Hello everybody! The Forever Skies workforce simply surprise-released a PlayStation 5 unique demo, and it’s accessible today! The demo is specifically designed for our PlayStation followers so we’ve made positive it’s acquired loads to supply.
Forever Skies is a first-person, sci-fi survival sport the place you construct, fly, and customise your individual cellular airship base whereas exploring a ruined Earth.
So let’s set the scene first. When a perpetual poisonous mud cloud enveloped the floor of the Earth following an ecological catastrophe, humanity made a last-ditch stand by relocating to makeshift towers that rose above the mud layer, counting on airships to maneuver round. When all hope was misplaced, the final remnants of humanity fled into orbit. You play as a scientist from this final pocket of civilization, despatched again to Earth on a vital mission to discover a treatment for an sickness spreading all through the area station that homes the final of humanity.
Our demo is a specifically designed vertical slice of the sport that gives a streamlined introduction to a few of our greatest options. It ought to take you round 1.5 – 2.5 hours to complete.
So what are you able to count on? First you’ll crash-land again on Earth and must hit the bottom operating. The small print of what went unsuitable with the expedition earlier than yours are scarce, so that you higher begin piecing collectively what particulars you possibly can.
Scavenge your environment for provides, use know-how to unlock instruments that will help you accumulate meals and water to outlive, and most significantly, get your airship flight able to take off and discover the world. Comply with the path of story goals as you discover towers that served as radio hubs, small makeshift cities, and wind farms from humanity’s previous efforts to rebuild. Be taught what it takes to outlive right here, extracting sources from the air or fishing for mud moths to eat. Construct and customise your airship to make it really feel like your individual and expertise being a scientist as you employ know-how and smarts to finest the hostile world you’ve returned to.
This tradition snippet of our story and primary sport development takes round an hour in the event you observe the goals. After that, you possibly can proceed to discover the world extra freely, with a couple of open-world goals to information your sightseeing.
We’ve additionally added some nice PlayStation 5 options to the demo. Because of The DualSense controller’s adaptive triggers, instruments just like the deck extractor, construct software, and scanner every really feel distinctive if you use them. We’ve additionally built-in haptic suggestions for these instruments and for different moments like if you’re piloting your airship for instance. We’ve redirected some VO prompts to play by the controller speaker and we made positive the demo helps each Efficiency and Excessive Constancy modes so you possibly can play to match your preferences.
Most notably although we’ve added a particular in-game reward for these actually devoted scientists who full all the demo, by ending all of the goals, you’ll earn a free PlayStation-exclusive airship. You’ll be capable of paint your airship in PlayStation-inspired hues of blue, and this pores and skin will carry over into the total sport when it launches—simply make sure to maintain your demo save intact in your console.
That stated although, we couldn’t pack every thing our sport has to supply into the demo. Within the full sport, you’ll additionally get to discover under the poisonous mud, the place a wholly new and mutant ecosystem has advanced. You’ll have entry to much more instruments and know-how to outlive and thrive, tackle the specter of superior wildlife that advanced in our absence, create much more superior airships, and uncover many extra distinctive areas. However most significantly, you’ll be capable of play the total sport in both a single-player or on-line co-op with as much as three pals.
We all know we’ve acquired a very huge and devoted fanbase of PlayStation gamers ready for the total sport, so we hope this particular demo offers you a terrific first style of what’s to come back. We put loads of work into it and may’t wait to listen to your suggestions.
So, head over to PlayStation Retailer, obtain the demo, and begin exploring. And in the event you actually loved the demo, please give us a wishlist so that you’ll be notified when the total sport releases in early 2025.
Thanks a lot for studying, and see you within the skies!