
Steel Seed is a stealth-action adventure set in a dark sci-fi world on the brink of extinction. Play as Zoe and her drone Koby as they explore a hostile underground facility. Uncover secrets, survive dangers, search for answers, and humanity’s last hope.
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Steel Seed — a gripping action-adventure game from the visionary team behind the critically acclaimed Close to the Sun, set in a dark sci-fi world where humanity stands on the brink of extinction. Join protagonist Zoe and her flying drone companion, KOBY, as they investigate the depths of a hostile underground facility in search of answers and the key to the survival of mankind.
After a catastrophic event rendered Earth uninhabitable, machines took control of the remnants of humanity’s survival. The underground facility is a vast, machine-built structure designed for machines — not humans. Each region presents unique environmental storytelling, hazards, and secrets waiting to be uncovered. From towering industrial landscapes to eerie biodomes, the world of Steel Seed is as haunting as it is immersive. Explore a hand-crafted world filled with dynamic combat, formidable enemies, and an immersive narrative that challenges the very definition of humanity.
Zoe isn’t alone — her only ally is Koby, a prototype drone designed to assist her. Initially just a tool, Koby becomes a crucial partner, offering guidance and solving puzzles through environmental interactions. Though it communicates only through chirps and visual cues, Koby becomes Zoe’s emotional anchor in an otherwise desolate world. They create a formidable duo by working together and bringing something new to every fight.
Adapt your playstyle with a unique blend of stealth-action gameplay:
Stealth & Strategy – Utilize shadows, distractions, and the environment to evade or take down enemies.
Dynamic Combat – Face off against various enemy types and challenging bosses, each with unique abilities.
Upgradeable Abilities – Customize Zoe’s playstyle with three distinct skill trees featuring 40 different upgrades.
Highly interactive environments encourage creative problem-solving, making every encounter feel strategic and rewarding.
Steel Seed isn’t just about survival — it’s about exploring the fine line between human and machine, trust and control, resilience and despair. Revised and edited by BAFTA-winning writer Martin Korda, it pairs an intriguing main character's evolution with a compelling and deep narrative experience.
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian*, Traditional Chinese, Polish +2 more
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Great game, The gameplay is just great, I felt like I was playing Assassin’s Creed mixed up with Uncharted, and the story is okay.
Top-tier AAA game compatible with UEVR.
To start with what I liked about this. Resource management was very well balanced, I could typically afford most of what I was looking for but always wanted more without new upgrades ever feeling impossibly expensive. The way that new abilities were unlocked by associated actions kept gameplay engaging - though a pinning function would have been nice to remember what I was trying to do any how much I had left. The art directing was superb, the environments feel both incomprehensively massive and appropriately detailed without being too cluttered - most of the time. Everything else was disappointing to actively awful. The plot was at once both extremely predictable with betrayals and deaths exactly where they were expected, and utterly incoherent with characters frequently citing off-screen plans that are never properly explained unless you decide to scavenge for logs and stop your stealth-action to do useless homework. Combat was usually alright if not for elites that were immune to your hacked allies and the sentry gunners that would just kill you if they saw you. Collision detection is poorly polished and more than once I lost a cleared area because I got stuck in front of an enemy that just slowly murdered me. The animations are shockingly well polished for how frustratingly slow and generally unimpactful they feel. The MC's voice acting is so wooden and shallow that it's impossible to take anything she says seriously; I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that a silent protagonist would require essentially no adjustment and work much better. We're supposed to become instantly emotionally attached to a character whose only function is a marketable mascot that keeps throwing itself into gunfire or pressing needlessly convoluted buttons. There is so little regard for its own story, openly contradicting itself multiple times; a non-physical character being killed with a sword, an irrational antagonist that just magically turns into an ally, an impossibly powerful antagonist just falls over and dies in a cutscene, the MC is praised for her inquisitiveness despite *never asking a question ever*. The save points and checkpoint system is often frustrating, respawning enemies in immediate proximity while still depleting your energy and ammo. Far too many instant-kill zones and explosions. Essentially nothing in the way of useful tutorials, I was halfway through the game before I randomly discovered Koby's tool wheel. Elites don't show up as elites until combat starts so planning an approach is difficult to do until you've screwed up and died so you know who is who. The headshot mechanic is frustratingly unreliable, sometimes just starting combat instead of picking off a sentry. The incessant cutscene paralysis, making me wait to see what arbitrary limitation or problem I was about to be saddled with because the MC doesn't have two neurons to rub together. I could keep going for a while, but I feel I have made my point. If you really love stealth-action gameplay and can cover your ears for the dialogue, it may be worth your time. Otherwise, don't bother.
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Я однозначно не могу промолчать, хоть и поиграл не долго... Единственное о чём я сожалею, так это что не взял Deluxe издание, хоть и стоит копейки. Первое что я сразу же оценил, так это саундтрек(музыка) в главном меню, его я прослушал раз 5, перед началом игры! Поймут не многие, но те кто на моей волне, оценят однозначно! Далее началась сама игра, саундтрек во время игры, отличный, прям как в кино. Скажу сразу же, я не знал что в игре графика рисованная, такую я вообще терпеть не могу, но тут наверное сыграла музыка и мне прям хочется пройти дальше, плюс русская озвучка, а именно видео в игре вообще шикарное качество! И мне реально стало очень интересно, что же будет дальше?! Сейчас сюжет не понятен и интересен. Геймплей ничего удивительного, но меня всё устраивает. Мне уже понравилась игра, однозначно буду проходить её и зря раньше это откладывал. Дальше дополню, как и что будет понятно. Кому интересно, игра потребляет: в 2к разрешении на ультра настройках при 120fps, память ОЗУ 11Гб, видеокарта память 9-11 Гб. RTX 4070.
Игра не пытается быть супер хитом, имеет свои огрехи, и наверно именно этой простотой и откровенностью цепляет. История типовая, хоть и подана неплохо. Боевка без каких то инноваций, и местами корявая, но вполне интересная и может дать "прикурить". Графика радует эпичными пейзажами, но иногда расстраивает темнющими коридорами, где ничего не видно. Некоторые считают что графика устарела. Мне наоборот нравится, что в ней нет тонны фальшивых эффектов вроде motion blur и прочего "мыла". Все выглядит так, как ты бы видел своими глазами. Уровни местами пустоватые, а где то заставляют подумать или наоборот действовать быстро. Здесь нет "фансервиса", но при этом есть старое доброе годное повествование без намека на современные тренды (DLC, донат и прочее), а некоторые моменты прям запоминаются. Мне кажется правильным вот такое сравнение. Эта игра - не про то, как ты круто сходил в навороченный кинотеатр на крутой фильм, а про то, как ты уютно посмотрел дома просто хороший фильм, который запал в душу. Ну и многие уже упомянули хороший и полный перевод на русский язык, что прямо неожиданно и приятно в наше время.
im stuck in this one place where i need to get to the carts and im stuck in this wheel thing where i need to get down. please fix this glitch
Gorgeous looking game. Really fun. Awesome environments ad combat is fun. Pick it up you won't b disappointed. Ignore the silly negative comments. Ull always have cry babies just needing something to whine about.
Не смотря на стальную наружность, игра очень душевная. Да, её можно достаточно быстро пробежать. Понравились моменты со сменой ракурса. Особенно, когда появлялся титан. Сразу как-то осознаёшь свою ничтожность в сравнении с таким здоровяком.
So far so good runs buttery smooth! Interesting Story
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