Releasing early access this year

You will build and customize a high-tech airship. It will be your home, workshop, laboratory and more while flying above the surface of Earth. Control and steer it towards the ruins of our civilization and mysterious anomalies. Manage your airship hull and its integrity. Extract and gather resources to improve your airship and make it uniquely yours.

Your scientific know-how will allow you to build and operate different machines. Analyze scanned items and reverse engineer lost technology. Research new ways of obtaining food and resources, discover new tools, and increase the chance of your survival.

Explore and extract resources from the ruins that were built up high to escape the dust. Surrounded by drifting debris caused by a strange anomaly, harvest it into raw materials to help you survive. Explore and discover the remains of our civilization. Find out what happened and why Earth evolved to a place where we lost control of our previous position at the top. Discover secrets of our past.

After descending below the dust, you will discover a strange new world, the planet's surface that changed in our absence. Face evolved fauna and flora and hunt for viral pathogens to cure a mysterious illness threatening your family.

Forever Skies is an action-survival game taking place on Earth, which was devastated by a global ecological disaster. This event caused the surface of the planet to be covered in a colossal layer of toxic dust. You’re returning to our planet hundreds of years later - will you recognize our world?

So much yes to all of that.

Subnautica is one of my all time greatest gaming experiences, early on into it I was already wanting more of that sort of thing, so I'm rather chuffed to chuffed to see this game be announced. It looks to have a very similar vibe with the focus on exploration, gradual discovery of the story, and eventual mastery of the environment, so I'm very hopeful that this will try to match or exceed what Subnautica achieved.

I'm especially in love with the idea of flying aboot in the big sci-fi dirigible. Subnautica's big So I'm thoroughly hyped that the airship will be front and centre in this.

There's something great in survival type games about having your own personalised place of safety, a respite from the harshness outside where you'll spend most of your solitude. Even better if you can take that place with you. There's been a few games I've played recently where you end up building a strong connection with a vehicle that is your home and transport, a big truck in The Long Drive which is very silly but has some cool stuff, and my beloved sanbuq in the wonderful Sailwind. There's just something really cool about organising supplies, planning a route, and setting out on an epic voyage in a big tactile vehicle that you inhabit.

Our team absolutely love all things survival Sci-fi and so we’re heavily influenced by movies like The Martian, Annihilation and IO Last on Earth to name just a few. Seeing scientists as grounded protagonists, fighting against the hostile environment to survive and doing what they can to get the job done is what gets our creative minds flowing. We’re hoping to give players that same feeling of when Matt Damon, as a stranded astronaut on Mars, says “I'm left with only one option, I'm gonna have to science the sh*t out of this.”

It seems that the devs really get what makes the premise interesting and exciting, I definitely got a 'science the shit out it' kind of feeling playing Subnautica, starting off very vulnerable but eventually with some ingenuity and bravery you become a competent pioneer. I'll be curious to see how they deal with the story/lore elements too, I'm always up for some traipsing about picking up bits of incidental info to build up a picture of What The Fuck Happened.

It's going to have 4 player co-op apparently, which is pretty interesting as I'm not sure what benefit you might get with adding more players to this kind of experience. There hasn't been an indication of combat AFAIK, and building seems limited to the airship, so I wonder if there's going to be some other activities that really make sense with multiple players.

I'm just really happy that we're getting another three dimensional scanny-buildy-drivy-findy-science kind of game. I'd love it if 'Nautica-likes' became a common thing, it's nice to have more immersive first person games that aren't just about shooting things in the face.