Black Skylands is an action-adventure game from the Russian indie company Hungry Couch Games. In cooperation with tinyBuild, a steampunk world was created that combines many gameplay elements.
What is it about? As the brave and capable Captain Eva, you command your own airship and fight to protect your people from the invading hawks. Explore the endless expanses of the heavenly world and find the necessary raw materials to forge powerful weapons.
Where can you play it? Black Skylands has been available for PC, Switch, PS5 and Xbox since August 15, 2023.
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What shows the Black-Skylands–trailers? The trailer gives a great insight into the top-down shooter elements that Black Skylands has to offer you. You steer your airship past flying rocks, over large islands and past your opponents. In combat, you use the airship’s guns.
Through the larger cities of the flying islands you control your character on foot and fight with guns against the enemies that await you on land. Buy new weapons in the shop and equip yourself for the next fight.
Merging of different gameplay elements makes this action-adventure special
According to Steam, Black Skylands is the first Steampunk SpSteampunk game that combines sandbox and RPG elements in an open world.
In the trailer you get a brief insight into the interaction with various NPCs, which, however, do not yet show how strong the role-playing component will be.
Although the trailer focuses on the game’s combat mechanics, it presents a nice mix of pixel art gameplay and lovingly animated cartoon-style cutscenes.
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