Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

Black Skies is a grounded survival simulation set after an EMP attack that shuts down power, vehicles, and communication across a remote mountain wilderness. Modern systems fail all at once, leaving you to survive in cold, snow-filled terrain where mistakes have real consequences.

You play a forest ranger, with a military past, operating in the Teton Mountains of Wyoming when the event occurs. With infrastructure down and conditions worsening, survival depends on using your training, equipment, and judgment to navigate the environment and stay alive.

The world in Black Skies behaves in logical, real-world ways. Shelter blocks wind and cold. Fire produces warmth. Clothing insulates. Tools do what you expect them to do. The game is built around clear cause and effect, allowing you to reason through situations instead of memorizing abstract mechanics.

What You Do

Travel on foot through harsh terrain.
Manage cold, hunger, thirst, fatigue, health, and mental state.
Find shelter, build fires, scavenge supplies, and retrieve stashed gear.
Decide when to move, when to stop, and how far to push based on conditions and risk.

As you explore, you encounter cabins, sheds, equipment, and signs of prior human activity scattered throughout the wilderness. Situations develop naturally as you move through the world, and how you approach them is up to you.

Key Features

• Realistic Survival Systems
  Warmth, hunger, thirst, fatigue, health, and mental state are simulated based on real-world human biology.

• Cold and Exposure as Core Threats
  Weather, wind, terrain, and timing directly affect survival. Preparation and awareness matter.

• Intuitive Interaction
  Objects behave as you expect. Containers hold items. Fires require fuel and ignition. Tools have practical, specific uses.

• Movement With Consequences
  Traveling consumes time and energy. Poor decisions increase danger, while good preparation improves efficiency.

• Usable Locations
  Cabins, sheds, and field shelters provide warmth, storage, and recovery without turning the game into a base-building sandbox.

• Emergent Situations
  Events and challenges arise through exploration rather than rigid scripting, allowing players to engage with the world at their own pace.

Experience

Black Skies is a deliberate survival game focused on realism, consistency, and meaningful decision-making. It is designed for players who want to survive by understanding their environment and responding to real conditions in a world that makes sense.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Black Skies uses generative artificial intelligence tools as part of the development process for certain content. AI tools are used to assist with drafting in-game text and store page descriptions, which are then reviewed, edited, and curated by the developer before inclusion.

Some in-game voice over content is created using ethical, licensed AI voice technology provided by a professional voice actor who has chosen to make their voice available through a paid agreement. The actor is credited and compensated for each use of their voice. All voice content is authored intentionally for the game and is not generated dynamically at runtime.

No gameplay systems, player behavior, or real-time content generation are controlled by artificial intelligence.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Black Skies contains depictions of survival in a post-collapse environment. Players may encounter themes such as environmental danger, injury, death, and human remains as part of a realistic survival setting. Violence, when present, is situational and non-graphic, arising from accidents, environmental hazards, or survival scenarios rather than being the focus of gameplay.

Serious themes are treated with care and gravity rather than shock value. The intent is to present survival stress, loss, and isolation in a grounded, respectful manner. The treatment of mature subject matter is reviewed to ensure it is handled thoughtfully and responsibly, rather than sensationalized.

The game does not include sexual content, sexual violence, graphic gore, or glorification of self-harm, drug abuse, or criminal behavior.