Yesterday during Summer Games Fest, we got to go hands-on with the debut game from developer Soft Rains known as Ambrosia Sky. We had no idea what the game was going into our demo, and it took us completely by surprise. From the first moment of the trailer to actually getting our hands on the game, the art style of the game is visually striking and I couldn’t take my eyes off how gorgeous it looks.

Ambrosia Sky puts you in the role of Dalia who is working as a cleaner to remove fungus around spacecrafts while also being part of a team that is searching among the stars to find a cure to death. She is a cleaner in the literal sense as you spend the game using your sprayer, akin to Power Wash Simulator, to clean up the ships and complete objectives you are tasked with. The demo we played consisted of two short levels that had us trying to do two different things. The first was to find a specific fruit known as a Leviathan Heart and the second had us searching for someone who had die who wanted to contribute their body to help find the death cure.

Dalia is equipped with her handy sprayer that has three separate spray nozzles which include: narrow which is more focused and covers more distance, vertical which is good for getting the fungus in tighter spaces, and horizontal which just floods out whats in front of you. Along with the different nozzles, she also has different types of sprays. There’s the basic water spray, an electric spray that helps in puzzles to restart power, and a flamable spray that ignites everything it touches. Then, the developers did say there will be more sprays to unlock throughout the game. The Sprayer and sprays can also be unlocked and upgraded by collecting fungal fruits, but we did not get to see that.

Where Ambrosia Sky really stands out is in its artistic design. It reminds me of almost a watercolor painting in how the animations occur and how the environments look. Most space games are either hyper real or very cartoony, but this game stands out compared to most other games that have the same setting. Plus, the story, at least the last will and testaments of characters you find, are portrayed in comic panel style cutscenes that take full advantage of the art the developers went for.