Just walking around and exploring Union City is actually kind of fun. The world feels alive with the residents of the city go about their daily routines, skyscrapers tower over you, robots fly/scurry about doing whatever robots do and more. The graphics here are kind of cell-shaded and certainly do look nice. When you do get inside, Union City really is a wonderful place to be in. This is your basic adventure game stuff and solving the many puzzles the game throws at you (while weeding out red herrings) soon becomes second nature. Talk to a few folk, pick up items, use said items and so on.

Your first major task in Beyond a Steel Sky is to gain entrance to Union City. If you have played any modern adventure game, say the many Telltale Games… games, then you’ll know what to expect here. Now, everything is in glorious 3D and you solve the various puzzles in the game using a simple conversation wheel and inventory system. The old, very nineties, 2D point n’ click adventure look and style is gone. So strictly speaking, you really don’t have to have played through Beneath a Steel Sky to know what this one is all about but if you want o get the most out of the references, you really should (it is free don’t forget).

Thankfully, Beyond a Steel Sky gets you up to speed with the main events of the last game through various little references. What’s not to love? But this City has a dark underbelly…įor those who do remember the original game from 1994, you are playing as Robert Foster once more and have to return to Union City a decade after the events of the first game. Union City is a utopia, its people loving life under the control of an altruistic AI: ever-attentive androids, designer living, piazzas and bars. The trail has led you to Union City, one of the last remaining mega-cities in a world ravaged by shattering wars, and political meltdown. A child has been abducted in a brutal attack.

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