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Beneath a Steel Sky

Untested nobody has played it on Walnut yet

Revolution Software's 1994 cyberpunk adventure: Robert Foster and his robot Joey find out who runs the city that kidnapped him. The CD version with speech, free to download.

Genre
adventure point-and-click
Theme
sci-fi
Players
single player
Input
supports gamepad made for keyboard and mouse
View
2D
Engine
ScummVM

How it's built, patched and set up for its played test; it runs on the ScummVM engine. The numbers are under Test runs.

Beneath a Steel Sky runs on ScummVM with the free CD version Debian packages (with speech), installed by Walnut Games; the menu entry starts the game directly, fullscreen with the picture between bars. A first run on the PS3 started its intro with the sound playing. Nobody has played a session of it on Walnut yet.

Status

Untested: nobody has played a session of it on Walnut yet. Runs on ScummVM (the engine, Debian’s package).

First run 2026-10-19 (batch 2026-10-19-ssdroot3-smoke-new, ScummVM 2026.1.0): the intro, the sound running (20 underruns; the mic heard it 12 dB over the room), 85 MB peak RSS. Escape never reached the window then (the recipe’s keys missed SDL’s window names until 2026-10-28), so the run stayed in the intro. Not run since: its package wasn’t installed in the 2026-10-29 runs. The package is the CD version with speech, all its languages in sky.dsk; the launcher plays the English one.

How it is set up

  • Data: Debian’s beneath-a-steel-sky, installed with ScummVM by Walnut Games, in /usr/share/scummvm/beneath-a-steel-sky.
  • Launcher (desktop/launchers): scummvm -c ~/.config/scummvm/walnut/sky.ini -i /usr/share/ps3-games/scummvm/sky.ini -p /usr/share/scummvm/beneath-a-steel-sky sky through ps3-game, shown once the data is installed (X-Walnut-Requires=); the package’s own menu entry is diverted (the engine’s notes).
  • Settings: the initial config sky.ini; the player’s settings then live in ~/.config/scummvm/walnut/sky.ini, the saves in ~/.local/share/scummvm/saves/SKY-VM.* (set aside by a played session: rating/test.toml).

Build

Packagesscummvm, beneath-a-steel-sky
Suitein the game suite (known to run with its sound), free data
Game datacomes with the packages
Diverted/usr/share/applications/beneath-a-steel-sky.desktop (our launchers stand for them)

Our source packages

None: the game runs from Debian's packages as they are.

Played test

What a played session sets up (rating/test.toml); the medal comes from these sessions only.

Processscummvm
Set aside~/.config/scummvm/walnut/sky.ini, ~/.local/share/scummvm/saves/SKY-VM.* (the game starts on fresh defaults)