![]() ![]() It’s a masterful recreation of a historically-authentic Paris, but it’s an alternative history one, and the automatons are incredibly effective at making the world seem sinisterly dehumanised. Once you start playing it you realise it very much works as a soulslike too. ![]() The catch is that the ally is actually an automaton, and so too are the enemies, because the world of Steelrising is a harrowing steampunk vision in which the conflict is being played out through machines. On the eve of the French Revolution, Marie Antionette, grieving for the loss of her children and effectively imprisoned in a manor on the outskirts of the city, sends a trusted ally on a mission to find out what’s going on. The concept was right for a “GreedFall-like” too. I expected that Steelrising would continue to build on the work that Spiders had done in virtually every title previous. GreedFall made Spiders one of my favourite European developers. Then came GreedFall, a game that transcends the “Eurotrash” that people would generally attribute to Spiders to be a genuinely top-tier RPG. But, then, the team started to figure itself out, and The Technomancer was a vast improvement that stamped Spiders on the map as one to watch. Early efforts from the team, such as Of Orcs and Men, Mars: War Logs, and Bound By Flame, all had their merits, but were also let down in application by clumsy gameplay and budgetary limitations. Spiders started out as a scrappy little RPG developer with creative ambition in spades, but limited technical ability. Spiders might not have the team to create a thing of the scope of Elden Ring, but this is a massively impressive game nonetheless. I don’t know if I’d just missed that bit of news in the initial announcement (I then went out of my way to avoid learning anything about this game prior to when I started playing it), or if the developer and publisher had deliberately kept that on the down-low, but that’s what the game is, and that was just not what I expected. I did not expect that Steelrising would be a Soulslike. ![]()
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