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Sky: Children of the Light

A gentle social journey testing little beyond exploration and cooperation.

Here's the argument for where this game sits - disagree freely.
Match your experience?
EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10

the cheat-test profile

The four axes - the argument

Each axis is rated on its own - how far one cheat would trivialize the game here. They don't trade off; low on all four means the game is an experience, not a contest.

  1. Execution

    cheat: Aimbot - perfect inputs

    2/10

    Gentle flight controls with no failure pressure

  2. Reads

    cheat: Out-predict an adaptive opponent

    0/10

    Other players are companions, not adversaries

  3. Variance

    cheat: See what's hidden / map the RNG

    1/10

    Daily events rotate on known schedules

  4. Optimization

    cheat: A perfect solver / coach

    3/10

    Candle routes and collectible runs are lightly optimisable

How to read this

Each axis is named by the cheat that would break the game along it. Execution is the hands. Reads is out-thinking an adaptive opponent. Variance is hidden information & RNG. Optimization is the solvable systems layer. A game's region is the top one or two axes.

These four aren't one rating split four ways - they're independent 0-10 questions. A 9 on one axis takes nothing from the others, and a game low on all four isn't missing data: it's telling you there's no skill here to cheat.

The basis is how the majority actually plays this game - not a niche mode or a personal run. For a game with very different modes (a story campaign versus ranked multiplayer), that's the version most people mean.

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Game details

Released
2019
Developer
ThatGameCompany
Platforms
PS4, Android, PC, iOS, Switch
Modes
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
IGDB critics
82/100
IGDB users
70/100
PuzzleRole-playing (RPG)AdventureIndieFantasy