Skyward Shores is a building, crafting and exploring game, like a gentle Valheim. Nothing can hurt you, everything grows back, and every world saves itself on this device. Each world grows from its name, so the same name always makes the same world.

Adventure: pick up branches and pebbles, make a hammer (anywhere) and an axe at the workbench, then chop, build, cook and explore. Running, jumping and swinging tools use stamina; eat food (three slots, like Valheim) for more, and rest by a fire or under a roof to become Rested. Antlers make a pickaxe, flint makes a cultivator for planting, copper from the Fir Forest melts in a forge into better tools, and a cozy cloak keeps you warm in the mountains.

Building pieces snap together like they do in Valheim. Point at the edge of a floor and a wall lines up on it. Point at the top of a wall and a roof sits on it. The preview turns green when it has clicked onto something, even on a house you built turned at an angle. Pieces face the camera; the wheel and Turn spin them. The Land tool raises, digs and smooths the ground. Paint recolours any piece, or the ground. Walk into a step and you hop up it on your own. Click an animal to pet it. The puppy follows you everywhere.