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Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) cover art

Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)

Revolution Software Ltd · 2020-07-27

SteamGOG

AdventureIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: 1994 (Amiga CD32), Oct 20, 2011 (Linux), Oct 25, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 21, 2011 (Mac), Oct 07, 2009 (iOS), Mar 1994 (Amiga)

After being abducted by brutal soldiers and his kinfolk butchered, Robert Foster finds himself in Union City - a vast metropolis under the tyranny of a fascist AI. Alone, save for the circuit board of his best friend, Foster must discover the sinister truth - and why they specifically came for him.

1
playing now
89%
positive of 593 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
IGDB user rating (108 ratings)
7.6h
to beat · completionist 5h
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Beneath a Steel Sky is a 1994 point-and-click adventure game developed by British developer Revolution Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for MS-DOS and Amiga home computers. It was made available as freeware – and with the source code released – for PC platforms in 2003. Set in a dystopian cyberpunk 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.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 55 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Current store prices

GOG$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 47 of 47 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$0.00$0.002015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $0.002026-08-29 — best price $0.002026-08-31 — best price $0.002026-09-02 — best price $0.002026-09-04 — best price $0.002026-09-06 — best price $0.002026-09-08 — best price $0.002026-09-10 — best price $0.002026-09-12 — best price $0.002026-09-14 — best price $0.002026-09-16 — best price $0.002026-09-18 — best price $0.002026-09-20 — best price $0.002026-09-22 — best price $0.002026-09-24 — best price $0.002026-09-26 — best price $0.002026-09-28 — best price $0.002026-09-30 — best price $0.002026-10-02 — best price $0.002026-10-04 — best price $0.002026-10-06 — best price $0.002026-10-08 — best price $0.002026-10-10 — best price $0.002026-10-12 — best price $0.002026-10-14 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

2DRetroPuzzleSci-fiHackingAdventureCyberpunkNarrationDystopian Story Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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