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14 Classic Games for Free

Nostalgia is a treacherous beast. Sometimes the brilliant titles from our youth turn out miserable parodies of themselves when we play them after years. Fortunately, you can try many of them for free.

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Beneath a Steel Sky

GENERAL INFORMATION

  1. Genre: adventure
  2. Release date: 1994
  3. Developer: Revolution Software
  4. Available at: GOG

In the 90s adventure games divided and conquered. One of the more interesting titles released in the second half of the decade is Beneath a Steel Sky. It’s a futuristic crime noir story taking place in dystopian Australia. Players assume the role of one Robert Foster - a man raised by the natives from interior. His tribe is killed and he is kidnapped by LINC assault squads and then taken to Union City, a futuristic metropolis.

While on the run, the protagonist discovers the disturbing truth about the world surrounding him. The game was quite large for its time, and it was one of the first productions to ever use the Virtual Theatre system that simulates citizens’ lives - around one hundred characters. Yes, the same system that governed an iconic RPG developed by Piranha Bytes.

HOW WELL DID IT AGE?

Very decent, I must say, provided you’re fine with, oh so typical for those times, not always logical puzzles and a lot of pixels befitting contemporary games.

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Hubert Sosnowski

Hubert Sosnowski

He joined GRYOnline.pl in 2017, as an author of texts about games and movies. He's currently the head of the film department and the Filmomaniak.pl website. Learned how to write articles while working for the Dzika Banda portal. His texts were published on kawerna.pl, film.onet.pl, zwierciadlo.pl, and in the Polish Playboy. Has published stories in the monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror magazine, as well as in the first volume of the Antologii Wolsung. Lives for "middle cinema" and meaty entertainment, but he won't despise any experiment or Fast and Furious. In games, looks for a good story. Loves Baldur's Gate 2, but when he sees Unreal Tournament, Doom, or a good race game, the inner child wakes up. In love with sheds and thrash metal. Since 2012, has been playing and creating live action role-playing, both within the framework of the Bialystok Larp Club Zywia, and commercial ventures in the style of Witcher School.

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