Beyond a Steel Sky

Bethesda level of bugs in this game. A short list of what I came across 1 - I had a programming tag disappear (you do a kind of baby level programming in this game), so my holograms were gone. 2 - Two prompts are switched so clicking on the center object takes you to the left one and vice versa. 3 - After switching a few tags in the piazza the game had enough and didn't let me click on anything anymore. Needed to reload a previous game. 4 - After an NPC tried to walk through a door at the same time as me I was stuck in a wall 5 - Had an NPC walk through a locked door (the devs only accounted for the door stopping NPC's going out, but not going in) 6 - Characters respond to dialogue before you had the conversation with them 7 - The devs didn't account for anyone clicking on things in any other order than what they decided. for example: during a quest at your appartment you need to read a piece of information, but if you read it earlier in the game, your character completely forgot about it. Another example: When you look at the museum exhibits your character seems to be deaf and blind since the achievement only pops when you do it a second time when your companion is with you. 8 - A…

If you like story-heavy plays, this is the one for you. Follow the path of a savior--whether that's you or your friend--and save your village kids. It's all about finding out what happened to whom, and how, and where to go to get these information. You get a nifty scanner that you can further implement into helping you with your journey. What it personally reminds me of is the Big Brother regime of the old tale 1984, in some areas. Set in the future, however, so that makes for a whole lot of interesting world aspects once you reach the city. Without spoiling too much, at the end of it all: it calls for a wholesome time.

I understand why game director Charles Cecil calls Beyond a Steel Sky a spiritual successor to Beneath a Steel Sky and Dave Gibbons (art director on both) calls it a sequel. This distinction is one of the reasons why I rate Beyond a Steel Sky as a very good game instead of a masterpiece. Let me explain: (spoilers so be aware) Beneath a Steel Sky came out in 1994 and it took roughly a quarter of a century for a follow up to appear on the somewhat ominous looking horizon. Because in that time a total new generation of gamers has spawned that has never heard of Beneath a Steel Sky. It was partially remastered for the iPhone back in 2009 (animated comic and enhanced sound), but had no introduction to console players. So bringing out a direct sequel (as that's what it is as the characters and events are identical and the story is continuous) for console players too, would mean that newcomers have to play the original to really understand the sequel. And that's the thing, you can't force them. So you have to bring them up to speed of what happened by incorporating elements into the game-world, like a museum that explains bits by breaking the 4th wall showing actual screenshots from the f…

Adventure gaming at its finest.

More people need to play this game!!! This game is beyond hilarious It's fully voice acted which is a surprise since there are so many games that don't even go to this level They got great voice actors too I played entirely on controller and it worked great

I quite enjoyed the story, worldbuilding, and puzzles. My first playthrough ran about 9~ hours and my second about 3. The characters were enjoyable and unique. The eyes on Oriana freaked me out a bit in cutscenes but nothing I cant get over. Fairly simple 100% only one set of 5 collectables, no parkour, no combat, but the M.I.N.O.S. hacking was fun to mess with. It was like the old scratch coding logic games. I very much want to play Beneath A Steel Sky now to understand some lore and story better, not necessary to enjoy the game however. Picked it up for 5 bucks I think, worth it!