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25 Years Later, Dystopic Adventure Game ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’ Appears
Old-school adventure gamers remember Revolution Software’s dystopian cyberpunk game Beneath a Steel Sky. As with many games that were critically acclaimed, it didn’t sell all that well (despite the early-to-mid 90s being the pinnacle for point-and-click adventure games).
Nonetheless, Revolution Software (which also handled the fantastic Broken Sword series) have announced the sequel in Beyond a Steel Sky. Unlike the first game, which used the traditional pixel-based graphics, Beyond a Steel Sky will feature “comic-book-styled” graphics by award-winning comics artist Dave Gibbons, who also provided the background art for Beneath a Steel Sky.
And like the first game, Beyond will have a vein of humor in its dialogue against the dystopic world that Beneath a Steel Sky designer and Revolution Software founder and CEO Charles Cecil states will be a “modern day 1984“.
Beyond a Steel Sky is expected to be out later this year for PC and the recently-announced Apple Arcade. If you haven’t played Beneath a Steel Sky yet (and you have no reason NOT to), you can get it for free from GOG.com.
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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