Skyward Collapse Demo

Playing God is one of the most intriguing activities out there, especially since modern technology allows you to achieve a variety of interesting things. However, too much power can prove to be dangerous as well, which is why we should stick to video games. Here, actions only matter in regards to the final score, so everything goes and no one bats an eye when you burn an entire village to the ground.

Skyward Collapse is a god game in which things are not as straightforward as you would expect them to be. Instead of helping a civilization evolve and expand, you have to keep an eye on two of them, as well as prevent them from going to war against each other. Hence, the challenge is that much more difficult when you think about it, especially because you have no control over their units and production facilities.

The game itself is played like a turn-based strategy flick, which means that each faction gets its turn to make the desired moves. Obviously, you are the one who makes the decisions for both of them, so it’s fun to be press the “End Turn” button and still be in control. On the other hand, if you think it should be rather easy to keep two cities from attacking each other, then you must know that the game asks you to build war supplies and facilities, otherwise you won’t be able to proceed.

Besides building structures and managing the resources for the two factions, you can also expand the continent they live on, by adding all kinds of tiles. Hence, you can change the environment to your will and try to block paths using mountains, lakes and swamps to hinder soldier efficiency. When everything fails, you can also take drastic measures and basically use your divine power to smite the people down, although such actions are not accessible very often.

From a technical point of view, the game looks alright in the visual department, even if there are some glaring flaws that shouldn’t be there this day and age. As an example, while the terrain and the buildings look nice and full of detail, there are no animations, which is rather sad to see nowadays. However, you can ignore these problems if you just concentrate on the gameplay instead.

Although Skyward Collapse is supposedly targeted at regular gamers everywhere, it is quite obvious that the gameplay is a bit slow and complicated for casual players to get excited about. Hence, hardcore gamers might be the only ones to see the value in learning the complicated rules and dealing with the obsolete graphics.