Sky the Scraper (2025)

published 2025-11-25 | tags: #backlog #games

I have to admit I haven't gotten very far in this game, but I am calling it and wanted to record my thoughts.

The arcade mechanic of scraping windows is really fun and you get into a rythm pretty quick. It's challenging and rewarding and has a good difficulty curve.

The bit, as the description text hints, is that a big chunk of the game is spent between those arcadey games managing your life, texting people, etc.

As far as game design goes that is brilliant. I genuinely feel exhausted every time I'm between levels just managing my life and it's not even that bad! I don't have to get groceries, I just need to read what my manager sent me.

That said, I really just want to play the fun part (duh) and I wish there was a way to skip past or auto-advance the plot. Not because that life-management gameplay is bad but because it's just really time consuming in a game where you reset quite often... or I did because I kept failing missions.

Over all a really good indie game with some interesting mechanics in an interesting package.

I do wish the Steam Deck support was better. Menu interactions leave something to be desired.