44 User Ratings
5.7
32% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
36% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
32% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
If you ever wished Elevator Action were a horrifying Roguelike with crafting, this is the game for you. I never in my life would have thought of that particular combination myself, but it is amazing how well all the elements come together to create an enjoyable game. Skyhill is a great combination of simple gameplay with interesting underlying systems keeping you trying new combinations of crafting and exploration strategies to see what will finally work and get you to the bottom of the ****. I probably only played for about 20 hours before deciding I had probably seen most of what the game had to offer, but I was always excited to play again every time I launched the game.
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Skyhill is a decent way to kill a few hours.
So.. Is the game a massive flop?….No. It just needs tweaking slightly in the right areas and given a patch or two to unlock it’s true potential.
Flawed in a lot of ways and with some ideas that don't seem fully fleshed out, but a gorgeous and idly entertaining roguelike romp nonetheless.
It’s what we define as a guilty pleasure but a rather pernicious one. It is extremely simplistic with a rudimentary crafting and looting system, which on the same time is complex enough to hook you in for some hours without even noticing.
It’s clever enough, I suppose. But is it worth 100 floors of bare-bones rogue-like? Hardly.
It's short 2d rogue like, turn based RPG, with emphasis on resource management.
You go through rooms and floors find scraps, food and monsters, upgrade your VIP hotel room and customize your equipment (basically only weapons). And try to stay alive, and don't die of hunger.
Without basic know how the game is hard, once you understand mechanics it's not that challenging. I managed to finish it on normal on fifth try. The game is extremely short, around 5-6 hours of gameplay combined. I finished it once and uninstalled, it has minimum replay-ability value.
Graphics, gameplay and atmosphere are adequate for small indie flick, and it was fun while it lasted.
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Skyhill is certainly an interesting game. It has a repetitive structure you would reasonably associate with survival roguelikes, and yet its design is full of unexpected highs and baffling lows, which altogether produce an average game that could've been much more.
Upon launch, Skyhill immediately greets you with an ugly polygonal 3D city panorama in the menu, which (thankfully) has nothing to do with any of the in-game graphics, which are in a pleasant cartoonish 2D style, and are pretty fluidly animated. The game then begins with a rather poorly drawn comic strip cutscene outlining the biohazard - and surprises you with the voice acting. It's not great, but it's present, and not only in the voiceover, but also in the audiologs you can occasionally find, which makes the game feel a lot more expensive than it really is.
The writing of these audiologs is quite disturbing and immersive, and same goes for the various kinds of notes (My favorite is probably "From the window, I see birds outside. If only I could be free as a bird! Free to fly, and free to eat! Yes, EAT!", though notes written from mutants' perspective are also cool.) Protagonists non-voiced thoughts (i.e. "I feel like this **** will never end!") are also fitting. The 3 default endings are all poor, though; patched-in fourth one based on a fan's idea at least has more drama and more gameplay to it. Unfortunately, the immersion you get from the graphics, the story notes and the sound design (the few musical themes are very well-fitting, and many monsters have really disturbing heavy breathing sounds) is often undone by the gameplay and its contradictions.
First, the good. The game is turn-based, with any movement from room to room taking away a hunger point (and/or a health point if you're starving or poisoned), which gives you plenty of time to think. Stuff is randomly placed only once, at the start of the game. This means that the enemies do not respawn, and their dead bodies stay where they were, giving you the satisfying feeling of truly clearing that damned ****. The crafting system is surprisingly large and can be really pleasant to operate. It's split into 5 categories: Weapons, Food, Health, Other, and Suite upgrades. Health and Other ones can all be done on the spot, while Weapons and Food crafting generally requires using workstation/kitchen back in Suite, and upgrading them via Suite upgrades to unlock better recipes. Once you do that once, you'll get so many weapons schemes and cooking recipes you'll feel like a trainee cook or weaponsmith. As for combat, it's simplistic, but serviceable, mainly due to the sounds and animations. It would've been great if the player had actual skills to use alongside the (only occasionally helpful) ability to target body parts, but at least the enemies sometimes do different attacks, one can run away to be encountered, wounded, later, another spits poison, etc.
The bad: Upgrading Suite any more after that is pointless, as you'll usually not get enough resources to craft Tier 3/4 weapons or food anyway. The resource placement is simply too random and not balanced well enough, given that there's no item regeneration to correct its mistakes. Crafting for each category always has a certain base resource that crops up in most high-level recipes (Cloth for "Other", Wood Planks and Scrap Metal for Weapons, Water for Food and Alcohol for Health), a resource that (with possible exception of Scrap Metal), simply doesn't crop up anywhere near often as required for them. Either the item spawn should've been weighted more towards these resources, or the crafting recipes should've been better at letting you use the kind of miscellaneous messes you'll generally end up with.
Either way, the game really should've had the ability to break unwanted item down. Believe, there's nothing more frustrating then finding many complete weapons in the lower-middle floors, long after you've crafted a superior Tier 2 one and have literally no use for them. You can't break down Saws to get their Scrap Metal, and neither can you get a Blade from Kitchen Knife. Actual recipes can be outright nonsensical too - crafting Gears requires combining Scrap Metal and Insulated Wires, with normal Wire somehow not good enough.
Then again, nothing harms immersion as much as the nature of crafting resources themselves. You're supposedly in a luxurious hotel, yet all that Scrap Metal and base foods would feel more at home in a multi-storey storage depot, or at least, in an explosion-dilapidated tower block. It's even more notable given that there's no paper money to be found, only occasional coins, which are roubles (even though character and hotel both appear American.) These are needed for vending machines, which can't just be smashed because...yeah.
So, on the whole, the game is rather average. It can be fun, but that depends on the kindness of RNG more often than on anything else.
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First hour of walk-through this game was intriguing for me. I tried to collect all notes, manage my resources and reach bottom floor. I liked simple design and artwork but game-play disappointed me because of big infliction of randomness.
Really: no matter how good equipment you had you still have a big chance to die from one hit. And sometimes you even can't evade it.
Could recommend it only as experiment for rogue-like fans but buy it only with a big discount,
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Примитив с абсурдными пошаговыми боями.
2/10
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A mediocre approach makes this roguelike unbearable - it's neither fun, nor scary. There's no exploration. The difficulty curve is simply boring and based on chance unlike better representatives of the genre, like Spelunky, where you can NEVER blame the game for being unfair. Highly unrecommended.
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Summary Skyhill is a roguelike story about staying alive when there is no reason to. You are a resident of Skyhill hotel,who survived biological catastrophe. Goal - is to get out of your penthouse in search of other people and salvation. But all elevators in the building are off and floors are flooded with hazards. You are not sure is there any ...
Platforms:
- PC
- iOS (iPhone/iPad)
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Oct 6, 2015
Developer:
- Mandragora
Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment
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