Beneath a Steel Sky

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Key points

Officially available as freeware.

Can easily be run on modern systems with ScummVM.

General information

Game Nostalgia - Detailed game information, developer interviews and game-related media

Soundtrack Enhancement Page

GOG.com Community Discussions

GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Available on floppy disk (manual-based copy protection) or CD (no DRM). The CD-ROM version has full voice acting and a substantial introduction sequence.
GOG.com		Pre-packaged with ScummVM.

All of the prepackaged versions use the CD release.

The data files are available for free from the ScummVM website.

Essential improvements

Running the game through ScummVM

Just use the prepackaged versions if you want the CD release.

Playing the game with ScummVM^{[citation needed]}
Download the floppy or CD data files off ScummVM's download page Extract it into an empty folder Open ScummVM and select `Add Game` Select the folder you just added the data files to.

James Woodcock's remastered soundtrack

Original game soundtrack in MIDI format, rearranged and re-recorded using modern studio equipment

Requires ScummVM

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\config.dat
Windows	<path-to-game>\beneath.ini^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Linux

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\
Windows	<path-to-game>\SKY-VM.***^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)
Linux

DOS savegames are labelled SKY.???, where ??? represents a number between 000 and 999. Savegame descriptions are stored in SKY.SAV.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy		Requires `Internal Update (25 April 2018)` or later.

Video settings

300px

In-game menu (F5)

300px

ScummVM settings.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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This game supports the MT-32 and General MIDI for music.

While this game has very few native settings, it runs on ScummVM which adds some additional settings.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Speech in CD version only.
French
German
Italian
Polish				Fan translation, download.
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	VGA	320x200

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)	386
System memory (RAM)	2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10 MB (floppy) 93 MB (CD)
Video card (GPU)	VGA

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.6.8 or later
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core Duo 2 GHz+
System memory (RAM)	1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	78 MB
Video card (GPU)	64 MB of VRAM

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

↑ Free games: Beneath a Steel Sky and Lure of the Temptress - GOG.com

[gamedir-2] 1.0 ^1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[1] Free games: Beneath a Steel Sky and Lure of the Temptress - GOG.com

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[Note 1]

Developers

	Revolution Software
Publishers
	Virgin Interactive
Engines
	Virtual Theatre
Release dates
DOS	March 1994
Windows	December 18, 2008^[1]
macOS (OS X)	December 21, 2011
Linux	December 21, 2011