Old Skies similar games & best alternatives

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Old Skies

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2025

Should you play it?

A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.

What works

  • Engaging and emotional story
  • Clever and logical puzzles
  • High quality voice acting
  • Beautiful and atmospheric art
  • Innovative time travel mechanics

Things to keep in mind

  • Somewhat linear gameplay
  • Limited character customization
  • Puzzles may be too easy for veterans
  • Ending felt abrupt to some players
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Moebius: Empire Rising

  • The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

  • The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav

  • King's Quest

  • Anna's Quest

  • The Dark Eye: Memoria

Less intimate

Games that feels like Old Skies but with less focus on close relationships

  • The Rise of the Golden Idol

  • Simon the Sorcerer Origins

  • The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition

  • The Journey Down: Chapter Two

  • Deponia Doomsday

  • Deponia

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From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Shardlight

  • Blackwell Convergence

  • The Blackwell Legacy

  • Blackwell Deception

  • Blackwell Epiphany

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Old Skies: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Fellowship.

Last update: 21/08/2026