PC Critic Reviews

It brings real innovation to a genre that’s seen little significant deviation from 1989’s Populous.

A game of grand ideas, then, if not grand strategy. There is a core here that deserves further exploration. [Aug 2013, p.83]

The core idea of a balancing a strategy game with limited player control is intriguing, but I found the execution of that idea, and the representations it used, unsatisfying. Arcen has made an ongoing and admirable effort to keep tweaking the game (although some patches have rolled out insufficiently tested), but I'm just not sure that anything they can do will address the essential dullness of its opening and closing phases.

You cannot deny this game it's complex and innovative. It's also ill-structured, twisted and hopelessly boring.

Skyward Collapse is a game with simple mechanics, good interface and is visually pleasing, it's just not a lot of fun to play.