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Get Beneath A Steel Sky free now.

By on December 18, 2008

Screenshot from Beneath a Steel SkyGood Old Games (www.gog.com) has just announced that you can download Beneath a Steel Sky for free. Completely.

If you haven’t come across Gog.com, it’s a DRM-free portal for downloading high-quality games of yesteryear. Games like Fallout and Fallout 2, Operation Flashpoint and my personal favourite Jagged Alliance 2, all downloadable for less than $9.99.

Good Old Games, brainchild of CD Projekt, the publisher behind The Witcher, believes that consumers will pay for these games, even DRM-free, given their quality and have persuaded a range of publishers of their model. I really hope it works.

And if you haven’t ever played Beneath a Steel Sky, go download it. It’s one of the few point-and-click adventures I ever finished, and it bears all the hallmarks of Charles Cecil, a luminary of the genre. Plus the artwork is by Dave Gibbons, who drew The Watchmen, my favourite graphic novel of all time.

About Nicholas Lovell

Nicholas is the founder of Gamesbrief, a blog dedicated to the business of games. It aims to be informative, authoritative and above all helpful to developers grappling with business strategy. He is the author of a growing list of books about making money in the games industry and other digital media, including How to Publish a Game and Design Rules for Free-to-Play Games, and Penguin-published title The Curve: thecurveonline.com