After a brutal abduction wipes out his wasteland village, Robert Foster survives a helicopter crash with only the circuit board of his childhood AI companion, Joey. Revived together, they arrive in Union City, a cyberpunk realm of towering blocks where oppressed workers toil under a fascist AI regime, while the elite hide below from pollution. Foster and Joey navigate this hostile world to uncover the motives behind his targeting and halt the looming evil.
This gripping point-and-click adventure employs Revolution Software's Virtual Theatre system for cyberpunk science fiction storytelling. Players guide Foster through man-versus-man, man-versus-machine, and man-versus-time challenges in Union City. It draws fans of classic indie point-and-click adventures.
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 ā 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, mankindās 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 itās too late. Itās a terrifying threat that only you can liberateā¦ 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.
