Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
It's free to play.
- Story and characters: 146 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 48 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 30 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 581 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
You navigate the world by clicking to interact with objects, talking to characters, and solving puzzles to progress.
The city’s oppressive atmosphere is captured perfectly through its visuals, designed by Dave Gibbons, co-creator of Watchmen.
The sound design also deserves praise.
It’s the kind of gameplay that rewards patience and curiosity, even if you occasionally feel stuck.
Beneath a Steel Sky is a point and click adventure games that uses a conversation system where you ask people different questions and find and use items by viewing your inventory when you hover over the top of the screen.
Great flow and good difficulty balance.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No themes split opinion in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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