Sky Legends – An Aeropostal Epic has you venturing via aviation historical past one simulated flight expertise or head-scratching puzzle at a time.
Regardless of having taken eight transatlantic flights up to now three years (and a bucketload extra short-haul), I’m embarrassed to confess I do know little or no about aviation historical past. I respect the numerous contributions made by icons just like the Wright Brothers and Amelia Earhart, although my information of their achievements is proscribed at finest. Enter Sky Legends – An Aeropostal Epic, a narrative-focused flight simulator that seeks to information gamers via aeronautic historical past in VR.
At Gamescom 2025, I went hands-on with the speedy demo of Sky Legends, taking part in via three of its storied missions, which centered round airplane maintenance, route charting, and, in fact, piloting.
The primary situation of the demo put me behind the wheel of a seaplane, skimming the ocean tops to expertise the primary continuous airmail flight throughout the South Atlantic, which was initially accomplished by daring French aviator Jean Mermoz in 1930. Fortunately for my arms, whereas the real-world flight reportedly lasted twenty hours, the extent is over and achieved in round 5 minutes.
Plopped within the pilot’s seat, the cartoon cockpit in entrance of me comprises a compass, radio, and steering wheel. Surviving the voyage forward requires you to handle all three. From a gameplay perspective, this implies periodically tuning the radio and following shifting compass instructions to remain heading in the right direction. On high of cockpit administration, there are additionally exterior obstacles to bristle in opposition to within the type of aggressive direction-changing headwinds and damaging lightning strikes.
Sky Legends makes use of hand monitoring as a substitute of counting on controllers, so I must pinch to shift the radio dial and grip to work together with the steering wheel. Admittedly, this course of feels unusual at first, and attempting to understand the ghost steering wheel is a bit unnatural. Nevertheless, over the course of the flight, the immersive worldbuilding works properly to distract from the dearth of tactile inputs. Protected to say, after a number of shut calls, I survived the virgin voyage unscathed.
Mercifully, the second expedition is considerably extra tame, with Sky Legends sending me to a hangar in Brazil to repair up the lettering on a stationary aircraft. This duties you with inspecting and appropriately figuring out the particular mannequin of car, then matching it to certainly one of three photos offered. From right here, I would like to select from a pool of overlapping stencils and paste them onto the ship. Sadly, not like the flying portion of the demo, the hand monitoring right here isn’t fairly as easy, needing a number of makes an attempt to efficiently affix these stencils.
Switching gears one final time, the ultimate degree takes place within the metropolis of Toulouse – a metropolis related to the French aeronautical business. It is centered round organizing a flight path by inspecting the symbols on miniature busts and putting them so as on a map in line with their markings. An interesting idea in principle, however the precise course of is a little bit too easy to be actually difficult or rewarding, which is a disgrace.
No matter any hand monitoring points or overly easy puzzles, Sky Legends – An Aeropostal Epic actually piqued my curiosity in aviation historical past and lets me immerse myself in achievements I’ve beforehand taken with no consideration. Bolstered by its constant cartoonish visible model and time-coded rating, I’m curious to see what different gravity-defying triumphs will make the lower at launch.
Sky Legends – An Aeropostal Epic is coming to Steam and Quest subsequent yr.
