It was built using Revolution's Virtual Theatre engine, first used in Revolution's previous and debut release, 1992's Lure of the Temptress. The game has a serious tone, but features humour-filled dialogue, which came as a result of Cecil's and writer Dave Cummins's goal to find a middle ground between the earnestness of Sierra's and the slapstick comedy of LucasArts's adventure games. Cecil was a fan of Gibbons's work and approached with the idea of a video game. Originally titled Underworld, the game was a collaboration between game director Charles Cecil and comic book artist Dave Gibbons, and cost £40,000 to make. He escapes and soon uncovers the corruption which lies at the heart of society. After many years, armed security officers arrive, killing the locals and taking Robert back to Union City. Set in a dystopian future, the player assumes the role of Robert Foster, who was stranded in a wasteland known as 'the Gap' as a child and adopted by a group of local Aboriginals, gradually adjusting to his life in the wilderness. The game was made available as freeware – and with the source code released – for PC platforms in 2003.

Beneath a Steel Sky is a 1994 cyberpunk science fiction point-and-click adventure game developed by British developer Revolution Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for MS-DOS and Amiga home computers.

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