Beyond is currently sitting on Steam with a "coming soon" release date, and I hope they give themselves plenty of time before locking a firmer date in, because the animation in particular is clearly a work in progress. I should say from the off that this was a very preview-y preview build.
Also, children are being kidnapped from the surrounding desert and smuggled into the city by night. "Wellbeing" sends people round to check on you if you take too many days off work. "Comfort" covers custodial duties, for example. I'm pretty sure even the most technophobic rube, on witnessing Foster telling Joey the robot to just "make everyone happy" before leaving Union City, ostensibly forever, would sagely remark "Ye fucked that up, lad," without even removing the ear of corn from their mouth.Īnd as it turns out, by the time you rock back up again, Joey has apparently disappeared, the citizens praise him like some sort of god, and the city is ruled over by a council of five extremely suspicious people, each responsible for one aspect of life. lengthy, and takes the form of a comic strip). The preamble catches you up on the plot of Beneath and sets up some of Beyond (the preamble is.
That aftermath is pretty predictable, I think. Now, years later, Foster is dealing with the aftermath. The game's traditionally rubbish, genre staple name is actually a hangover from the game to which this is a sequel, Beneath A Steel Sky, where gruff everyman Robert Foster and his AI robot pal Joey freed a city-state from the clutches of its evil AI overlord. I'm not a big one for early previews myself, but having played the demo for Beyond A Steel Sky, the new pointy-clicky 3D adventure game from Revolution Games, I will concede that it was an hour and a half of my time well spent on puzzles and robots and hacking.īeyond A Steel Sky is set in a sort of Mad-Max-meets-cyberpunk dystopian mash-up from Charles "Broken Sword" Cecil, and famous comics artist Dave "Watchmen" Gibbons.
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