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Black Skylands cover art

Black Skylands

Hungry Couch Games · tinyBuild · 2023-08-15

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 09, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 15, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Aug 15, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 15, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Aug 15, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Jul 31, 2021 (Xbox One)

Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.

18
playing now
84%
positive of 4.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
21h
to beat · rushed 15h · completionist 23h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

18 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Black Skylands is an action-adventure top-down shooter video game developed by Russian indie video game company Hungry Couch Games and published by tinyBuild. It entered early access for Windows on 9 July 2021 and was released 15 August 2023 for Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 18 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 195 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~24/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 90k–202k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,496 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.49-78%
GOG$4.99-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at Fanatical (2026-07-23) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 93 of 132 observed days · $2.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
24924920212026Week of 2021-07-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4402026-08-07 00:00 — 13 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 16 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 26 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 17 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 31 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 25 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 18 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 36 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 28 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 11 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 34 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 20 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 10 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 23 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 22 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 18 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 28 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 28 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 8 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 15 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 7 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 13 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 26 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 21 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 13 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 12 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 18 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$23.63$2.992021-06-182026-08-302021-06-18 — best price $17.192021-09-16 — best price $23.632021-11-21 — best price $19.992021-12-26 — best price $13.992022-03-12 — best price $16.492022-05-06 — best price $13.992022-07-04 — best price $15.172022-08-10 — best price $10.202022-10-18 — best price $13.992022-12-30 — best price $19.992023-02-11 — best price $19.992023-04-13 — best price $11.992023-05-16 — best price $16.342023-07-03 — best price $11.892023-08-15 — best price $17.992023-09-27 — best price $15.892023-11-11 — best price $19.992023-12-21 — best price $9.992024-02-12 — best price $16.392024-03-20 — best price $9.992024-05-03 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $6.702024-08-10 — best price $19.992024-09-23 — best price $19.992024-11-03 — best price $16.962024-12-14 — best price $19.992025-01-25 — best price $7.802025-03-06 — best price $4.992025-04-23 — best price $4.992025-06-17 — best price $5.982025-08-12 — best price $5.982025-09-29 — best price $4.992025-11-10 — best price $19.992026-01-08 — best price $4.992026-02-24 — best price $14.692026-04-27 — best price $14.692026-06-19 — best price $4.992026-08-29 — best price $4.992026-08-30 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1402026-05-27 — 9 pageviews2026-05-30 — 11 pageviews2026-06-02 — 13 pageviews2026-06-05 — 5 pageviews2026-06-08 — 9 pageviews2026-06-11 — 9 pageviews2026-06-14 — 4 pageviews2026-06-17 — 5 pageviews2026-06-20 — 5 pageviews2026-06-23 — 7 pageviews2026-06-26 — 9 pageviews2026-06-29 — 5 pageviews2026-07-02 — 11 pageviews2026-07-05 — 4 pageviews2026-07-08 — 8 pageviews2026-07-11 — 2 pageviews2026-07-14 — 4 pageviews2026-07-17 — 2 pageviews2026-07-20 — 7 pageviews2026-07-23 — 5 pageviews2026-07-26 — 8 pageviews2026-07-29 — 0 pageviews2026-08-01 — 5 pageviews2026-08-04 — 1 pageviews2026-08-07 — 7 pageviews2026-08-10 — 8 pageviews2026-08-13 — 1 pageviews2026-08-16 — 7 pageviews2026-08-19 — 4 pageviews2026-08-22 — 3 pageviews2026-08-24 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
48.6%
earned "The Adventure Begins"
20.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, Russian, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,94812%28
PS5 (PlayStation)24621%29
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)1489%28
PS4 (PlayStation)3540%29
PS4 (PlayStation)3033%29
Switch (Nintendo)130%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGIndieActionSandboxCraftingSurvivalSteampunkOpen WorldSimulationAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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