Beneath a Steel Sky
| Beneath a Steel Sky | |
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| Developer(s) | Revolution Software |
| Publisher(s) | Virgin Interactive |
| Designer(s) |
Charles Cecil Daniel Marchant Dave Cummins Dave Gibbons Tony Warriner |
| Engine | Virtual Theatre |
| Platform(s) | DOS, Amiga, Amiga CD32, iOS, Unix, Microsoft Windows, OS X |
| Release |
DOS & Amiga
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| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Review scores | |
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| Publication | Score |
| Adventure Gamers |   |
| PC Gamer (US) | 91% |
| CU Amiga | 95% |
| Amiga Format | 94% |
| Amiga Power | 86% |
| Awards | |
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| Publication | Award |
| PC Gamer | Best Dialogue |
| Golden Joystick Awards | Best Adventure |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 85% |
| Metacritic | 82/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| IGN | 8.5/10 |
| Pocket Gamer | 8/10 |
| Slide to Play | 4/4 |
Beneath a Steel Sky is a 1994 cyberpunk science-fiction point-and-click adventure game developed by Revolution Software and published by Virgin Interactive for MS-DOS and Amiga home computers. The game was made available as freeware for PC platforms in 2003. 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. After many years, armed security officers arrive, killing the locals and taking Robert back to Union City. He escapes and soon uncovers the corruption which lies at the heart of society.
Originally titled Underworld, the game was a collaboration between game director Charles Cecil and comic book artist Dave Gibbons, and cost £40,000 to make. Cecil was a fan of Gibbons's work and approached with the idea of a video game. The game has a serious tone, but features humour-filled dialogue, which came as a result of Cecil's and writer Dave Cummins's goal to find a middle ground between the earnestness of Sierra's and the slapstick comedy of LucasArts' adventure games. It was built using Revolution's Virtual Theatre engine, first used in Revolution's previous and debut release, 1992's Lure of the Temptress.
It received extremely positive reviews at the time of its release and is retrospectively viewed as a cult classic and Revolution's greatest game besides Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars. A remastered edition was released for iOS in 2009 (as Beneath a Steel Sky Remastered), which also received a positive reception from the gaming press. A sequel was greenlit during the Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse 2012 Kickstarter campaign, but its development has yet to be confirmed.
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