SKYHILL

I suppose it may be worth it at a steep discount, but while it looks pretty good, the game has lots of non-obvious flaws. Lets be generous and assume that losing the game because you couldn't find any medicine or couldn't find any weapons in the first few floors is intentional. Crafting is very unbalanced. You end up with 5 copies of a particular weapon (which CANNOT be salvaged for parts). Basic ingredients (wood/metal) should be easier to find because you need a lot of them. Every couple of floors you need to repair the elevator. That requires a random part, which is usually something valuable (e.g., wire). If you don't have the part, you can try to fix the elevator anyway with some risk of losing a random part. But if you DO have the part, that's the cost of repairing the stupid elevator. So the game punishes you having crafted or found a useful item. Best crafted weapons require stats which I don't think are achievable. Or if they are, you'd be about 98% through the game by the time you have the level to get these stats. You get phone messages from a couple of NPCs that say "I am waiting for you at floor XX". That'd be a great little event, but when you get to this floor, you get a message "Sorry, I couldn't wait for you/sorry, I missed you". So, basically, it is a giant waste of time that serves no purpose whatsoever. The default ending is pretty bad. I guess you can lookup a password to get a better ending, but I didn't care to do that.

Not bad. A good way to kill time. It would like it much more on my phone. The story is kinda dunb but the gameplay keeps you moving along. PRO TIP after you die the first time switch the difficulty to easy. It may seem cheap, but the random roguelike design can cause you to spawn in a tower without the resources to keep yourself alive. One you have made one pass through it, then crank up the difficulty. Of course, you may not feel the need for multiple passes. Don't pay more than like five bucks for this though. There just isn't that much depth.

The game looked really cool. So much potential. I read all the reviews warning me that it did not measure up to its own presentation, but I bought it anyway (on sale, so only a buck or two). Come to find out that your success is 110% RNG. There's literally no reasonable choice you can make to increase your survivability. Just hope you find medkits and food in every single cabinet...which you won't. It's a shame because a bit of balance tweaking and favoring of skill, choices, resource management, etc. could salvage this game, but as the other reviews are from years ago, I assume these changes will not come. I don't regret spending a dollar on it, but I wouldn't recommend it for a higher price than that.

After trying to beat Skyhill for a few attempts I finally managed to pull it off with a great run. However, the ending wasn't my cup of tea. For that, I give it 3-stars.

Premise and art are amazing. The game itself is a complete chore, don't buy it