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Beyond a Steel Sky

Revolution Software Ltd · 2020-07-16

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ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 30, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Dec 07, 2021 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 14, 2021 (Xbox One), Dec 14, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 30, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Jul 16, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.

2
playing now
88%
positive of 1.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (25 ratings)
10h
to beat · rushed 8h · completionist 12h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$34.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Beyond a Steel Sky is a 2020 adventure video game developed and published by Revolution Software. Set ten years after the events of the 1994 video game Beneath a Steel Sky, players assume the role of Robert Foster as he finds himself returning to Union City on the hunt for a kidnapped child, only to learn that the city's new utopia state is not what it appears to be. The game's design utilized the Unreal Engine 4, focusing on cel-shaded 3D graphics, including comic book-styled text boxes.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 28% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 33k–74k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,650 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$2.99-85%
GOG$6.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$6.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.49 at GOG (2025-05-30) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $34.99 · on sale 38 of 72 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1402026-08-07 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 8 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-19 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-22 05:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 7 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$34.99$5.242020-07-162026-08-302020-07-16 — best price $25.692020-09-11 — best price $27.992020-12-08 — best price $34.992021-01-10 — best price $34.992021-02-08 — best price $34.992021-03-09 — best price $34.992021-04-15 — best price $31.382021-05-24 — best price $31.382021-07-09 — best price $19.242021-10-04 — best price $34.992021-11-22 — best price $16.782022-01-07 — best price $31.382022-03-23 — best price $26.812022-05-20 — best price $34.992022-07-10 — best price $34.992022-08-17 — best price $31.382022-10-23 — best price $34.992022-12-02 — best price $34.992023-01-11 — best price $28.612023-02-22 — best price $31.382023-04-17 — best price $9.872023-06-11 — best price $11.892023-07-31 — best price $26.812023-11-09 — best price $34.992024-01-06 — best price $31.382024-03-02 — best price $26.812024-04-19 — best price $26.812024-06-07 — best price $26.812024-08-03 — best price $25.712024-09-14 — best price $29.742024-11-27 — best price $6.992025-02-13 — best price $6.992025-05-11 — best price $34.992025-07-11 — best price $31.382025-09-22 — best price $31.382026-01-23 — best price $34.992026-04-13 — best price $5.772026-06-25 — best price $6.992026-08-29 — best price $6.992026-08-30 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

123292026-05-30 — 57 pageviews2026-06-02 — 62 pageviews2026-06-05 — 61 pageviews2026-06-08 — 65 pageviews2026-06-11 — 66 pageviews2026-06-14 — 83 pageviews2026-06-17 — 34 pageviews2026-06-20 — 43 pageviews2026-06-23 — 35 pageviews2026-06-26 — 49 pageviews2026-06-29 — 57 pageviews2026-07-02 — 63 pageviews2026-07-05 — 63 pageviews2026-07-08 — 47 pageviews2026-07-11 — 61 pageviews2026-07-14 — 57 pageviews2026-07-17 — 29 pageviews2026-07-20 — 48 pageviews2026-07-23 — 65 pageviews2026-07-26 — 80 pageviews2026-07-29 — 65 pageviews2026-08-01 — 55 pageviews2026-08-04 — 62 pageviews2026-08-07 — 60 pageviews2026-08-10 — 69 pageviews2026-08-13 — 87 pageviews2026-08-16 — 65 pageviews2026-08-19 — 67 pageviews2026-08-22 — 72 pageviews2026-08-25 — 117 pageviews2026-08-27 — 60 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

32
achievements tracked
65.3%
earned "Your Lessons Are Over"
28.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudCommentary availableFamily Sharing2 DLC

14 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,49711%32
PS5 (PlayStation)1,05541%33
Xbox One (Xbox)71917%32
PS4 (PlayStation)31446%33
Switch (Nintendo)200%0
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieActionPuzzleSci-fiHackingMysteryAdventureCyberpunkDystopian Story Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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