Severed Steel is a single-player FPS featuring a fluid stunt system, destructible voxel environments, loads of bullet time, and a unique one-armed protagonist. It's you, your trigger finger, and a steel-toed boot against a superstructure full of bad guys. Chain together wall runs, dives, flip...
Severed Steel is a single-player FPS featuring a fluid stunt system, destructible voxel environments, loads of bullet time, and a unique one-armed protagonist. It's you, your trigger finger, and a steel-toed boot against a superstructure full of bad guys. Chain together wall runs, dives, flips, and slides to take every last enemy down.
Key Features
A Unique Fighter
Play as Steel, a nimble, one-armed sharpshooter on a mission. There is no reloading – pick your shots well and be ready to pry a loaded weapon from your enemies' cold dead hands.
Stylish Combat
Dodge bullets, leap off walls, slide kick, throw weapons – do whatever it takes to come out on top in intense and frenzied firefights.
Fully Destructible Environment
Pepper through plaster with sharp 4.7 mm rounds, punch through thick concrete with .50 cal slugs, or make big holes in things with your arm cannon.
Dynamic AI
No two battles are the same thanks to dynamic, unscripted, squad-based AI.
Accessibility
A range of adjustable settings for features such as difficulty, visuals, audio, controls, navigation, and more
Level Editor
Build levels and share them with the community. Note: This feature is in beta and will continue to be updated post-launch
This game is incredibly underrated. It's pretty obvious that the developers put a lot of work and love into it. I'll make it simple: if you like John Wick, Max Payne, or action movies in general, look no further. This game will definitely scratch that itch. Everything about it is great—the music, the gunplay, the mechanics—and did I mention it's super fun?
In this game the developers just said "screw physics and common sense" and made a completely over-the-top insane shooter.
A typical map starts like this: kick a door (door flies and kills the guy behind it), slide into the next guy (trip him, steal his weapon), shoot the next two guys, but - wait - there are two guys in the back. No biggie, wall-run to get close then dive and shoot them from behind while doing a backflip.
All in slow motion.
And then you move to the next room and more chaos ensues.
It's nuts. The core mechanic here is: as long as you are doing stunts, you are invulnerable, and as long as you are making kills you can have slow-mo. Weapons have only one magazine (you have to steal weapons from enemies). The invulnerability and slow-mo are not get out of jail free cards as you still need to actually pull out the stunts and use ammo judiciously.
There are tons of different weapons of different types and a handful of enemy types (it does not get boring). The campaign is short-ish, but there are other modes: shootout which is basically "you + X baddies in a room: fight!" and "rogue steel" which is a set of 10 levels and each level you get to pick a perk (positive or negative). The game also has an editor (have not tried it).
So on top of being a fun shooter, it also has tons of different content.
There are only three potential downsides - the graphics are kind strange (lots of weirdly reflective surfaces - it's hard to describe but you can't miss it), some maps are confusing and you'll wander around lost for a minute, and the music is a bit hit or miss (you can shuffle the tracks in-game).
On discount it is dirt-cheap. You have no excuse not to get this!
The game comes with a level editor, but no in-game browser for community made levels. So, if you're gonna buy this game, buy it on Steam instead.
Other irritations are a completely broken fullscreen mode. Don't even think about using Nvidia's DSR feature, it doesn't work, and prepare to fix the fullscreen mode on every game launch, as it doesn't save properly. The female protagonist should also not be listed as one of the game's selling features. She's not voice acted, she doesn't even have a name, and therefore, might as well be a male. That would at least make the enemies' reactions to her kicks more believable.
For a studio's first title, this game is nevertheless absolutely impressive. It's a no-nonsense fast paced action FPS. The game natively launches in DX12 and without RTX, but both DX11 and an RTX version of the game can be launched alternatively. The only RT feature the game has is reflections, but they are appreciated, as there are entire rooms and hallways with reflective surfaces.
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