- 80/100
- Players9 ratings
- 80/100
- Critics1 review
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 64/100
- GameFAQsEasy
- 3.5/5
- Player reviews
- 82% positive2,878 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$13.78
Where to get it
2021 · Hungry Couch Games · Adventure · Indie
Black Skylands
Timed Xbox exclusive
Earth has been turned into thousands of flying islands. The survivors are at war for resources. You are an airship captain who wants to reach Black Skylands, a scavenger’s paradise. To do so you must destroy hordes of hostile monsters and find peace and prosperity for your people.
- Released
- 9 July 2021
- Platforms
- Nintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
- Genres
- AdventureIndieRole-playingShooterSimulation
- Developers
- Hungry Couch Games
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionScience fictionSurvivalSandboxOpen world
- Age ratings
- ESRB TGRAC 15+PEGI 16
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Time to beat
- 15hmain story21hwith extras23hcompletionist
About
Black Skylands is an action-adventure top-down shooter video game developed by Russian indie video game company Hungry Couch Games and published by tinyBuild. It entered early access for Windows on 9 July 2021 and was released 15 August 2023 for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
It is set in the fictional floating continent of Aspya, revolving around the adventure of female protagonist called Eva. As a daughter of the head of her clan, Eva defends the land of Aspya from a band of raiders and mysterious creatures called The Swarm appearing from the storm. Black Skylands allows players to customize their weapons and airship, build their base, reclaim lands and expand their territory, and explore dungeons, including randomly generated ones. It has an open world. Black Skylands has been described by reviewers as a mix between Hotline Miami, Sunless Skies, and Stardew Valley.
›Story
Many years ago, Earth turned into thousands of islands floating in the air. In the new world, peoples of Aspya used to live in peace… Until vicious raiders invaded their homelands.
You are Eva—a proud daughter of the Earners. The Kain's Falcons, cold-blooded bandits from the Desert Lands, destroyed the Earners’ Fathership and took your old man’s life. Driven by revenge, you have to rebuild your aerial home “from the deck up”, arm and prepare for battle.
However, the Kain’s Falcons are not the only threat you are about to face. Somewhere in the depths of the Black Skylands, the mysterious Swarm lurks…
Players say
Media
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Editions
- Black Skylands: Origins
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