Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)

Maybe that's the game will look to short (even if quests aren't so easy), but the plot is great and the atmosphere fascinating.

ive always loved point'n'click games and this is just as great as any other point'n'click.. but the voices are a nice touch and its free so plz DL at once!

I know. A lot of good reviews on here for this game, how could someone give 2 stars for this masterpiece, right? The game does look good and it has everything your run of the mill adventure point and click game has in it. Puzzles, dialog, plot, and nice voice acting. However this has to be one of the most boring games I have ever played, and it takes a lot to make me not like adventure games. The puzzles are mind numbing at times seeing there are rarely clues as to what you need to solve them. There can be a lot of back tracking and reloading when you get stuck. Often I would be stuck and then it would hit me, "Oh...I forgot to do that thing!" and then lo and behold that wasn't the thing I needed, and I was once again stuck wondering what the heck I was supposed to do. The dialog wasn't very interesting, nor was the plot. After finally passing it all I could think was, "Wow, did I actually play this entire game?" If you get it for free, I guess it's worth trying out, but even for 5 cents this game would not be worth a second. Too many mind numbing, frustrating, and bizarre puzzles and storyline that has little direction and fails to motivate the player to keep going. That's my 2 cents, which sadly, is worth more than this game should ever be worth. It's free for a reason, because nobody wants to play it.

Good overal atmosphere. The few music tracks get repetitive especially since there's a lot of backtracking while you're trying to figure things out. I often felt adrift, that the game hadn't clearly laid out the goal I was trying to achieve.

A solid entry from the past. The game has some nice cyberpunky anti-utopian atmosphere to it. The story is not great not terrible - it gets a bit predictable closer to the end, but it's not bad and you have nice main characters. The puzzles are solvable and logical. For the most part, there were occasions were I had to look up a walkthrough for an answer. The fact that the game world feels huge (which on its own is a good thing) and as you open new locations the old ones are still accessible doesn't make it any easier. Still better than many games of that era (looking at you Monkey Island). And yes, be prepared for some backtracking. The voice acting is good, but the music is a bit repetitive. Then again, the game is old, not sure it's fair to expect more. Same goes for controls and interface. Overall playing it feels like watching Akira. You can see it's old, but at the same time it becomes clear how much of an influence it is for other games that came after. Definitely worth the effort.