Sci-Fi Survival Game Forever Skies Is a PS5 Console Exclusive | Push Square

20.02.2024 - 00:41 / pushsquare.com / Sony

Sony has lined up another third-party PS5 console exclusive for 2024, and this time it comes from indie studio Far From Home. Forever Skies is a first-person, sci-fi survival game that's been in early access for nearly two years, but it'll fully launch later this year. When it does, it'll be a timed console exclusive on Sony's system.

The game takes place on a stranded and ruined future Earth, where you will have to build up your flying base to survive the planet's harsh conditions. Heavily inspired by the likes of Subnautica, Raft, and Green Hell, Forever Skies is all about gathering resources, gradually upgrading your base, and slowly exploring further and deeper to ensure your survival. You'll be able to play solo or in up to four-player co-op.

Far From Home — which has staff with credits on Dying Light, Outriders, and The Medium — has secretly been in partnership with Sony, which has helped to fund the project and offered development support. The game will release simultaneously on Steam and PS5, but it's not known how long it'll remain console exclusive.

There's some more info on the PS Blog if you're interested. What do you think of Forever Skies? Will you be checking this one out on PS5? Survive the comments section below.

Having grown up alongside PlayStation, Stephen has developed an eclectic taste in video games and a wide knowledge of the medium, from small indie gems to the biggest AAA blockbusters. Ever hopeful that the Burnout series makes a miraculous return.

I was interested in this after the EDGE write-up, so pretty cool news actually.

looks cool i just hate survival games

Been keeping an eye on this one — I think it could be really good.

Ok IM LISTENING! Between this and Lightyear Frontier over on PC/XBX, Us Cozy Gamer Sci Fi nerds are being fed

I want to enjoy survival games so SO badly, but they just result in such boredom and tedium for me.

I've put more hours into No Man's Sky than any other, and even in that I hit a HARD wall when I realized I was just wandering, collecting things, to make things, to collect new things or collect existing things slightly faster. It was all just math on top of math. Like a clicker game. Slowly allowing me to «click» faster or «click» on new stuff.

All I could think about toward the end of my play time with NMS was how incredible the game would be if it included actually decent combat. Or stealth. Or morality. Or real enemies. Like if it was Farcry in space, basically. Maybe mixed with a little of Mass Effect's morality system.

All I wanted was to wander onto a planet and find a pirate base. But maybe not fight them. Maybe I'd side with them and become a plundering space pirate that grew to become the scourge of multiple solar systems. Or maybe