Forward to the Sky

Forward to the Sky

Fair · RPG · 2015

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.4h
Value
$5.71/hr
Reviews
82% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
2.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$5.71
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$7.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
82%
2,232 reviews, as of Sep 22
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2015

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX9 (shader model 2.0) capabilities, 430 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Reveal the story of the sky tower! Forward to the Sky is a third person action adventure game in the sky tower ruin. You are going to collect all the crystal pieces to connect the story and everything will be revealed once Princess reaches the top level.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Engagement20% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$5.71/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length1.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds2 of 374 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

December 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $0.79. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 112 in the 12 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Eastward ($24.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Plebby Quest: The Crusades ($19.99, scores 46).

Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 374 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 779 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

52% start to 20% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

A small-scale 3D collectathon puzzle-platformer with hack-and-slash elements that leans heavily on a charming shōjo art style and PS2/GameCube-era nostalgia. The concept is simple and kid-friendly, but the execution feels unpolished: floaty controls, clumsy combat with shallow mechanics and poor hit detection, uninspired voice work, overly simplistic puzzles, and a fair share of bugs that sap its already limited...
Re_AndresNot recommendedafter 2.3hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Forward to the Sky scores 51/100 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/333250/forward-to-the-sky
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Reviews 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 22, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAnimu Game
PublisherAnimu Game
GenreRPG
Released2015
Achievements12