Steelrising

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Very recommended, love playing this game.

secondo me ha il giusto compromesso tra difficoltà e curva di apprendimento per non risultare mai nè banale nè frustrante

Steelrising — Review in Progress (8.5 Hours) The Good Machine, Poorly Dressed Steelrising has a genuinely compelling identity at its core, and it lives entirely in its protagonist. Aegis is the most interesting thing in the game by a considerable margin. Her animations carry real mechanical personality — weapons retracting into her frame between encounters, movement that reads as constructed rather than performed. She feels like what she is: the most dangerous Automat in revolutionary Paris, a killing machine built for a queen. That's a strong foundation. The problem is the game doesn't seem to know what to do with it once it's laid. Cosmetics as a Missed Opportunity If you're going to hand the player the most lethal Automat in France, the least you can do is let her look the part. Instead, Steelrising leans hard into period-accurate French fashion and then stops there. Every armor set is a variation on the same 18th-century silhouette. There's something almost philosophically off about that. Aegis is a machine of war — and she's wearing brocade. It could be intentional contrast if the game framed it that way, but it doesn't. It just is that way, with no apparent awareness of the tension it's leaving on the table. Loot That Works Against Itself The exploration loop has a structural problem: you already know what's around the corner. More Essence. The occasional unique weapon breaks the monotony, but the overwhelming majority of loot is upgrade currency in different denominations, and the game never disguises that well enough to keep discovery feeling rewarding. In a soulslike, exploration is supposed to feed curiosity — the promise that something genuinely surprising might be waiting. When the reward becomes predictable, the motivation to push forward quietly erodes. Each Essence pickup feels less like a find and more like a reminder of what isn't there. Combat: A Promise That Stops Paying Out The first five to seven hours of combat land well. The mechanical stiffness that could read as a flaw reads instead as intentional — you're a machine, and machines move differently. But without meaningful hit impact to sustain that fantasy, the novelty fades. Lies of P understood something crucial: when your enemies are constructed things, you have permission to destroy them visually. Sparks, fragmentation, pieces shearing off — that's not just spectacle, it's feedback. It tells you the fight meant something. Metal on metal with no payoff is just grinding. And for a game built around automats tearing each other apart in burning Paris, that's a significant atmospheric miss the game had every excuse to avoid. A Story With No One Home Eight and a half hours in with zero memorable characters is kind of crazy even for souls-likes. The premise has real potential — a queen using her personal killing machine as a political instrument during one of history's most chaotic upheavals — but the queen herself exits the narrative almost immediately after establishing the setup. What remains is a cast that exists to deliver exposition and then recede. Revolutionary Paris should crackle with ideology, desperation, and moral ambiguity. Instead it's backdrop. And that backdrop becomes harder to appreciate when every region looks like the same cobblestone street with a different fire. The Verdict So Far Steelrising is a game that had ideas and didn't fully commit to any of them. Aegis as a concept is excellent. The Automat aesthetic is genuinely distinctive. The historical setting is underutilized but inherently interesting. What's missing is follow-through — on the visual brutality the premise earns, on the loot variety that would justify exploration, on characters compelling enough to make the story worth caring about. That said — if a Steelrising 2 gets announced, I could see myself buying it. This is disappointment with potential still visible underneath it, which is a different thing entirely from a game that simply failed.

What kind of idiot decides you should only be able to invert the Y-axis?

3/10 Тягомотина.

I barely give this Souls-like by Spiders—the jank masters of GreedFall and GreedFall 2—a pass. They barely pass the test. If the passing score is 40, then this game is a 40.1. If you're looking for a Souls-like to jump into as a new player, look somewhere else. If you're an RPG/Soulslike veteran, look somewhere else as well. If you're bored and want something dirt cheap on a sale for 10–15 hours to kind of waste, then Steelrising is okay, I guess. Positives: - A genuine protagonist you root for—she is determined, loving, and loyal, with an amazing character design. - The story definitely has potential but ultimately falters in the end. - A large amount of weaponry and ways to tailor the game to your own playstyle. Negatives: Abysmal PC performance for the subpar fidelity it provides. Clunky and janky—getting caught on invisible terrain; the camera tries to snap back to your character when you try to pan up to shoot a grapple hook; the camera gets lost in fences, bushes, and walls when you try to fight; janky animations that provide no feedback. A disappointing ending—very disappointing. You get a nearly five-minute, stupid monologue from the mastermind of the events that you only see once you reach the final level. I wanted to see a happy conclusion for Aegis and her companion, not a weak antagonist getting executed and then fading to black. I spent 12 hours only to be disappointed by the ending. I have played a lot of Euro-jank games in my life—Elex, Elex 2, the Gothic series, Risen, the old Divinity RPGs, Two Worlds—so I have a high tolerance for them. This is a very Euro-jank Souls-like, and Euro Jank + Souls-like isn't a nice mix, as souls-like games require the gameplay and combat to be intuitive, smooth, and reliable, Jank is the opposite of that. I only recommend this game on a dirt-cheap sale—like a very, very deep sale for a couple of bucks. Anything more than that, and the value diminishes steeply because of its poor gameplay quality, poor performance, and very disappointing ending. I give this a thumbs up, but barely, and I fully understand why people gave it a negative review and quit within the first three hours. It has flaws that are extremely hard to forgive unless you've played a lot of janky games in the past. I really love Aegis, the main protagonist of this game. I just wish the game had a better conclusion to her story.