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Beyond a Steel Sky
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.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “Logical puzzles and helpful hints” (36 of 90 reviews) and “Engaging, thoughtful science-fiction narrative” (30); the most common complaint is “Repetitive or unintuitive puzzle mechanics” (8). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
36 of the 90 reviews raise this.
30 of the 90 reviews raise this.
26 of the 90 reviews raise this.
10 of the 90 reviews raise this.
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Masterpiece ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry…”
6 of the 90 reviews raise this.
“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ Beautiful 🗹 Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don't look too long at it ---{ Gameplay }--- 🗹 Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Very good 🗹 Good ☐ Not too…”
8 of the 90 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Tough review to write, I know it's Charles Cecile from revolution software behind it, the legend that gave us broken sword, but the story in "Beyond a steel sky" is not enough captivating for me. It's a point and klick…”
6 of the 90 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Game was fun, gameplay was ok, but HATED the story with missing kids and that adult guy had kids friend and he went to look for it, imature and idiotic. They could go for more dark and mature story about AI control,…”
“Tough review to write, I know it's Charles Cecile from revolution software behind it, the legend that gave us broken sword, but the story in "Beyond a steel sky" is not enough captivating for me. It's a point and klick…”
“I really, really wanted to like this game. First of all: The artstyle and graphics are actually quite alright (if you like the visuals of games like borderlands, you will like this one), and some of the hacking…”
6 of the 90 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
5 of the 90 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“I liked the story, visuals, characters, and worldbuilding, but I felt the puzzles were incredibly unintuitive, and there was no auto sprint option, and the developers commentary cuts out when you get too far away means…”
4 of the 90 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
Counted across 90 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 87.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“Beyond a Steel Sky is a modernized sequel to Beneath a Steel Sky, I found it thoroughly enjoyable and knocked out my first run the weekend after I bought it. Gameplay I don't usually play adventure games, so I don't think I'm going to be the best person to judge the gameplay.…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“Like this game very much. Has a distinctive art style, a well curated game mechanism, wonderful voice acting, and a overall compelling, coherent story. With the help of a build-in hints system the game guides you through the whole process, removing the drudgery of having to…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“First of all this is a sequel to the game called Beneath a Steel Sky from 1994 which you can grab it for free right here on Steam. Also from my little googling around there was a remaster of it in 2009, but apparently that was only for iPod and iPhones. Hopefully the devs will…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-21.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Adventure · Point & Click · Cyberpunk · Indie · Action · Sci-fi · Story Rich · Singleplayer · Choices Matter · Dystopian · Puzzle · Third Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Commentary available · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian, German * , Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Dutch, Arabic, Polish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 32 |
| Official site | https://revolution.co.uk/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1GHz) or AMD Phenom X4 945 (3.0GHz) Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770 2GB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 20 GB available space Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system