Lost Skies

Item: Lost Skies
Rating: 59
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-09-28

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Summary

Enjoyable core experience, successful Worlds Adrift successor
Excellent grappling hook and creative ship building
Engaging movement, exploration, and immersive world
Unfinished, bug-ridden release with critical progress loss
Frustrating navigation, clunky ship controls, poor multiplayer
Wait for future updates, high potential

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Frustration20%Disappointment16%Satisfaction16%Excitement10%Hope8%

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64%

36%

1,533

59%

41%

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 77%
Unhelpful reviews: 20%
Protest reviews: 3%

59%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
41%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 4190
Negative points: 4510
Gameplay points: 892
Perf. points: 184
Rec. points: 1057
Misc points: 1065

Point	Description	Importance
Highly Enjoyable Core Experience Description Players overwhelmingly find the game fun, engaging, and unique, highlighting its strong potential and solid foundation. Many express genuine enjoyment, often despite acknowledging existing flaws or early access status. Importance 76%	Players overwhelmingly find the game fun, engaging, and unique, highlighting its strong potential and solid foundation. Many express genuine enjoyment, often despite acknowledging existing flaws or early access status.	76%
Successful Worlds Adrift Successor Description The game is widely celebrated as a faithful and improved spiritual successor to 'Worlds Adrift'. Veterans appreciate the strong sense of nostalgia, retained core mechanics, and enhanced features, often viewing it as what 'Worlds Adrift' should have been. Importance 41%	The game is widely celebrated as a faithful and improved spiritual successor to 'Worlds Adrift'. Veterans appreciate the strong sense of nostalgia, retained core mechanics, and enhanced features, often viewing it as what 'Worlds Adrift' should have been.	41%
Excellent Grappling Hook Mechanics Description The grappling hook system is consistently praised as a standout feature, offering exhilarating, fluid, and satisfying traversal. Players frequently compare it favorably to other games, including Spider-Man titles, for its freedom and versatility. Importance 38%	The grappling hook system is consistently praised as a standout feature, offering exhilarating, fluid, and satisfying traversal. Players frequently compare it favorably to other games, including Spider-Man titles, for its freedom and versatility.	38%
Robust and Creative Ship Building Description The shipbuilding system is a highly praised feature, offering a great balance of complexity and accessibility. Players enjoy the freedom to design, customize, and upgrade their unique airships, which serve as both base and transport. Importance 30%	The shipbuilding system is a highly praised feature, offering a great balance of complexity and accessibility. Players enjoy the freedom to design, customize, and upgrade their unique airships, which serve as both base and transport.	30%
Strong Potential and Developer Dedication Description Reviewers see immense potential for the game's future, praising its unique concept, immersive world, and stunning visuals. The developers' passion, responsiveness to feedback, and consistent updates instill confidence in the community. Importance 29%	Reviewers see immense potential for the game's future, praising its unique concept, immersive world, and stunning visuals. The developers' passion, responsiveness to feedback, and consistent updates instill confidence in the community.	29%
Engaging Movement and Exploration Description The combination of grappling, gliding, and climbing mechanics creates an incredibly fun and satisfying movement system. This freedom of traversal significantly enhances the sense of adventure and exploration across the floating islands. Importance 23%	The combination of grappling, gliding, and climbing mechanics creates an incredibly fun and satisfying movement system. This freedom of traversal significantly enhances the sense of adventure and exploration across the floating islands.	23%
Immersive World, Lore, and Aesthetics Description The game's world-building, lore, and overall atmosphere are highly immersive and captivating. Players appreciate the beautiful art style, good graphics, and fitting soundtrack, which contribute to a unique and engaging experience. Importance 21%	The game's world-building, lore, and overall atmosphere are highly immersive and captivating. Players appreciate the beautiful art style, good graphics, and fitting soundtrack, which contribute to a unique and engaging experience.	21%
Active Bug Fixing and Stability Improvements Description Developers are actively and quickly addressing bugs and stability issues through frequent patches and hotfixes. Many game-breaking problems reported at launch have been resolved, leading to a more stable and enjoyable experience. Importance 19%	Developers are actively and quickly addressing bugs and stability issues through frequent patches and hotfixes. Many game-breaking problems reported at launch have been resolved, leading to a more stable and enjoyable experience.	19%
Enjoyable Co-op Sky Pirate Fantasy Description The game is particularly fun when played with friends, fulfilling a 'sky pirate' fantasy with custom airships and cooperative exploration. The unique sky-sailing and adventure concept is a major draw for group play. Importance 8%	The game is particularly fun when played with friends, fulfilling a 'sky pirate' fantasy with custom airships and cooperative exploration. The unique sky-sailing and adventure concept is a major draw for group play.	8%
Unique Resource Gathering and Crafting Description The resource gathering mechanics, such as mining and woodcutting, are noted for being fresh, interesting, and less monotonous than in other survival games. The crafting system is also well-balanced, offering depth without being overwhelming. Importance 7%	The resource gathering mechanics, such as mining and woodcutting, are noted for being fresh, interesting, and less monotonous than in other survival games. The crafting system is also well-balanced, offering depth without being overwhelming.	7%
Improved and Engaging Combat Description Combat has seen significant improvements over its predecessor, offering decent gunfights and engaging PvE content. The addition of more varied enemies and refined mechanics makes on-foot combat surprisingly good. Importance 6%	Combat has seen significant improvements over its predecessor, offering decent gunfights and engaging PvE content. The addition of more varied enemies and refined mechanics makes on-foot combat surprisingly good.	6%
Creative and Varied Island Design Description The islands are well-designed, unique, and varied, often featuring creative puzzles and environmental storytelling. The inclusion of community-made islands is also a positive aspect, adding to the game's content. Importance 6%	The islands are well-designed, unique, and varied, often featuring creative puzzles and environmental storytelling. The inclusion of community-made islands is also a positive aspect, adding to the game's content.	6%

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