Desert Skies
Early access since May 2019
Desert Skies takes survival to the air! Build an airship and fly on an adventure through the deserts of the Wild West. Look for places to land and scavenge for loot, expand your airship and craft new equipment, but beware the dangers lurking beneath the sands!
56% positive · 470 reviews
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In early access, content planned but development status unclear
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Content Planned
Development Uncertain
Not yet
In early access, content planned but development status unclear
Low confidence
Content Planned
Development Uncertain
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Steam $19.99
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Evaluation
Desert Skies entered Steam Early Access on May 30, 2019 and has never reached a 1.0 release. The developer, White_Rabbit_Games, shipped a series of meaningful updates between 2019 and 2021, including new biomes, caves, crafting overhauls, farming, and a major switch from procedural generation to a fixed open world (Update 1.16, shipped May 12, 2021). That update explicitly described the open world as "just the beginning" and outlined plans for new world-building tools, hand-crafted areas, unique biomes with hills and canyons, and cooperative multiplayer that was described as nearly ready for testing.
The last developer post of any kind was a bug fix update on May 20, 2021. Since that date — more than five years ago — there has been no news post, patch, roadmap update, or any other official communication from the developer. The game remains in Early Access with no 1.0 release, and the substantial content the developer publicly committed to (multiplayer, new enemies, expanded biomes, permanent world saving, and more) has not been publicly delivered or officially cancelled.
The combination of unfinished Early Access status, a large slate of promised but undelivered features, and over five years of complete silence from the developer makes the current state of development genuinely uncertain.
Evidence
Last developer communication of any kind — a bug fix patch. No posts of any type have followed since this date.
Update 1.16 introduced a fixed open world but explicitly described it as 'just the beginning,' with plans for new world-building tools, hand-crafted areas, unique biomes, weather effects, and cooperative multiplayer described as nearly ready for testing.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
White_Rabbit_Games
Achievements
—
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Floating on a creaky wooden airship above a vast desert filled with treasures and dangers, players will journey deep into the Wild West as they survive the harsh landscape and save a young America from a monstrous threat.
It began with rumours of terrifying creatures attacking people at the far frontier. Then the first town was wiped out. Now years have passed and everyone has fled east, leaving behind a ghost land.
You were part of an expedition organised by famed scientist Nikola Tesla to investigate the creatures and their origin. A fully stocked hot air balloon kept you all safely off the desert floor, until a sandstorm destroyed most of the airship and took the rest of your team with it.
Now you're the sole survivor, out of supplies and clinging to what's left of your airship as it drifts down towards the sand. You've spotted some wagons in the desert ahead and have just enough fuel to make it there. You might find supplies, and if you can scavenge enough to get back into the air then you might be able to limp from location to location and rebuild enough to fly far west, solve the mystery and stop the monsters...
But that means landing. The creatures are attracted to noise, and on the desert floor they can hear you scream.
Fly
Ride the winds over the desert biomes in your hot air balloon powered airship. Build a propeller engine and a helm to pilot your airship.Explore
Land to explore abandoned towns, attacked outposts, underground caves and more.Run!
Explore quickly and quietly, for whenever you land the Seeker hunts you from beneath the sands!Loot
Search each location for the items you need to survive, build and craft.Build
Build your airship into a multi story floating fortress packed with crafting stations.Fight!
Craft weapons and turn the tide on the Seeker!Harvest
Harvest resources from the desert to help you on your adventure.Craft
Craft items, tools, weapons and more.Win!
Your goal isn't just survival, but victory! Can you survive long enough, can you build and craft yourself strong enough, to reach the heart of the desert, solve the mystery of the creatures' origin and fight your way to victory?The Desert Skies Story
It's the American Wild West gone horribly wrong.It began with rumours of terrifying creatures attacking people at the far frontier. Then the first town was wiped out. Now years have passed and everyone has fled east, leaving behind a ghost land.
You were part of an expedition organised by famed scientist Nikola Tesla to investigate the creatures and their origin. A fully stocked hot air balloon kept you all safely off the desert floor, until a sandstorm destroyed most of the airship and took the rest of your team with it.
Now you're the sole survivor, out of supplies and clinging to what's left of your airship as it drifts down towards the sand. You've spotted some wagons in the desert ahead and have just enough fuel to make it there. You might find supplies, and if you can scavenge enough to get back into the air then you might be able to limp from location to location and rebuild enough to fly far west, solve the mystery and stop the monsters...
But that means landing. The creatures are attracted to noise, and on the desert floor they can hear you scream.
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Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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