While Revolution Software’s cult-classic adventure game Beneath a Steel Sky originally launched all the way back in 1994, it feels like it’s been just about as long that we’ve been waiting for a sequel. The developers behind the game have hinted at a sequel here and there over the years, but it wasn’t until Revolution was crowdfunding a sequel to one of their other revered adventure game series that it actually became a reality. A Beneath the Steel Sky sequel was one of the stretch goals during the Broken Sword 5 crowdfunding campaign, and although they came up short of that stretch goal, Revolution was encouraged by the enthusiasm the fans showed so they committed to making that sequel happen anyway.
Of course this was all way back in 2012, and there wasn’t a whole lot of news about that sequel in the time since. It wasn’t until Apple debuted their Apple Arcade service that the sequel, titled Beyond a Steel Sky, was actually confirmed and would be debuting on the new service. But when" Nobody really had an answer for that one either, but when a brand new story trailer was revealed earlier this month, it seemed like an indicator that Beyond a Steel Sky was very close to releasing. That turned out to be the case as the game has just gone live in the Apple Arcade section of the App Store alongside this new launch trailer.
Beyond a Steel Sky brings back the two designers of the original, Charles Cecil and David Gibbons, and once...