Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)

A lot of non-intelligent systems make this game an awful experience. Especially this pseudo-file "Interface" which doesn't teach you to use encryption or decryption methods properly. Can't ever advise BSS anybody, because it just keeps you bored and feel sick of these puzzles. Introduction is whole boredom as you see. Yeah, it tells some backstory - but in more unreliable way. Honestly I didn't done more in this game: I just can't get through fictional prism, ideas that authors were trying to drive to my head.

Sorry to say it doesn't run with W7. Tried to run it under the compatibility settings but that also failed. Do you have any adventure games that work with W7? The rating is fake because it's required I put something there.

I actually played this all of the way through because I didn't have much else that would run on this old computer. I had to use a walkthrough several times because the way to proceed was often pretty unintuitive. There are some funny moments and pleasant surprises, like the pixelated nudity, but overall, this was a chore to slog through. Getting stuck over and over was not fun. Two stars only because I laughed a few times.

I just couldn't get into this game. The graphics were too dated, and I just could not get interested in the story. I'm sure it wasn't bad for its time, but even so I recall playing games at this time period that I thought were much better.

While the witty dialog somewhat saves this game, overall the game is giant headache. Not because I wasn't able to solve the puzzles but a mixture of 8bit music that is repetitive and also because some events that should happen in the game do not happen causing the player to be stuck without continuing on any further.