Skully Reviews

Skully is ranked in the 20th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Aug 4, 2020

For all of its frustration and foibles, Skully's traversal and puzzles make-up the most interesting parts of the game to keep you invested. With a story that manages to actually hit emotionally, it balances out the missteps of the platforming. The collectibles are rather unexciting and the color palette of earth tones lends itself to looking bland, but it'll surprise you. Much like the character, Skully is unassuming and meek, and will fill you with wonder throughout.

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75 / 100
Aug 4, 2020

Skully offers a varied and entertaining alternative to platform and skill games, adding a touch of humour and a lot of difficulty. The summoning system provides new playable mechanics but ends up cutting the pace of the game a bit, even though we'll enjoy it just the same. For people with a lot of skill and infinite patience.

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6 / 10.0
Aug 4, 2020

Skully rolls at its own pace. Which can include some sharp difficulty spikes and lead to some rather frustrating levels. But there’s an undeniable sense of old-school mascot fun to be had here in an adventure that doesn’t overstay its welcome.

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8 / 10.0
Aug 4, 2020

Despite the frustration and anger which Skully built up within me, this challenging puzzle-platformer is very addictive and one of the most visually stunning indies I’ve played this year. Utilising three different clay-based Forms to solve the multitude of environment-based puzzles was fun and tricky at times, often requiring you to combine their various abilities to come up with a solution. The game is quite brutal and unforgiving, especially if you’re going for the platinum, but as long as you have enough patience and perseverance, you’ll make it through to the final cutscene. It has a few flaws and questionable choices, but the journey is worth it in the end.

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8 / 10
Aug 4, 2020

A beautiful, hilarious and all-around cute platformer/roller, Skully is deserving of the praise. The difficulty can ebb and flow at times, but don’t let that put you off.

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7 / 10.0
Aug 4, 2020

The graphics are a lot more polished than in the demo and there is a really good variety in gameplay mechanics. The jumping and chase sequences can definitely be aggravating, but the charming aesthetic and hilarious banter between the siblings will have you coming back for more.

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4.5 / 5.0
Aug 4, 2020

The time in which all indies were inherently exciting and mysterious may have already passed on by us, but Skully shows that indies can be just as magical as they’ve ever been if you know where to look.

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8 / 10.0
Aug 4, 2020

Skully is the complete package for fans of inventive platform games. It takes concepts from traditional platform games and Marble Madness to create an evolution of both that will bring you hours of fun while you try and save the island from impending doom.

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Unscored
Aug 4, 2020

As it is now, Skully is a game I have reservations about recommending. Whether or not it would be easy for the developers to remedy the qualms that I have with checkpointing, as well tightening up the controls and whipping the camera I couldn’t say, but I’m hoping that there is a way for those fixes to happen eventually so I can get back to playing at some point. For as problematic as it is now, I’m more than willing to give it another shot in the future if that somehow comes to pass.

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4 / 5.0
Aug 4, 2020

Although it occasionally becomes tedious and some sections can be frustrating, Skully should please fans of the genre looking for a 3D puzzle platformer with a fun, well-told story to accompany its platforming challenges.

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Evan Norris
Top Critic
5 / 10
Aug 8, 2020

Skully has some good ideas and a surprisingly moving story, yet a lot of the good stuff is undermined by inconsistent gameplay and technical issues.

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3 / 10
Aug 11, 2020

I know some people put a lot of work into this and they may even be proud of it, but the simple truth of the matter is I did not have fun. I didn’t even feel the satisfaction of overcoming a challenge.

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6 / 10
Aug 10, 2020

I can’t help but feel the wiser choice would have been to add some more sarcasm and adult orientated humour. As it stands Skully is an interesting title, taking cues from Super Monkey Ball, Crash Bandicoot and Knack – although lacking the charm of the two former. If you like what you see in the trailer my suggestion would be to pick this one up in a sale, which likely won’t be too far down the road.

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4 / 10.0
Aug 17, 2020

Skully probably could have been a much more fun game than it currently is right now but there were far too many headaches especially physics wise that playing this game while suffering from an ailment that involves a headache to which I did, felt like I needed to be absent from my work for another day. So for those that like a challenge and don’t mind some camera and checkpoint issues then Skully might be a game that one can easily roll with.

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7 / 10.0
Aug 16, 2020

Skully will make us roll and jump through unexpected places, while we solve puzzles with various mud transformations.

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6 / 10.0
Aug 17, 2020

Skully would be a good recommendation, but the port has some technical problems in the graphics and the controls. It is a title that, with its challenging stages and simple storyline, reminds platformers of past generations. That so, the port that should have been released with more care, it is up to us to wait for a patch with corrections.

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Loved
Aug 18, 2020

I do think Skully has lived up to my expectations. I will leave my frustration behind as I find most platform games frustrating at times while playing them, it’s the nature of the genre. Skully is a very enjoyable game and the puzzles are a lot of fun. Set in beautiful environments, with great voice acting and humour. If you are a fan of the genre, Skully is definitely a game you should consider adding it to your Nintendo Switch library.

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8 / 10.0
Aug 20, 2020

Skully is a game that, we have already said, is not going to reveal anything to us that we have not seen before, but what it does, it does it well and beautiful. Skully has that charm of games made with illusion and with no other intention than to escape from reality for a while and roll

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6.4 / 10.0
Aug 24, 2020

Skully is an alright sort of platforming and light puzzle game that features some lovely yet strange environments.

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6.8 / 10.0
Aug 30, 2020

Skully introduces a very satisfying "rolling" gameplay mechanic in nice prehistoric environments, but it's when it tries to diverge from it, giving us an anthropomorphic form and adding puzzles and platforming sections, that it fails. The problematic camera doesn't help, either.

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