The comedy isn't enough to turn this into something like the classic LucasArts laughfests or the Deponia series, but it works well.īeyond is a typical point-and-click adventure that's only modified for the current era. The dialogue does a great job of digging up ridiculous dialogue threads, and that is amplified once you get your own robot friend who dispenses snark and humor.
Foster's easygoing attitude goes well with the citizens of this utopia, especially those who heap endless praise at your robot friend, Joey, who has become a god to them, but it works much better against the matter-of-fact robots that populate the place. The other thing you'll like is the humor, which fits with the updated setting. It feels alive, and that's somewhat of a rarity in the adventure game space.
There are bunches of people conversing around the city, and everyone walks around normally. Vowing to rescue him, you follow their tracks until you arrive at Union City to find a palace that looks improved but hides a darkness within.Īlthough the tale is set in the future and you start in a desert, you aren't given the typical postapocalyptic setting where the people in the outskirts are living in squalor and the people in the city are living in utopia. That idyllic existence is interrupted when a vehicle containing two androids kidnap a boy from the village. With Union City in safe hands, you've returned to the city outskirts to live with the villagers and help out when needed. After such a long wait and a brief stop on Apple Arcade, the sequel Beyond A Steel Sky makes it way home to the PC.īeyond is set 10 years after the events of the first game, and you revisit the role of Robert Foster. Unlike many other titles in its time period, the game remained accessible on PC for free via GOG for several years while iOS players recently saw a remake of it. While not exactly a classic like its Sierra and LucasArts contemporaries, it was still a hit and drove developer Revolution Software to create its Broken Sword series.
Like a good number of titles at the time, it was a point-and-click adventure that mixed dystopian sci-fi with smatterings of absurdist humor. Twenty-six years ago marked the release of Beneath A Steel Sky.
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