The game takes place in a post-nuclear world, divided in an outside – the Gap – and an inside – a hierarchical city. However, I felt even sorrier for those who did not get their hands on a copy of Beneath a Steel Sky. Don’t get me wrong: I felt sorry for those rabbits. Of course back then, in The Netherlands, all we got from our English reading list was Watership Down. With references to Nietzsche, Huxley and Orwell, BASS came packed with intelligence, leaving us disconcerted by… hiatuses of thought. Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) belongs to the latter category. Adventure games presented me with both worlds of magic (far, far away), as well as dystopian, grim representations of OUR world. Most of these entailed the creation of those fictitious worlds that sucked me in. Fifteen years ago, I was 15 years old, ambitious and filled with dreams.
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