Game:

Sky Is Arrows (2018)

Category:

Review

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NOTE: The "P" key pauses the game. I am not good at reading directions.

I'm playing Sky Is Arrows, a role-playing action strategy game by 2,000 Damage and Sometimes You. A mixture of roguelike, action role-playing game, and real-time strategy game, the goal is to explore randomly generated levels to find the enemy castle that must be defeated before moving on to the next map. In each map, there are enemy encounters, loot chests, and items to provide bonuses. Gold can be spent to recruit new troops or improve your castle (to defend against the occasional enemy attack), and experience points are used to upgrade the stats of the hero. The game is light on features (you can’t save or pause the game (though each match is short, 15 minutes at the most), the maximum resolution is 1080, and hotkeys cannot be changed), though there is a selection of heros with different spells and the maps are different every time. Real-time battles are chaotic, namely because it is difficult to control troops (partially because they move on their own, and partially due to the control scheme that can’t be altered) and using spells can be imprecise. You never feel like you are totally in control of the battles, which makes them lose some appeal. While Sky Is Arrows has a unique combination of mechanics, the features and battles are lacking.