There are very few actionable areas per screen you can interact with, but it doesn’t make the game feel limited as nothing really seems to be there to act as “filler”. These options are presented via an arrow cursor on the screen that will show a label if you hover over a hot spot you can interact with. You have a circuit board in your inventory and only two real options for interacting with the world: “move” or “interact”. You start the game following a helicopter crash in a factory.
Having been a huge fan of the Watchmen trade paperback when I was younger, seeing the same style translated directly into an adventure game made this an instant classic for me. He escapes and soon uncovers the corruption which lies at the heart of society.ĭave Gibbons collaborated on the artwork for this game, which explains why the intro sequence is so visually stunning. After many years, armed security officers arrive, killing the locals and taking Robert back to Union City.
Set in a dystopian future, the player assumes the role of Robert Foster, who was stranded in a wasteland known as “the Gap” as a child and adopted by a group of local Aboriginals, gradually adjusting to his life in the wilderness. The game was made available as freeware ( download at GOG.com) – and with the source code released – for PC platforms in 2003. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here.īeneath a Steel Sky is a 1994 cyberpunk science fiction point-and-click adventure game developed by British developer Revolution Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for MS-DOS and Amiga home computers. This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series.
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