Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire

Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire

Steam Deck Verified

Octeto Studios · Turn-Based Strategy · Oct 10, 2024

It depends on what you're after.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $8.24.

70%
Mixed
69 player reviews
Low confidence · few reviews
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 30 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 12 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Controls: 6 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Bugs: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Interface: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 69 player reviews · updated 5 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 48 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
38% of themes are praise37% are divided25% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
You run through the 3D world in search of quests, crew members or improvements for your ships.
30 of 48 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
If you like JRPGs, the combat, graphics (in typical Japanese Studio Ghibli style) and story will definitely appeal to you.
12 of 48 sampled reviews raised it
Controls
Players who bring up Controls mostly praise it.
-There is a control scheme selector but it does not stay on the controller I select which feels counter productive as using a controller other than Xbox causes no button prompts of any kind to appear not even the Xbox ones.
6 of 48 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love3 themes
Story and characters30 reviews
Graphics12 reviews
Controls6 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Combat18 reviews
56%
Gameplay10 reviews
60%
Audio6 reviews
50%
Players complain% still recommend
Bugs8 reviews
25%
Interface6 reviews
33%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $8.24 (−67%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

5 points recordedtoday · $8.24

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
70%
Mixed
Playing right now
Achievements
39
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.