Black Skylands
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.3h
- Value
- $1.50/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GT 750M, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in March 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 51 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Keplerth ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Voidtrain ($29.99, scores 32).
6 of the 783 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 238 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 13.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
49% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
32 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 17:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
this is the first game i have played until 100% completion and i can say this is a pretty Solid Game ! The character is so likeable, especially our main character eva wick. the enemy cone of vision is wide so it felt pretty satisfying to stealth or far shot an enemy. I love the art too. especiallly in game environtment really captured floating islands well. So many details like monster under the sky, clouds, various...
Game was fun - even addicting - for the islands exploration, then less fun for me personally in the end game. Here are my gripes - do note that they're fairly minor, and only touch on the optional content: The kraken didn't give any unique rewards at all, not even an achievement. The raids felt too long and slow, and the only reason to do them was to complete special challenges to get special materials to trade for...
TL;DR: A fun experience in the first few hours that fails to live up to its promise and falls flat on its face in the ending. This is yet another game where I wish I could leave a mixed/meh review. This game has a strong start, teasing multiple mechanics and a strong story, only for the story to become more and more sparse and terse as the game goes on and for all the mechanics to boil down to "shot massive waves of...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Black Skylands scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1143810/black-skylandsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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