Revolution Software did a phenomenal job in making sure that Beyond a Steel Sky was a standalone, giving players a strong cold opening while peppering in different flashbacks to help fill in the gaps and keep things cohesive. Players familiar with Beneath a Steel Sky will be the first attracted to this game, but you need zero prior knowledge of the series in order to enjoy the storyline. Using wits, cunning and some colorful NPCs, Foster will discover the secret of Joey and Union City and try to save the lives of everyone, not just in Union City, but even further. Naturally, in a matter of seconds, it becomes clear that something has changed in Union City, and, without spoiling anything, we reveal that we’re still in a dystopian world for a reason. Foster tracks the vehicle back to Union City, where he assumes all is well, under the caring eye of his AI friend, Joey.
Living peacefully in The Gap, his attempts to live an idyllic life are shattered when a bizarre vehicle rises from the nearby lake, attacks him and kidnaps a local child from the Aboriginal tribe. Now, more than twenty five years after the beginning, we are invited back to the world of aware AI and dystopian cyberjunk with Beyond a Steel Sky.Īs a brief rundown, you are once again in the shoes of Robert Foster, orphan hero from the first game who is now grown up and several years departed from the events of Beneath a Steel Sky.
In spite of a remastered edition being put onto multiple current generation machines, fans still clamored for more. Suddenly more people, who clearly had missed it’s initial launch due to being younger and unaware, could now embark on a fascinating post-apocalyptic story set against the Australian alternate world of The Gap, Union City and LINC. Already acclaimed and well received back during it’s 199X release window, the decision of Revolution Software to make it freeware in 2003 was stunningly apt. Developer & Publisher Revolution Software Genre: Action Adventure Nintendo Switch Also On: PlayStation, Xbox, iPhoneīeneath a Steel Sky was a fascinating point and click adventure that, incredibly, only seemed to gain more attention and attraction the longer it lived.
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