Platforms
- PCAug 4, 2020NAplayscore7.111 CriticsNA0 Players
- PlayStation 4Aug 4, 20206.8playscore6.017 Critics8.1207 Players
- Xbox OneAug 4, 20207.5playscore7.010 Critics8.762 Players
- Nintendo SwitchAug 4, 20207.5playscore6.612 Critics8.8727 Players
39 critic reviews · 0 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Skully has its heart in the right place but can't quite execute things correctly. The movement is zippy when you're in ball form, but you're not going to find too many things to challenge you. The puzzle mechanics are good, but you won't have to think too hard about your next move. It's a fine experience that's not too enthralling due to its unevenness, so it's difficult to stick it out to the end.
Cody Medellin · May 17, 2021 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Fortunately, there was a lot of promise here with Skully. A nice and endearing story with platforming mechanics that make for interesting utility makes the game seem exciting, but it just doesn't execute its plan well. In a way I feel like the game has a bit of an identity crisis; while it could focus on being an excellent marble physics platformer, it has all of these other great ideas that ultimately end up hurting the whole product.
Brandon Brodsky · Oct 01, 2020 Reviewed on PS4 - In all, Skully is a quirky and entertaining romp with fun puzzles and platforming, amusing character interactions, a good story, beautiful music, and awe-inspiring landscapes. Easily an entertaining game that this reviewer can and will gladly come back to time and time again, no bones about it.
Camrin Santchi · Sep 16, 2020 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Skully is a game that is easily forgettable and hardly recommendable. It is something that if you got free through a Games with Gold you would be encapsulated for all of 30 minutes and then likely never play again. It had promise with its quirky story and unique mechanics, but it never capitalizes on any of them, making it feel like yet another game lost in the ether of releases in 2020.
Ken McKown · Aug 25, 2020 Reviewed on XB1Read full review - Skully is a fun platformer with some great gameplay mechanics that are worked out perfectly. Aside from the great gameplay, the story of the game is also pretty fun to follow, as it contains quite a lot of humor through the dialogues in and outside of the levels. The puzzles you encounter are pretty well made and the abilities provided by the different forms of Skully provide multiple solutions for one problem. If you like platformers and like following a story with quite a bit of humor, then we’d definitely recommend Skully for your next game.
Nickskuh · Aug 24, 2020 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - 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.
Jett Vincent Sia · Aug 17, 2020 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - Skully has other issues too. A strange bug meant that I twice lost control of the golems, watching helplessly as they plunged into the nearest hazard. Sometimes when climbing vines, Skully would fall off for no reason. There were invisible walls, times when Skully deflected off platforms at an unnatural angle, and times when the lava would just disappear. A lot of players will likely give up before they reach the end of the game.
Rebecca Smith · Aug 11, 2020 Reviewed on PS4Read full review - A very respectable attempt at creating a 3D puzzle platformer but its pacing issues and somewhat frustrating camera design prevent Skully from being a great game. Still, there's some good value there for those willing to dish out the hefty $30 price tag.
Kurt Perry · Aug 04, 2020 Reviewed on PCRead full review - While Skully is undoubtedly a fun and enjoyable platformer, the texture issues that it faces are too big a problem to ignore. Despite the great voice acting and storytelling, the visual issues sadly outweigh this in terms of affecting your gameplay. Skully could have been amazing, but sadly it sits bang in the middle of good instead.
Megan Walton · Aug 04, 2020 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review - Skully isn’t an entirely lost cause. There’s an entertaining enough puzzle platformer hidden underneath its myriad visual flaws. It may be uglier than sin and you may be accompanied by an irritating voiceover throughout, but you’ll still have some fun playing through it and the plot does resolve itself in a nice way by the end. You'll just need to be able to roll with a lot of annoyances to get there.
Chris Scullion · Aug 04, 2020 Reviewed on SwitchRead full review
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About the game
Trailers & Screenshots:
On a mysterious remote island, a skull washes up on shore and is reawakened by an enigmatic deity. Dubbed Skully, the newly reanimated being has been summoned to intervene in a war between the deity’s three siblings, whose quarrel jeopardizes the island they call home.
Developer: Finish Line Games