# Beyond a Steel Sky — user reviews

> 427 indexed App Store user reviews of Beyond a Steel Sky by Revolution, rated 4.40/5 from 930 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beyond-a-steel-sky/id1474849377/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beyond-a-steel-sky/id1474849377.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 680 · 4★ 102 · 3★ 42 · 2★ 37 · 1★ 69

## What do users think of Beyond a Steel Sky?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Excellent story and world-building
- 👍 Engaging puzzles and gameplay
- 💎 Memorable characters and dialogue
- 🎨 Beautiful graphics and art style
- 🎶 Impressive soundtrack and voice acting

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🕹️ Clunky and unresponsive controls
- ⏱️ Long loading times between scenes
- 🔍 Difficulty interacting with certain objects

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Game freezes at the Aspiration Gala
- Hacker tool disappears or becomes unusable
- Saved games corrupted or unloadable
- Inability to progress past certain points

**Most requested features**

- Add a skip button for dialogue
- Improve camera controls and movement
- Optimize performance for older devices
- Provide more accessibility options

## Newest reviews (20 of 427)

### 5/5 — No name

*2026-02-08*

Очень интересная игра, сюжет затягивает 👍🏽 после продолжения огромные желание пройти ее на 100% найдя все скрытые достижения. Очень удобно играть через геймпад

### 5/5 — LOVE IT! Like a PS2 game

*2026-02-08, version 1.5.29150*

I love this game! The story, graphics and gameplay feels like a ps2 game. This an morphite are my favor mobile games. I’ve never found a mobile game like this to play. The gameplay and story feels just like it’s a console game. I wish there were more mobile games like this!

### 5/5 — Story

*2026-01-02, version 1.5.29150*

This game has such a great in depth story and good graphics. The mechanics are great too. This game has been my go-to game for the past week.

### 2/5 — Great writing, frustrating gameplay

*2026-01-02, version 1.5.29150*

I was thoroughly enjoying the story, world building, sense of humor, and vibrant comic-inspired art style. Unfortunately, the gameplay has major flaws. 

First, the user interface is fiddly: it can be difficult to maneuver the camera into just the right spot to interact with an item, especially when the target is moving.

Second, in classic point-and-click fashion, many elaborate, tedious steps are needed to accomplish mundane tasks. The last straw was an extended sequence of hacking moving robots to steal a poem, only to find my solution was not the intended solution and wasn’t working for some reason.

These puzzles feel like filler that wastes my time without advancing the story. I’d rather skip to the exciting parts. Future adventure game developers, please take note of what not to do.

### 2/5 — Takes forever to load. Needs an update

*2025-12-30*

This is an amazing game. But it has a major bug where it takes forever to load. I had this on the iPhone 15 Pro Max, 16 Pro Max, 17 Pro Max.  Please fix this

### 5/5 — My Favourite Game Ever

*2025-12-25*

Please make a sequel!!!

### 5/5 — Exceptionnel

*2025-12-20*

Sur iPhone avec manette, jeu exceptionnel👍🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 l’histoire est prenante, les graphismes étonnants, j’ai adoré❤️ bravo et merci aux concepteurs de ce jeu👏🏻🙏🏻

### 5/5 — Great Game!

*2025-12-15*

I love the story and the game play, beautiful music also!

### 5/5 — I need more games like this!

*2025-12-06, version 1.5.29150*

This is what I’ve been looking for! A futuristic Cyber Punk type adventure quest game. We need more!

### 5/5 — Favorite game ever

*2025-11-23, version 1.5.29150*

I love this game! Literally my favorite one so far!

### 5/5 — Apple, dê um prêmio pra esse jogo

*2025-11-19*

Esse jogo devia ganhar um prêmio, muito bom! 
História fantástica, jogabilidade muito interessante, bons gráficos e efeitos! Simplesmente maravilhoso!

### 5/5 — Needs a sequel.

*2025-11-16*

The way the story leads off, there’s totally room for a second game, the cities recovery, the tribes, evolution of the characters, that other city you never get to visit.. I need more of this game!

### 3/5 — Great game - fatal bug

*2025-10-13, version 1.5.29150*

Fantastic, enthralling game with a great storyline. Unfortunately, there was a bug in the old history museum where a terminal wouldn’t rez and that kept the game from progressing at all. Super bummed that I couldn’t finish. Found no support on the website or a known patch.

### 5/5 — “Wallop, jig, pull”

*2025-10-10, version 1.5.29150*

This is more fire then the invention of fire

### 5/5 — 5/5!!

*2025-10-08, version 1.5.29150*

This is one of the best games I’ve ever played on my phone! I hope this has a part 2. The way this game blew my mind is incredibly insane. 10/10 100% will recommend.

### 5/5 — Wonderful Game

*2025-09-11, version 1.5.29150*

I went back and forth on whether to give four or five stars.  Settled on five because it’s a wonderful game.  Immersive, fun, well written….seriously one of the top ten fake I have ever played on an iPhone. 

With respect, I would offer the developers a few respectful critiques:
1.  The dialogue can be slow.  You need a skip button. 
2. The controls are a bit clunky. I know I’m on an iPhone, but it should be a lot easier to run. 
3.  Loading takes forever and a day. 
4.  Actually, that’s it. I’m out of complaints. 

Back to my original point, great game.  Every app has an issues and the ones stated above are just an attempt to communicate suggestions to the developer.

### 5/5 — Великолепная игра!👍

*2025-09-08*

Сюжет затягивает! Адекватная графика. Управление тоже адекватное. Классные механики. Ещё бы Русская озвучка была и вообще топ! Но есть читаемые субтитры. А читать придётся много, если хочешь прям вникнуть. Я получил большое удовольствие от прохождения! Спасибо причастным за крутую мобильную игру!

### 2/5 — 素晴らしい

*2025-09-02*

おもしろかった。記憶消して何度もやりたい。

### 5/5 — Suchtpotenzial 100%

*2025-08-21*

Ein schönes Spiel mit zum Teil sehr anspruchsvollen Aufgaben. Ein tolles Spiel mit schöner Grafik spannender Story und super coolen Charakteren und zum Teil sehr lustigen Dialogen. Dieses Spiel lässt einen über unsere Zukunft mit Ki nachdenken. Vielen lieben Dank an die Entwickler und das gesamte Team. Bitte bringt noch ein Teil raus, möchte wissen, was aus der Stadt geworden ist.

### 5/5 — Имба

*2025-07-31*

Нереально круто сделано, без лишних слов рекомендую всем поиграть и прочувствовать это творение, единственное хотелось бы 60фпс если это возможно, а так вообще ноль минусов

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Waste of time

*2025-06-14*

Can’t get beyond the first round … help/hints useless

### 1/5 — Got bored waiting for it to load

*2025-03-13*

The game is decent with puzzles to solve at every turn, but on iPad Pro M4, it takes so long to load the next chapter, wherever you are in the game, it becomes unplayable because of all the waiting. I actually cooked and ate dinner while waiting, and when I came back it still hadn’t loaded. Just not worth the wait

### 1/5 — Boring intro

*2024-07-17*

Boring intro and I could not for the life of me figure out how to select the pie to try and get the birds off the body within the first minute of the game.

### 1/5 — Controls freeze!

*2024-05-14, version 1.5.29150*

Made it nearly to the end and the controls always freeze in a certain spot. I’ve tried troubleshooting and am so frustrated I’m canceling my subscription to the arcade. Save yourself some frustration and skip this one until they work out their glitchy game.

### 1/5 — Game froze where I couldn’t finish it

*2024-04-20, version 1.5.29150*

Was a really fun game and enjoyed the story it’s what I look for in games in the App Store but I made it to the end of the game and could tell I was reaching the end until it froze and I’ve tried to delete the app and redownload it thinking it would fix it but a month later getting back on it after it froze and it freezes the exact same place

### 1/5 — So slow!!!

*2023-12-24, version 1.5.29150*

I gave up! You do one thing and then have to wait 5 minutes for the next section to load. Boring.

### 1/5 — Nowhere near the hype

*2023-05-08, version 1.5.29150*

Reading other reviews, I was excited to try this on Apple Arcade. However, I was left pretty disappointed.

1) Super touchy camera pan, slow character movement:
If you’re used to twitch-type games like Unreal Tournament, you might find the camera pan familiar. Now combine that with a turtle moseying along, when when running.

2) Frustratingly slow object interaction:
Significant delays between interacting with objects and regaining control of your character (in the very beginning there is a body and some birds, if you interact with either, it takes about 5-7 seconds AFTER the interaction is complete before you can control your character again).

3) Difficulty in being able to target the correct object to interact with:
Same situation as above, game repeatedly tried to interact with the body instead of the birds.

4) Loading times:
Sat there for about 5 minutes waiting for the game to load after the aforementioned body/birds segment. 

Overall, it looks shiny, but past that it really feels like an ambitious attempt that simply doesn’t hit anywhere near the mark.

### 1/5 — Stuck in a corner by the furnace

*2023-03-29, version 1.5.29150*

Was really enjoying this game but I walked down the side of the furnace in the industrial zone and now I can’t get out! As others have had similar problems and having already sunk about 6 hours into the game I think I’ll delete rather than start over. Shame, could have been a 5 star review.

### 1/5 — No gameplay

*2023-02-19*

I spent 10 minutes watching animations and finally got to walk for 10 seconds just to watch another animation. Lost interest because I wanted to play a game and not watch a cartoon.

### 1/5 — Can’t even start the game

*2022-10-30, version 1.5.29150*

Just signed up for Apple Arcade, downloaded this game, launched it and can’t even press a single button. Doesn’t load. Terrible. This is a iPhone 14 pro max

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — 정말 재밌어요

*2026-08-10*

귀찮아서 왠만해선 이런 후기 안쓰는데 써요… 진짜 딱 이런 게임을 찾고 있었는데 다 하나같이 맘에 안들어서 하루 이틀 해보다가 삭제엔딩이었는데 이거는 조작감이 개 구려도 스토리가 너무 흥미진진해서 끝까지 하게 되더라구요! 난이도도 어렵지 않고요 ㅎㅎ 플레이시간 보니 깨는데에 거의 11시간 반정도 걸렸나봐요. 다른 시리즈도 제작해주세요!!!! 너무 재밌네요 ㅠㅠ

### 5/5 — Beyond expectations.

*2026-07-28, version 1.5.29150*

This game is fantastic. The perfect mix of retro and futuristic, so cinematic it’s like controlling a movie, and a genuinely great story. Don’t listen to the bad reviews.

### 5/5 — Enjoyable

*2026-07-08, version 1.5.29150*

It’s a real game on Apple Arcade!  No ads or requests freemium features! 🥹

### 5/5 — Fantastische Grafik & gute Story

*2026-06-20*

Das Spiel überzeugt mit hervorragender Grafik und super Steuerung. Die Geschichte ist wirklich gut, Rätsel sind nicht langweilig aber auch nicht zu kompliziert und die Charakterentwicklung sehr treffend. Auch wenn die Entwicklung des Spiels mehr als eine Dekade dauerte, würde ich mir eine zeitnahe Fortsetzung oder Spin-off sehr wünschen. Das Spiel ist eine klare Empfehlung!

### 5/5 — Amazing game

*2026-06-10, version 1.5.29150*

Great story, nice characters, beautiful graphics and a nice gameplay. I could not put this down.

The puzzles are prett streightforward and I haven't gotten stuck anywhere as it's not uncommon with adventure games.

Good don't. Potty it's over.

### 5/5 — Одна из топовых игр на iOS

*2026-06-06*

Хотелось бы еще таких игр

### 5/5 — Best Game Forever

*2026-05-20, version 1.5.29150*

This is the best game for me！！I really like this kind of game, bring us more games like this please!!!!!

### 5/5 — I wish more apps were this good!

*2026-05-15, version 1.5.29150*

This is the best game I’ve ever played on a phone. This felt high quality and more like a console game. 10/10 They knocked it out of the park. There are no other apps that can compare.

### 5/5 — 👍🏻

*2026-02-25*

Хорошая игра заинтересовало сюжетом не любил читать субтитры но тут очень интересно 
И в целом игра по графике не плохая

### 5/5 — Стоит поиграть

*2026-02-22*

Отличная игра на 6-8 часов 😊

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