Skyling: Garden Defense is a game about blooming plants, avoiding monsters and annoying some sleepy cats. Players help a young girl named Bloom restore the gardens of Skyling back into a lush utopia. Adorable blight monsters have ruined the land, and it’s up to Bloom to touch every square of the garden mazes and bring them back to life. Be careful, the monsters are still roaming around waiting to snatch young Bloom. Players must use their wits and utilize switches, gates and elevators to avoid capture. Sleepy garden cats also call these gardens home. Cats can be picked up and moved to hold down switches or block a monsters path. They don’t mind, they’ll sleep anywhere.
Features:
• Skyling: Garden Defense will appear in the Xbox Store on April 19
• The price is set at $5. Part of our ‘Less-Than-A-Latte’ pricing scheme.
• Availability in more countries will follow later this year.
• Contains 30 garden mazes to play.
• There are no ads or in-app purchases.
• Content is lighthearted and suitable for all ages.
• Scoring is based on collected items, monsters defeated and speed.
• Leaderboards and Achievements are available through Xbox Live
• Never feel stuck, always have fun. Play the levels in any order you like.
• Yes, we know the title sounds like a tower defense game. Lesson learned.
The title looks like an interesting, challenging and rather cute puzzle game. We’ve had the good fortune to try it out ahead of launch and can say that it is a lot of fun. While the initial puzzles are quite simple and serve as tutorials, the latter ones demand great timing and studying the movements of your enemies. Be sure to keep an eye out on this one and we’ll have a review up for you soon.
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.