Announcing this here again: The Crosspromotion event didn't show it to everyone we wanted this to see
This game is a huge part of our history, and indeed Adventure Game history.
When Charles Cecil & Dave Gibbons work together great things happen..
A cult classic that took AMIGA by storm in 1994
15 whole disks it took then.. Feels like yesterday and forever ago all at once.
Very proud of the 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). It's widely considered as one of the best point and click adventures ever written.
Now on Steam
For the first time ever Beneath A Steel Sky is now on Steam, thanks to the warm reception to the 26 years in the making sequel Beyond A Steel Sky, which we released here first.
Beyond A Steel Sky can be enjoyed on its own, but if you want to travel back in time with us, and maybe find some hidden origins of choices we made when world building the Union City you know and love, then we invite you on a journey, back where it all started...
Beneath A Steel Sky:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368340/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky/
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.
AND YES - THIS IS THE VERSION WITH VOICE ACTING IN IT!
Charles Cecil & Dave Gibbons rejoice over Beneath A Steel Sky on Steam
In case you missed it, we announced this heading to Steam just a few hours before on a live stream. If you've never seen Charles and Dave interact this is going to be a treat. But tread lightly: When people spend this much time world-building they tend to forget what is and isn't a spoiler ;)
Watch on YouTube
Thank you all so much
It's rare and wonderful for us to be so close to all of you. The amount of love you are showing Beyond A Steel Sky has been incomprehensibly meaningful to us as developers, and people.
Because of all the love you have shown us, we were able to bring this game to Steam, and therefore, a whole new generation of gamers. And we're on the edge of our seats to hear what you think.
And to those of you familiar; we are so grateful to see you all playing this game, on a whole new platform. After all of those years it still means so much to you.
You're always welcome on Discord
As developers who have not always had the luxury to be this close to our community, we are not taking this for granted. Thanks to the digitisation of storefronts we are now so much more able to hear from you directly, and we try to always make time to have a little natter / chinwag / hangout session:
discord.gg/revolutionsoftware
AND YES! STEAM LETS YOU LEAVE REVIEWS NOW
For the first couple of hours the platform would not count hour played, and would therefore not let people leave reviews. This has now been fixed! - No update needed!
We hope that you can make up for lost time, queue up the game, and let us know how you find it!
Lots of love from the whole team at Revolution