If you know that routine, you’ll also know what happens next. Talk to everyone you can see, pick up anything not nailed down, then try and figure out which fresh piece of information combines with which newly acquired trinket to trigger the next piece of plot. What ensues will be immediately familiar to lightly greying fans of the genre.

Your first conundrum is how to get into the city in the first place, as you find yourself locked outside one of its gates with no way of even raising the bridge to get in, let alone finding a vehicle to drive across it. Taking place 10 years after the events of the first game, you start by heading straight back to Union City, the setting for the original’s brightly coloured cyberpunk romp, only this time you’re on the trail of the kidnappers. And to give you an impression of just how long ago that was, it was originally released for Windows, Amiga, and the dear old abortive CD32. Its serious themes heavyweight comic book talent, in the shape of Watchmen’s Dave Gibbons and its script’s general silliness were clearly part of that zeitgeist. In those days pacing wasn’t too important, whereas irreverent characters, a colourful art style, and sassy dialogue were absolutely central.Īgainst that backdrop, 1994’s Beneath A Steel Sky was a perfect fit. The Secret Of Monkey Island and its sequels, Indiana Jones And The Fate of Atlantis, Day Of the Tentacle, and Broken Sword all shared an interface, a sense of humour, a problem solving attitude, and an era.

Nobody knew it at the time, but 1990 was the start of the peak decade for point ‘n’ click adventures. Beyond A Steel Sky – winner of this month’s Most Belated Sequel award (pic: Revolution Software)ĩ0s point ‘n’ click adventure Beneath A Steel Sky gets a very belated sequel from Revolution Software and Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons.

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