Sky Jac
Features:
- Flying
- Exploration
- Climbing
- Platforming
- Immersive Story
- Fighting
- Bosses
- Quirky Characters
- Secrets
The current Early Access version of this game is exactly the same as the demo. It has no additional content. By purchasing the early access version of this game, you are helping support us as developers and you are securing access to all additional content at an incredibly low price.
A legion of merciless robots have destroyed your home world. It is your job to take it back. Armed with future technology that grants you the ability to fly, traverse your way through a VR platforming experience unlike any other as you make your descent back to your home world. Travel through a world filled with incredible environments that tower above and below. Experience scale on a whole new level while flying, physically climbing and exploring strange and exotic places.
You won’t be alone on this grand adventure, prepare to encounter quirky characters around every sharp corner, precarious ledge, or twisted path as an immersive story unfolds around you, making it difficult to determine who you can trust. Will you gain allies or will you make enemies?
Your journey won’t be easy and it won’t be peaceful. Shoot and dodge your way through hordes of dangerous robotic foes with only one purpose: human annihilation. Boss fights will pit you against the greatest of the robot ranks, giant towering machines that will make you question your fighting skills, flying abilities and self-confidence.
Flying in Sky Jac is an awe inspiring experience. We have carefully designed the flying aspect of this game to minimize what is commonly referred to VR motion sickness. If you are prone to VR motion sickness, flying may take a little getting used to. Playing in small doses will help you gain your VR legs but you might find it difficult to stop playing once you have started because flying quickly becomes fun and addictive. We don’t throw you into a flying scenario where you face ridiculous speeds in the beginning of the game. Flying is introduced slowly and gradually giving you time to get comfortable with this locomotion mechanic. If you do start to feel nausea, that is a good indicator that it is time to take a break. Don’t worry, the Sky Jac world is not going anywhere! For those of you who don’t experience VR motion sickness, prepare to have your mind blown.
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
what i like about the game is i have played pretty much all the games on here and this one is not like any, most of the game are all dif ver of the same thing,this is in its own lane and there is no game like this,could it use more, sure but thats early acces for ya,cant wait for more action
Steam User 2
As a disclaimer I got this for free when the Devs posted on /r/Vive with a Steam Key Lottery, but my review is unbiased by that fact.
Sky Jac is a game that, while still definitely being Early Access, is very fun to play and has much more polish than the majority of the games on the Steam VR Market. For a game being developed by a two-person team it is very well done and has a lot of promise, and I'm really looking forward to updates and the final version. I was able to complete the first chapter (all that was out at the time of my review) in just under 30 minutes.
Pros:
- Game ran very well, though I'm on a GTX1080 so take that as you will
- Good voice acting
- Beutiful environments and music
- Motion method did not make me even slightly VR-Sick, and I often get a little VR-Sick in non-teleport locomotion games
- Platforming was very tense and enjoyable (and I'm not usually a platformer kind of guy)
Cons:
- Left hand was kind of useless, it would have been nice to change which hand the jetpack and/or blaster was in
- No options or settings as of 10/25/16, though I imagine this will change later. A toggle jetpack on/off setting would have been appreciated.
Overall, I would recommend the game. It was a lot of fun, and I imagine if you enjoy platformers you'll love this even more than I did.
Steam User 1
Pretty short, but tons of promise -- the first chapter feels like a budget version of "a story about my uncle" in VR. Looking forward to the full release.
Also, I am fairly prone to motion sickness, but I was fine playing this game, which uses both artificial walking locomotion, and artificial jetpack locomotion. This is the only artificial locomotion game that hasn't made me dizzy.
FYI, I got this in a bundle, so I only paid a couple bucks for it, worth that for the experience + promise for more later.
Steam User 1
It's a simple, and currently short, first-person platforming game. No movement except your "jetpack", controlled with one hand's grip. It's a bit frustrating that there's no movement except for the jetpack - the game would really benefit from arm-swinging or another form of locomotion, especially as your jetpack has a cooldown if you use it for 5 straight seconds.
It's well put together, graphics, sound, voice acting are all good, it's just too short at the moment. There's one small section of shooting, but apart from that it's just floating along a fairly linear path. What's there is really nice, but you might want to hold off until there's more content.
Steam User 0
This was fun. It is an attempt on combining a classical Jump'N'Run Game with the VR. This can cause naussea or motion sickness, because you move and fly with your controllers.
Sometimes the movement, especially climbing up ladders, seems a little bit clunky, but The game itself is designed to forgive a lot of mistakes. I like to see more of this.
Steam User 0
I've had the opportunity to beta test Sky Jac and play through the first chapter of the game, which lasts around 45 minutes to an hour. The first chapter of the game is amazing. When I watched the video on Steam, I assumed the robot would disappear after giving me the fuel and the jet pack and I would be on my own to platform away into space. I expected a lot of flying. What I got was an incredibly well built platformer with a pretty decent storyline to boot. I played through the opening chapter and thoroughly enjoyed it. There hasn't been any shooting yet, but shooter aspects are teased near the end of the chapter. I did however get my Spelunky on, climb ladders, use my jet pack for more than just flying around, and got knocked out by some bots. Most of these things were not things I expected. I also didn't expect to have as much fun in the opening chapter of a game. This ranks up there with Mervils and The Gallery for engaging the player into a role and based on the ~60 minutes I have played through, the full game on release may even last longer than either of those games.
For the introductory price of $9.99, I feel like Sky Jac is a game that everyone should pick up. Like Pierhead Arcade, Mervils, Final Approach, The Gallery and A-10VR, Sky Jac holds it's value and if the quality of future chapters lives up to this first chapter, $9.99 is a steal!
Steam User 0
I have my vive from day one and have around 80 titles some full paid games some free games and plus somes demos, So i have seen a lot that the vive has to ofter.
This was until I played Sky Jac, it was just mindblowingly awesome.
The jacpack mechanic was superbly done and when I went into the cave and went down and the epic music started well it was so amazing, the caves felt so real and I was fully consumed in the games world.....it was just wow.
Then climbing out of the hole using the ladders, what a great use of the motion controllers, then jet packing out and holding on the the next platform while the jac pack recharges it was such a great idea.
Once out of there I was jumpimg through high pressure winds going super fast and the game was just getting better and better.
By this time I was thinking to myself this is the next evolutionary jumping from the 2D jumping platform games I play as a kid on the old SNES.
Then it all changed I had found a gun and now I was jet packing around and shooting stuff and they was shooting lazers at me and then a massive robot appeared and I started to shoot at him and he grabbed me........this was no jumping platformer this is a AAA game.
This is 100% awesome