Old Skies (2025)
Old Skies is a 2025 point-and-click video game made by Wadjet Eye Games.
Time agent Fia Quinn works for an organization that polices the past, and her caseload is genuinely varied: a speakeasy in Prohibition-era America, the street gangs of the Gilded Age, and a hotel room the night before September 11, 2001. Each of Old Skies' seven trips is a self-contained chapter, written by Wadjet Eye's Dave Gilbert with the studio's characteristic focus on character over puzzle. The time-travel mechanics are thoughtful rather than gimmicky, and the game earns the weight of the historical settings it enters.
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What is Old Skies about?
Time agent Fia Quinn works for an organization that polices the past, and her caseload is genuinely varied: a speakeasy in Prohibition-era America, the street gangs of the Gilded Age, and a hotel room the night before September 11, 2001. Each of Old Skies' seven trips is a self-contained chapter, written by Wadjet Eye's Dave Gilbert with the studio's characteristic focus on character over puzzle. The time-travel mechanics are thoughtful rather than gimmicky, and the game earns the weight of the historical settings it enters.
When was Old Skies released?
Old Skies was released on 23 April 2025.
Who made Old Skies?
Old Skies was made by Wadjet Eye Games.
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A few thoughts on Old Skies
12 Monkeys is the natural companion: a show that uses time travel as a structure for grief and consequence rather than spectacle, with the same willingness to sit inside difficult historical moments rather than skim past them.
Slow-burn mystery adventure games about piecing together the truth
Old Skies spends each chapter untangling a different mystery with patience and care, and these adventure games share that same investigative rhythm. Unforeseen Incidents and Blacksad: Under the Skin lean into detective plotting, The Room 4: Old Sins buries its answers in Victorian-flavored puzzles, and the Rusty Lake trilogy turns quiet investigation into genuine dread.
Case-of-the-week shows where every episode wraps its own mystery
Old Skies structures its seven time-hopping cases the way a great procedural handles its episodes, each one self-contained and satisfying on its own. Law & Order and its Special Victims Unit spinoff built the format, The Mentalist solves everything through pure observation, NCIS treats each case like a fresh puzzle, and The Rookie keeps finding new ones for its beat cop every week.
Mystery novels built around chasing down every clue
Fia Quinn spends Old Skies reconstructing exactly what happened in rooms she wasn't meant to see, and these books run on that same forensic curiosity. The Complete Sherlock Holmes set the template for deduction as entertainment, Mr. Mercedes turns a retired cop loose on one last case, and One of Us Is Next and The Hidden Staircase both trust younger readers to follow every clue.