Skyhill
Skyhill is a roguelike story about staying alive when there is no reason to. You are a resident of Skyhill hotel,who survived biological catastrophe. Goal - is to get out of your penthouse in search of other…
Skyhill is an adventure developed by Mandragora, released 6 October 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android. It currently starts at $0.99 at Steam.
What Skyhill is
Skyhill is an adventure game developed by Mandragora and released in 2015. It was published by Daedalic Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Skyhill is a roguelike story about staying alive when there is no reason to. You are a resident of Skyhill hotel,who survived biological catastrophe. Goal - is to get out of your penthouse in search of other people and salvation. But all elevators in the building are off and floors are flooded with hazards. You are not sure is there any other survivors, as far as you know everyone in the building died, or… changed beyond recognition. Those who provided room service and pushed buttons in elevators for you not so long ago… well now all they want is to rip off your flesh to get to your tasty insides… So much for customer service. You face the dilemma: on the one hand you have to get out from…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Skyhill holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.2 Ghz Dual Core CPU, 4 GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series, GeForce 205. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.99 at Steam, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Skyhill launched on 6 October 2015, within three weeks of Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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