BEYOND A STEEL SKY
NEED TO KNOW
RELEASE
TBC 2019
DEVELOPER
Revolution Software
PUBLISHER
In-house
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Before we dive in, some history. Back in 1994, Revolution Software, the UK studio behind the Broken Sword series, released a point-and-click adventure called Beneath a Steel Sky. Set in a future Australia, it followed the adventures of Robert Foster, an outback wanderer who found himself stranded in the dystopian Union City. The game was notable for the involvement of Dave Gibbons, the artist behind Alan Moore’s Watchmen comics, and it was a commercial and critical success.
FIRST LOOK
Beneath a Steel Sky could have easily been forgotten, one of those adventure game curios that we occasionally dig out of the archives to fondly remember. But for years it’s been one of the games people receive for free, which has kept its heart beating. Not to mention a recent mobile port, which lets you play the thing on a modern smartphone.
