Find and craft ancient technology, build your own skyship, brave ferocious storms, and battle giant threats that await beyond the horizon.

Embark on an adventure through the remnants of ancient civilizations. Uncover the mystery of their downfall and employ their advanced technology to aid your journey. Navigate a shattered world ravaged by storms, revel in lands reclaimed by nature, and face the colossal beings still roaming the skies that brought about humanity’s destruction.

With a vast world to explore, you’ll need to build your own skyship to navigate the open skies. Lost Skies’ unique ship crafting system allows you to intricately shape your ship's hull, and freely place parts where you want, taking care to consider the quality and weight of the materials you use. Not only is your skyship your home in the clouds, it is also your warship to take into battle and survive treacherous weather.

Flow effortlessly through the skies’ broken landscapes with a physics-based grappling hook. Climb, glide, and fly as you use your own creativity for both traversal and dynamic combat. Enter a seamless world where you are free to travel to any landmark you can see on the horizon.

Bossa Games has revealed a series of new gameplay screenshots for Lost Skies featuring a first look at how players will traverse, explore and adventure across the game’s extraordinary world of floating islands.

These above new images show many of the elements teased in Lost Skies’ animated announcement trailer, and show how Bossa Games is building an exciting experience of cooperative survival and adventure in the shattered world of Foundation.

“Alongside our playtest of the game, we have also released a playtest build of our Island Creator tool, which allows players to build their own floating islands and upload them. Our current, pre-alpha playtest has added new islands to explore, including islands made by our community which already show off the complexity and beauty of our islands, and the fragments of ruined civilisations from before the mysterious event that shattered the world.”

“Our goal at Bossa Games is to build the best worlds for friends to have fun together in, while ensuring that no experience is locked off for solo players. If you can see somewhere, we want you to be able to reach it, alone or with your friends - whether you are climbing, gliding, grappling or flying.”

“Lost Skies is inspired by an earlier game made by Bossa, Worlds Adrift, and we have taken many popular mechanics and improved them. The crags and ruins of our islands make perfect playgrounds for grappling and swinging, with our physics-based grappling hook - our community is already finding new ways to reach unexpected places using agility and momentum”

Lost Skies has been developed in collaboration with its community in a process of open development. A selected group of playtesters from the Lost Skies Discord community has been testing limited builds and giving feedback directly to the developers.

Bossa Games this week introduced a new set of playtesters to the first pre-alpha playtest build of Lost Skies, which gives playtesters a continuous tutorial experience and insight into how mechanics such as climbing, grappling, harvesting, crafting and combat interact to give players a cohesive experience of the first hours of play.

“We’ve been gathering feedback from our community since we announced Lost Skies, and they have given us vital feedback on what works and doesn’t work, what is too easy or too difficult and many other gameplay elements,” said Luke Williams, Lead Designer of Lost Skies. “With our move into pre-alpha, we can bring in more playtesters, get more feedback and keep expanding and improving the game.”

Playtesters are drawn from the Lost Skies Discord community, which can be joined here.

Key Features:

• Adventure across a massive open world of unique, hand-crafted floating islands, with daunting weather walls dividing the sky into regions, each with their own visuals, resources, and wildlife to discover. With beautiful views of the cloudscape and a serene soundtrack, there is always room for some down time to take in the sights or build in peace.
• Play solo or with up to 6 players on player-hosted servers, and experience an ever-expanding world as Bossa Games and the community continuously add more islands to the game.
• Every island is filled with combat, discovery, and puzzling ancient technology for you to decipher, driving your exploration as you obtain loot and unlock paths to delve deeper into the islands where further mysteries await. Contend with both curious and hostile wildlife that has taken over the world in the absence of humans.
• Your grappling hook, glider, climbing ability, and more mobility options give you the freedom to explore the islands as you wish, taking full advantage of the game’s setting among the clouds. Uncover hidden underside caverns, swing to the top of the tallest spire—nowhere is off limits.
• Get inventive with an intricate ship-building system that allows you to shape every facet of your skyship—from the shape of the hull, to where each cannon will go, to furnishing the mess hall. Build up a single ship for yourself or your crew of friends over the course of your adventure, or each build your own ship as part of a fleet. You and your friends have limitless creative options for how you wish to explore the skies.
• An underlying physics engine impacts everything from your skyship’s flight to your character’s traversal. Decide whether you want a lightweight or lumbering design, and feel the forces of gravity as you leap to new places.
• Enjoy a survival experience focused on exploration and crafting. A flexible crafting system considers material weight and properties to impact the stats and physical attributes of crafted items. Balance your ship and equipment with the right materials to maximise their performance.
• Engage in epic naval-style boss fights. Take your skyship into tense battles and exchange cannon fire with the giant ancient beings responsible for the end of humanity. Each one will test the skills and technology you have accumulated so far, and hold the keys to travelling to the farthest corners of the world.

Lost Skies is in development for PC (Steam) in 2023.