Sky Escort is a rogue-like card game featuring TD and management. Players roleplay an airborne mercenary,escorting clients' cargo to earn rewards. Buildcard decks, recruit crew members, and customize arms to enrich gameplay. Multiple factions can be chose from, each with unique combat style.
Players build their own decks of cards to customize their playstyle and abilities. The game employs real-time gameplay, requiring players to quickly strategize the order and timing of their card plays to effectively defend against sky pirate attacks, in contrast to traditional turn-based mechanics.
Players must establish various defensive structures, such as turrets, on their airship to automatically ward off sky pirate raids. However, the limited space for building these structures forces players to carefully consider how to most efficiently arrange and upgrade their weapons. To fuel the development and upgrade of their defensive armaments, players must also manage their resources by constructing economic facilities on their airborne vessel.
Players can recruit crew members with different skills to enhance the capabilities of their airship. These crew members can be further upgraded through an academy in the hub city. Additionally, players can refit and upgrade various components of their airship, allowing them to make it more robust and powerful to take on increasingly challenging sky pirate encounters.
The game features several unique factions, each with their own distinct combat styles and gameplay systems. For example, the Monarch faction is described as ruling the skies through violence, possessing strong commercial and industrial capabilities, while the Panda Sages are masters of gasification and powerful spellcasters. This variety in faction-based playstyles adds to the game's replayability and allows players to experiment with different strategies.