Beneath a Steel Sky
Beneath a Steel Sky is a cyberpunk, point and click, adventure game. You assume the role of Robert Foster and embark on a quest to make the world a better place, along with your robot companion Joey.
Beneath a Steel Sky is an adventure developed by Revolution Software, released 1 March 1994 on Amiga CD32, Amiga, DOS and iOS. It is free to play. The main story takes about 7.6 hrs to finish.
What Beneath a Steel Sky is
Beneath a Steel Sky is an adventure game developed by Revolution Software and released in 1994. It is available on Amiga CD32, Amiga, DOS, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Virtual Theatre.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Robert Foster was stranded as a child in a place called The Gap. There he was adopted by the local Aboriginals living there. After several years The Gap is attacked by security officers, killing the locals and taking Robert back to Union City. He manage to escape and finds out more and more about the corruption that runs society.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Beneath a Steel Sky holds a critic score of 91 out of 100. That places it above 96% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1994 averaged 72, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Players rate it 84, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.6 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Beneath a Steel Sky launched on 1 March 1994, within three weeks of Super Metroid and X-COM: UFO Defense. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2.
Released around the same time: Super Metroid, X-COM: UFO Defense.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Beneath a Steel Sky yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 5
Dlc
Remasters
Quick answers
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