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Idle Skies – Simulation Game Review
Idle Skies is a Simulation game from Crimson Pine Games sp. z o.o., first launched in 24th October 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,632+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Skies Stand Out
If you like aircraft or spaceships, are interested in their history, and have a knack for business – you’ll love IDLE Skies
Witness the history of air travel from its earliest days to the distant future. IDLE / CLICKER game mechanics allow you to progressively unlock subsequent wonders of technology in a laid back manner, to satisfy your curiosity.
Explore the fascinating world of aviation, from its humble beginnings, through its golden age, and far into the future that still lies within the realm of science-fiction.
The game will feature 10 languages to make it easier for the majority of players to delve right into developing and upgrading their aircraft or spacecraft, as well as increasing their knowledge about them without worrying about the language barrier. For instance: did you know that the oldest parachute design appears in a manuscript from the 1470s?
The game is full of beautiful, fully animated 3D models, with shadow and light effects. Every age has its unique atmosphere, and it is very satisfying to watch your sky empire grow and fill with newly unlocked machines.
You should definitely check out IDLE Skies. It is deceptively simple, yet challenging and rewarding, as unlocking all ages and machines is quite a feat indeed!
Features:
- First Idler with educational aspect nested on the App Store!
- Simple, Casual gameplay with opportunities to challenge yourself
- Lots of aircrafts and spaceships to unlock
- Dozens of Upgrades
- 6 Eras to explore
- Prestige system
- Wonderful 3D graphics with pixel perfect UI and animations
- Achievements
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Skies is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th June 2020
Recent improvements include:
Minor bug fixed
Download & Availability
Idle Skies is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Yeah we really like this game and can you make it so you can make your own plane at the end of every era but if you do make it so you can make it amosme.
This game is historic we love it and all but the ads are killing us.
We really like this game it looks very good but one thing we really want to see is that when you buy the planes they appear at the top area and they fly around is it possible you could add that to the game.
This game is the very best we have 2billion engenders and am at universe so worth the 0$ fore it lol.
So… This glitch happens right after you buy a plane. So we buy the plane, and then is gets rid of it and tells us to buy it again. We hope you can fix this cause if you can this would be a great game.
We love the history thats been added to the game. We cant wait to see more of this.
So we wish the eras were this pioneers golden age to the moon galaxy universe multiverse.
We like the way the game goes but add more things and also we like how theres all these different hobbies you can do.
As the title says the game in its current state is a little bare one, though fun and a fair idle game. You are not forced to watch ads, its only an added option. One thing Id like to see added (besides the gameplay extensions) is the ability to buy the max amount of upgrades affordable. * the developers actually listened! Ill change the rating to 5stars. Waiting for the new content updates as well, keep up the good work.
Asks you to watch an ad after every attempt and forces you to watch one after every 3 attempts.
We hate in app purchases so dont do them any more.
When we first saw this game, it made our mind blown away and had it on pre-order. We had it on pre-order for 2 weeks and it comes out and we played the first thing. We hope this game has updates soon, we will be very thrilled with this game if so.
Its not the most in depth game ever, but thats what makes it fun. Instead of being the typical app that spams your screen with 10 second ads every third upgrade, there are only option ads which gives bonus. The trivia about each plane or even future possibilities is honestly the best addition this game could have added. 5/5 will continue to play for a long time.
Games good. Check your description for mars satellite again. Its the space plane description. Otherwise love it.
This game is definitely unique in a good way, Im at the last level and we didnt receive our achievement for reaching it… Perhaps we have to prestige again? Who knows… However if we Prestige we know we cant gain anymore engineers and at the moment Im grinding videos to gain engineers… Honestly we hope for more levels, we hope for more updates, we hope for leaderboards, we hope for a lot more. Is there anything you can answer crimson pine developers? We send you an email and we never received any reply after three weeks now so this is our last resort. Anyways love the game, hope for more. It is basic and when you reach the last universe era, and unlock the last space craft (9th detention jumper) thats about it for the game. Im just pressing for engineers and multiplying our income in the mean time.
The game was really good at first but the Mars satellite is has the same info as the space plane.
2 stars for using aircrafts as the topic. 0 Stars for lack of originality in gameplay. Identical to other idle games that have prestiging and tapping to level. Ill hang onto this to see if it becomes more than a school project.
We are a sucker for idle games. We absolutely love them. So anytime we see a new idle game come out, we download it and give it a good 2 weeks test drive. Ive been playing this one for about two weeks now, well, less than 2 weeks, and we dont think we can make it any more on the game. It started off fun, but quickly became very mundane. There is some cool trivia about the planes you unlock along the way, but that is about the only thing the game has going for it. Once proceeding to the Golden Age, things come to a screeching halt. We are talking Trumps wall here. There are ads you can activate to earn extra money and speed time, but there is no depth to the game. It is extremely linear with no real feel to it. The bottom line is that the game leaves a lot to be desired. There is no depth and little to keep you wanting to play. There are in app purchases, but we dont want to spend money on a game that doesnt show anything to look forward to. We give it a 3/10.
We love reading about the planes we think it makes it twice as fun to get another plane. We always look forward to getting another plane we think the app is great so far. Keep up the good work.
If you like idlers and aviation history, this is the game for you. Only thing Id change is having a countdown on some of the longer bars.
Everytime we try to buy the paper airplane it doesn't give us money for some reason (please respond so you could fix this please).
We would rate this 5 stars if the game worked by when we got engineers we clicked paper air plane and we get no cash and it broke.
When you pre order a game from that App Store that seems cool so you wait for it to come out and when it finally does all it says is pre ordered so you cant actually play or check out the game but somehow you can give it a review nice job apple wish we could see how this game turns out.
Awesome we love this game we did the lee order on this game because we thought it would have been so awesome and we were completely right thank you for making this game.
Hi there. This looks like a very interesting game so we had clicked the pre order button when we saw it under the pre order tab. Now that it has come out it says view and when we click it nothing happens. It says we dont have it in our storage but in the App Store it doesnt let us download it. Is this just us or is it something else.
We cant get the app to download on our iPad and we pre ordered it but on the App Store it still says pre ordered and not open like it would if it was downloaded.
This is a simple but fun game, if you are a fan of tycoon games and planes this is the game for you.
The game was super buggy when it was first released but Im glad the developers updated it right away so that it stopped crashing. It still crashes from time to time, but not like before which was constantly! The game is fun and great for killing time so perfect for its function.
Great game but heats up the phone so fast its not worth it. Iphone 7+ with all other apps closed takes about 5 mins before the phone is hot. Shouldnt be doing thay for sucha simple game.
We paid to pre order this by accident when we were drunk. We didnt mean to get it but it was ok at first. But it very quickly slowed down to the point of absolute boredom unless we decided to watch constant 30 second ads. Mind you, Ive already dropped some money into this game. The Apple App Store has become shameless.
Just lost several hours of offline income after using an ad to double it did not allow us to return to the game. We promptly deleted this game after this happened.
We honestly love idle games but once we got in here whenever Id upgrade something the next time we would go on we would lose our upgrades, Im writing this review because Ive had enough after we went on and all our engineers were gone we dont think Ill ever go back to this game.
The game is nice for an idle game at first. You progress nicely and can use upgrades decently as well. Its expected to slow down some, but your progress all but halts after you hit the golden age and they want you to start viewing ads to speed up your process or pay for the in game currency. We tried watching an ad to speed up our process but your button is broken. Video would not load for the speed up process or spin the wheel. We dont like free to play games that force you to spend money in order to make the slightest hint of progress. Whats the point of it being free at that point.
Spent so much of time and then you teach the player after a long progress to reset the entire game! YOU HAVE TO BE THE WORST GAME DESIGNER ON EARTH! You need to visit a Hospital.
Overall the game is good when it works but we had a question how do you restart the game.
Every time we try to click something it crashes but our brother plays it and it works perfectly fine.
You need to watch adds to progress fast if not good luck grinding for hours.
Best game ever amazing planes and everything please make more.
App wont stay open. Shuts down once you press the button for paper airplanes. Opens to main page and then promptly shuts down. Please fix.
Its SOOO much fun we totally recommend.
When the game loaded up in the tutorial, we press the button to upgrade a plane and the game crashes at the same point, all the time.
Ive only had this game for 1 day and its amazing. The graphics and gameplay are out of this world and we wish we could say more. Please people reading this, we hope you follow us and join the journey of aviation.
Every single time we try to load up the game it just crashes its bull crap. We were looking forward to this game to today but no because every single time we try to play it crashes and Ive used our WiFi, our schools wifi, and the LTE WiFi we get wherever we go and it still crashes its bull.
The game is very much like Adventure Capitalist but with a aero-space theme. Its a pretty solid pass time game.
There are very few ads, and all are optional. And if by a chance you do feel like spending some money on the in-app purchases, they are extremely reasonable compared to other games that rob you. We havent spent a cent yet and Im progressing fast and happy with everything the game has to offer. 10/10 would recommend to those who enjoy idle games.
We preordered the app and when we saw it we told our friends now it has been released and we cannot stop playing! Good job.
We have been waiting for this game to come out for a while now. This looks like a game with a lot of potential and a idle game that we can really enjoy.
We absolutely cannot stop playing Idle Skies if we need to pass time we tap on this app.
Great game to pass the time and learn more about airplanes. And how we got to where we are in todays aviation.
Buying the first plane crashes the game. Is this a joke.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.0
- Size: 208.36 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN, DE, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Crimson Pine Games sp. z o.o.
Last updated: 30th June 2020 | Genre: Simulation | Developer: Crimson Pine Games sp. z o.o.