Mobile game · 2020

Beyond a Steel Sky

From Charles Cecil, creator of the Broken Sword series, with art direction by Dave Gibbons, legendary comic book artist behind ‘Watchmen’, comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, the long awaited sequel to the cult classic ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’. ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’ is a dramatic, humorous, cyberpunk thriller in which engaging puzzles drive a fast-paced narrative set in a dynamic gameworld that responds to – and is subverted by – the player’s actions.

Estimated daily players

~1300.0%

Range 66–280

Estimated total players

~56,0000.0%

Range 29K–110K

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Estimates, not counts — nobody publishes real player numbers for mobile games, so these are modelled from public signals. How we work them out

Jun 25, 2020iOSCLASS IND 10ESRB 18PEGI MACB PGUSK 12GRAC 15

Adventure Indie Puzzle Action Science fiction Thriller

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What the estimate rests on

Steam 57%
App Store 43%

Player estimates

Nobody publishes how many people play Beyond a Steel Sky, so these figures are modelled from the public counts on App Store, Steam, Twitch. Each count stands in a roughly known ratio to a population — one Play rating per ~45 players, one Steam review per ~35 owners — and the estimates below combine those readings, weighted by how much each source can be trusted to speak for the whole game. Read the range as the answer and the headline as its middle.

Estimated daily players

~130

0.0%

Range 66 – 280

Built from the live counts: Steam concurrents, Discord and Reddit members online, Twitch viewers.

Estimated total players

~56,000

0.0%

Range 29K – 110K

Everyone who has ever played, from the cumulative counts: store ratings and installs, Steam reviews, members and subscribers.

Estimated total players over time

3 readings · last 3 days

Estimated daily players over time

from live counts

Average estimated players per month

Mean estimated total players for Beyond a Steel Sky per calendar month, newest first
Month	Estimated total players	Change
August 2026	~56,000	—

Community activity

Last checked Aug 10, 2026

Store signals

How many people have rated, reviewed or installed Beyond a Steel Sky where it is sold.

App Store ratings

929

0.0%

Average rating: 4.4

Steam players in game

Reviews: 1,641

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Community signals

How many people gather around Beyond a Steel Sky outside the stores — members, subscribers and live viewers.

Twitch viewers

Live channels: 0

First reading taken Aug 9, 2026 — the chart appears once there are two.

Not tracked for Beyond a Steel Sky: Google Play, Discord, Reddit, YouTube. A platform appears here once the game has a link to it — most mobile games have no Steam port or subreddit, so a gap is normal rather than a sign the game is small.

Storyline

You are Robert Foster. A child has been abducted in a brutal attack. You have vowed to bring him home. But the trail has led you from your community of desert wasteland dwellers, to Union City, one of the last remaining mega-cities in a world ravaged by shattering wars, and political meltdown. Fortified and impenetrable, it is a utopia in which people live happily under the surveillance and control of a benign AI. But all is far from what it seems...

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Frequently asked questions

How many people play Beyond a Steel Sky?

We estimate that about 56,000 people have played Beyond a Steel Sky — plausibly between 29K and 110K. Around 130 of them play on a given day, in a range of 66 and 280. Both figures are modelled from public counts on App Store, Steam and Twitch rather than published by the developer, so read them as a scale rather than as a headcount.

Is Beyond a Steel Sky still active?

Yes. Beyond a Steel Sky is holding steady — it measured within a percent of where it was a week ago. We recheck every source daily, and the charts on this page show each platform's readings over time.

How are the Beyond a Steel Sky player estimates worked out?

Nobody publishes player counts for mobile games, so we infer them. Each public count we can read is converted into a population using a documented ratio — roughly one Google Play rating per 45 people who played, one Steam review per 35 owners, one Discord member per 40 players — and the live counts (Steam concurrents, members online, Twitch viewers) are converted the same way into a daily figure. Those separate estimates are then averaged in proportion to how much each source can be trusted, which is why sources that disagree widen the published range instead of cancelling out. This page is built on 3 readings taken since August 8, 2026.