Steelrising - Release Day

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The Action RPG Steelrising will be released today:

Steelrising

The city burns and bleeds as it suffers the madness of King Louis XVI and his violent legions of automatons. Aegis, a mechanical masterpiece created by the engineer Vaucanson to be the queen's bodyguard, must save the French Revolution in this challenging action-RPG.


CHALLENGING COMBAT BETWEEN AUTOMATONS
Up against the king's mechanical soldiers, deadly accuracy will be needed. String together dodges, parries, jumps and devastating attacks to fight your way through Paris. Every fight will test your nerve and requires excellent discipline, while the huge relentless machine bosses demand patience and skill.

AEGIS: A CHARACTER WITH EXTRAORDINARY SKILLS
Define your own style and upgrade your abilities as you progress through the game. You can play as a ruthless warrior, a hard-hitting bodyguard, a deadly dancer or a virtuoso of the elemental arts. Take advantage of a wide variety of weapons and skills to approach each fight in your own unique way.

REVOLUTIONARY PARIS IS YOUR PLAYGROUND
Using carriages, grapples, secret passages, a detailed map, and other methods and tools you find along the way, explore a city experiencing its darkest days. Your grappling hook adds a new dimension to exploration and Paris's verticality. Combined with your dash ability, it will provide access to all the city's secrets across multiple levels you can explore over and over again.

CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY
You are one of the main characters of an alternative history where Paris is being choked by a tyrant king. Allies and enemies with unclear motives will cross your path, such as Marie-Antoinette, Lafayette and Robespierre. It's up to you to cut a path through all the plotting and put an end to one man's madness so that the French Revolution succeeds.
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And I wait for their next RPG. :)
 
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According to HLTB it's only 11.5 hours...
It's only one entry though, so take it with a grain of salt.
 
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Too short for me. I can accept that lenght from a visual novel only.
 
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Sigh bring on GreedFall 2 as player reviews are not that glowing.
 
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I was considering getting it when I saw that Fanatical have a 25% off coupon for it (via email), but then found out that they appear to be doing some regional pricing shenanigans with it and the 25% off price ends up within 7c of the Steam full price. WTF

At this stage, Thymesia looks like the much better deal if you want to scratch that Souls-like itch.
 
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Shagnak said:
I was considering getting it when I saw that Fanatical have a 25% off coupon for it (via email), but then found out that they appear to be doing some regional pricing shenanigans with it and the 25% off price ends up within 7c of the Steam full price. WTF

At this stage, Thymesia looks like the much better deal if you want to scratch that Souls-like itch.
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Looks like GreenManGaming also have it at 25% off, but their full price before the discount is the Steam price so it's an actual discount.
 
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Seems sales are very weak and with mixed reviews on steam, 50% off in the winter sale or bundle soon :LOL:
 
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Shagnak said:
At this stage, Thymesia looks like the much better deal if you want to scratch that Souls-like itch.
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But it looks more interesting than Thymesia imho. And many reviewers (players) mentioned that it has a story that is not bad.
But if you mean that Thymesia has way lower price, ok then. I didnt check that.
 
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Farflame said:
But it looks more interesting than Thymesia imho. And many reviewers (players) mentioned that it has a story that is not bad.
But if you mean that Thymesia has way lower price, ok then. I didnt check that.
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Yep, I'm mostly talking about the much lower price for something comparable ($~25 USD vs $50 USD). And by comparable I mean as in both are AA Souls-likes, both are relatively short, have similar critic ratings, but Thymesia had much better user reviews on Steam (Very Positive vs Mixed when I originally looked - though Steelrising is now Mostly Positive).

If the setting and story are enough to tip the scales for you, then cool. (For the record I think the setting etc looks great, though Thymesia has a pretty neat aesthetic as well IMO - though not as interesting admittedly)
 
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Shagnak said:
Yep, I'm mostly talking about the much lower price for something comparable ($~25 USD vs $50 USD). And by comparable I mean as in both are AA Souls-likes, both are relatively short, have similar critic ratings, but Thymesia had much better user reviews on Steam (Very Positive vs Mixed when I originally looked - though Steelrising is now Mostly Positive).

If the setting and story are enough to tip the scales for you, then cool. (For the record I think the setting etc looks great, though Thymesia has a pretty neat aesthetic as well IMO - though not as interesting admittedly)
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One important difference though is that you can choose difficulty levels in Steelrising, while Thymesia only has the typical soulslike level of difficulty. That might be a factor for some.
 
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You know I am glad for the poor sales/reviews. Hopefully it means Spiders will never waste time with developing another souls-like, and focus again on story/questdriven RPGs.

Nacon probably swayed them to make a souls-like. There all the rage right now.
 
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One important difference though is that you can choose difficulty levels in Steelrising, while Thymesia only has the typical soulslike level of difficulty. That might be a factor for some.
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Yeah, that actually ups the appeal for Steelrising for me, because I'm not exactly competitive in the Souls-like arena.

Those that I've played to the end (e.g. Code Vein, Hellpoint) I've had to cheat eventually just to see the ending. :(
 
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