After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.
All Reviews:
Very Positive (462) - 90% of the 462 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Mar 4, 1994

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Recommended

“A masterclass in writing characters and creating amosphere. A worthy staple of the genre. And with it being free, there's no reason not to give it a go.”

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About This Game

After being brutally abducted from his village in the wasteland, his village obliterated, and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster escapes a helicopter crash and finds himself alone save for the circuit board of his best friend, Joey, the AI he built as a child. Foster soon resurrects Joey and together they find themselves in Union City, where oppressed citizens live and work in soaring tower blocks, under the strict control of a brutal, fascist, AI dictatorship – whilst the corrupt, covetous and rich live below, shielded from the choking pollution.

In the melting pot of Union City, a not so impossible future, mankind’s worse nightmares are waiting to emerge from beneath the steel sky. It's Man against Man. Man against Machine. Man against Time.

Strangers in a strange land, Foster and Joey must survive long enough to discover the sinister truth behind his abduction - why they specifically came for him - and defeat the evil before it’s too late. It’s a terrifying threat that only you can liberate… Maybe.

Featuring Revolution's Software innovative Virtual Theatre system, Beneath a Steel Sky is a gripping cyberpunk science fiction point and click adventure game. Art directed by award-winning comic book artist Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Beneath a Steel Sky is widely considered as one of the best point and click adventures ever written.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Infrequent cartoon violence
Use of tobacco

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows XP / Vista 7 / 8 / 10
    • Processor: 1 GHz
    • Memory: 256 MB RAM
    • Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Storage: 87 MB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

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