Beneath a Steel Sky (1994)

The trouble with Beneath a Steel Sky is that it feels like a patchwork of fragments from different good adventure games, which fit together poorly to make a playable but inconsistently enjoyable game. You've got death sequences...but not enough of them for there to be any reliable sense of consequence to your actions. The overall feel of the game is generally fairly serious, with some especially dark moments, yet there are out-of-the-blue moments of goofball comedy that are completely incongruous with the rest of the game. The challenge factor of the puzzles fluctuates wildly; sometimes the puzzles are intuitive and downright easy, while other times it won't even be apparent that there's a puzzle at all. If you're up for an adventure game featuring a dystopian cyberpunk society with a complex storyline, BASS is at least worth a look. It's just difficult to recommend the game with any real enthusiasm because of how disruptive the inconsistencies are.

The core of this game is a relatively routine adventure game with its share of fun, if illogical puzzles that often get solved only because the options at any point are so restricted. But that's really not important because the characters are all so real. Every person has an interesting story (even those that won't tell it to you have an interesting spark to them). The voice acting is top-notch, too. The artwork and the feel of the world is really great, although it would have been nice to see something a touch more expansive. I'd rate it higher but I do feel the gameplay could have been better and it is possible to run into a bug (as I did). The game's not super tough to blow through if you need to restart. Just don't do that the first time or you'll miss out on the best part of it.

It wont take you long to complete but it's great. The story is amazing and the humour is spot on. Takes me back to the good old days of gaming...

I only now discovered this game through GOG and it's fantastic. The atmosphere and humor is great and even tho the game is from 1994 it really stood the test of time. I'll give it 4/5 but judging as if it came out today. If I played it back in the day I'd easily give it 5/5

I honestly went to this one blind, thinking "oh god another Point and click?" But to my surprise, BASS Delivered some interesting story! Im not done with it yet, but I can say I WILL finish it before I die.