Beyond a Steel Sky is an Adventure Game developed by Revolution Software and the sequel to 1994's Beneath a Steel Sky. It was released on June 26, 2020 on the Apple Arcade, with a Steam release on July 16, 2020. The player continues as Robert. Beyond a Steel Sky will is a mobile exclusive on Apple Arcade – while still being available on Steam. Which allows Revolution to cover all the key segments of fans it’s collated over the years. The game can be enjoyed without prior knowledge of Beneath a Steel Sky but obviously, it has a lot of gentle nods to its predecessor. And unlike the original game that felt too short for me at the time, Beyond a Steel Sky has a good length to it with a well over dozen hours to see it through.
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Finding Leet
Make sure to examine the plush toys in Songbird’s bedroom, and then ask Songbird about them
Once you’ve spoken with Songbird, you can activate the Mama Bear on the back shelf
The Mama Bear screen in broken, you can use the Hacker to swap the display of the bear with the Holoplinth in the main room – this will give you a location code of where to find Leet
Once that is done, talk to Chipworth, the robot butler, and have him open the windows
Go into the bathroom and put down the toilet seat, then climb it to find a box taped to the outside of the window
Give the Gang-Gang guarding the window ledge a Mini-K to get rid of him, and then collect the box to find some haunting pictures
Now you’re ready to head outside
Saving Raquel
The girl you met in the lobby is on the building and scared to get down
Talk to the girl, the Welfare Minister, and the arty robot from before – exhaust their dialogue options
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Use your hacker on the robot cleaning up the seal in the lobby, make him clean the building exterior
Next, open up the small box on the right side of the apartment building and get your scanner out when the water dispenser appears
Set it to refill 0% of the water, swapping the flow node from the sprinklers
Once this is done, talk to Raquel and exhaust her dialogue again, this time you’ll recommend she jump on the robot to get down, and she eventually does
Make sure to have a good conversation with her and the others once they’re on the ground again
Once everything is over, the monopod will be running again, and you can head to the Piazza
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You can explore the Piazza, but if you want to progress head over to the Museum of New History
Once inside talk to the bratty teenager being dragged around by her excitable father, you can find out about the Old History section of the museum
Make a deal with the girl – she’ll let you in to the Old History area if you make her father leave
Head over to the Asio City Exhibit, and wait for both the exhibit and the CRY-R robot to get close, once they do, use your Hacker to swap the “Enticingly” node with “Calmly”
Once that is done, put the Enticingly node in Joey’s synethetic arm in the centre of the room
Now you will want to repeat the process, but this time moving the “Aggressively” node from the B0G-BR5H robot which is cleaning the bathroom to Joey’s arm, via the CRY-R robot – you might find this easier to do if you move the node to the Children’s Exhibit first
This will have the father slapped by the synthetic arm, and you can get the brooch from the girl to enter the old history room
The Old History Room
Once inside the Old History Room feel free to look around and explore a bit
You can swap the Joey Speaks robot nodes with the N0IT-AL robot node, and then activate Joey Speaks to speak with, well, Joey himself – you can make the hacker range stretch, but if you scan your hand the N0IT-AL robot should come to you
Once that’s done, speak to the guard at the entrance, exhaust his dialogue
Next, examine the fridge exhibit next to him, and the robot will come over, and the guard will be distracted, once he’s distracted crack the fridge open with a crowbar
That’ll cause enough chaos to kick everyone out of the exhibit aside from yourself, and now you can follow Joey’s suggestion and break the glass holding his chip, and steal it
Crowbar gets a lot of use today – use it to open the panel on the holographic map table, and out the Joey Board into the vacuum robot in the back room
Finally, have Joey interface with the panel on the holographic table, and he’ll help you find the location of Leet
Escaping the museum
We’re nearly there now – get the Barrel Robot manual up on the computer in the Storage Room, and then swap the node with the F4RT robot that’s chasing the rat
Have Joey interface with the port of the barrel robot, and he’ll need more information
Swap the Barrel Robot manual node from F4RT to the Holographic table, and have Joey inspect it
Once that’s all done you’ll be able to use the barrel robot, just use the crowbar on the barrel to open it and get inside
Once outside you’ll be ambushed by Mentor Alonso again, and then you’ll finally be able to leave the museum
Returning to Graham’s apartment and the Aspiration Platform
Return to the apartment via the monopod, and you’ll encounter that pesky poet, Reginald, and he’ll rant before jumping into the monopod himself
Once back inside the apartment head into Graham’s room and put on his cleaning uniform
You’ll find that if you get into the monopod and try to go to the Recycling centre, you’ll need a travel waiver, so head back to the plaza for now
Head to Safety Services just in front of the monopod station and talk to Greta, the AI, about the Recycling centre and travel waiver
Choose Orana as the Wellbeing Officer you wish to speak with, then use the monopod to head to the Aspiration Platform
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Beyond a Steel Sky, the new PC adventure game from Revolution Games is now out on Steam. The game serves as a sequel to the 90’s point and click adventure game Beneath a Steel Sky, and it revitalizes the series after a 26 year-long break.
The first game in the now two-part series, Beneath a Steel Sky, was released back in 1994 on MS-DOS and Amiga as a point and click adventure. It has been so long since its release that players interested in experiencing its deep story can now get their hands on the game for free from sites like GOG, as the game was released as freeware to the public in 2003.
Nevertheless, the sequel, Beyond a Steel Sky is aware of the time that has passed since the first one, setting its story ten years after the events of the first game. Further, while players don’t need to know the story from the first installment to fully enjoy and understand the game, long-time fans will recognize many of the nods and references to the previous adventure that the developers have scattered through the sequel’s story.
Beyond a Steel Sky puts players back in the world that the first game set up. Players will rejoin Robert Foster as he goes back to Union City, a utopic place governed by an AI that wants to keep its residents happy. Although it is soon evident that not everything is as blissful as it initially appears.
The game follows a modern-style adventure concept, with player choices affecting gameplay in a similar fashion to how the now-defunct Telltale Games used to do it. However, it expands on the story and gameplay mechanics with modern elements, showing the evolution that adventure games have gone through since the days of the floppy disk and dial-up internet.
Visually, while pixel graphics are still a popular visual style for games, and the first game relied upon them to show the highly detailed models and environments, Beyond a Steel Sky utilizes a modern comic-book graphic visual art style that works to make the three-dimensional environments seem more vibrant.
Beyond a Steel Sky is available now through Steam with a 20% discount until July 23. A special edition of the game is also available for purchase, and it includes both games in the series, as well as Beyond a Steel Sky’s soundtrack.