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One of last year’s best PC survival games, Forever Skiesis finally spreading its wings and making its way onto PS5 next year, and console gamers have already had a chance to taste it with a demo available now.

Forever Skies is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi survival game set on a ravaged planet Earth, which is looking seriously worse after an “ecological disaster”. Players must scavenge for resources to survive, while also upgrading and piloting an airship to get around, and balancing finding a cure for a strange disease to boot. It’s got a lot going on, and it was released in early access on Steam last June to a flurry of glowing reviews, bolstering a “Very Positive” rating on the platform (we got a lot of praise for it in our own Forever Skies reviewalso).

Over a year later, the developers at Far From Home are gearing up for Forever Skies 1.0 launch, which they hope will be released simultaneously on both PC and PS5 next year. Existing players can expect progression changes, random encounters, and more. But in the meantime, PS5 owners can dive into a demo right now that gives a taste of what’s on offer, and unlock a PlayStation-exclusive skin for your airship if you complete all available objectives.

In one PlayStation blog postFar From Home community manager Greg Cummings says the demo will probably take players between an hour and a half to two and a half hours to complete – you can expect it to take closer to an hour if you’re just following the objectives. There’s obviously a lot the demo can’t show for that long — most notably, you can’t explore beneath the toxic dust beneath it — but the “vertical slice” aims to offer “a streamlined introduction to some of our best features.”

There’s still no exact release date for Forever Skies on PS5, but it’s simply slated for next year at the time of writing. But one Steam blog post says that the survival game’s 1.0 launch is expected to come within “the first few months of 2025,” so if the developers can release it simultaneously on both platforms as planned, it sounds like it won’t be too long to wait.

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