Steelrising

The game is a lot of fun: simple but clean actions, interesting stories but not feel overwhelming or too cryptic to enjoy, interesting level design, and more. Action is easy to learn but fun to try to master the timing of different weapons vs. different enemy attacks; and even more fun try to face a group of enemies (in souls this is usually heavily funished but here the game provides mechanics to play around a group of enemies). Stories are interesting and feels just enough to give the action meaning. And the story is clean: no cryptic messages or code you have to read backwards to know what is going on. The stories (main and side ones) also blends well with the level design where it leads to revisit areas with new abilities. There are certainly flaws in this game like some object placement are awkwardly causing bugs/strange exclusions around the edges. But the core gameplay and story is fantastic. (careful walking on surfaces you are not meant to walk on -> you may suddenly fall between things and get trapped)

Let me preface this that I'm an "old guy" and not a hardcore gamer. I didn't find this game too difficult, but I don't play on the hard levels at first. The premise of this game intrigued me, so I finally picked it up. Well worh the time and money. It's not a really long game, 50 or so hours for me, but there's a lot of little side quests and details to be found. The graphics are great as is the voice acting. Storyline was interesting and the automatons (automats in the game) can get a bit repetitive, but still interesting enough. Recommended by me for what it's worth.

Story is ok so far, characters are nothing special except perhaps the main character. Combat is good but there is a lack in enemy variety. The weapons are the most dissapointing as I like parry mechanics and that restricts you to a couple of weapons (that I have found so far, I've defeated two titans). Overall enjoying my time with it though! As a french speaker, the prononciation of French words is a bit painful, would have been preferable to go full english or subtitled French rather than this mix.

It's a pretty good Soulslike, probably the closest to an actual Souls game in terms of HUD UI and layout, and the enemies/bosses actually feel like Souls enemies by allowing you to be methodical and wait for openings that usually are a similar pace. It's a little bit easier overall without hidden traps everywhere, but overall it's a 5/5 for the combat and I'm really enjoying the writing. Spiders games tend to be overlooked aside from Greedfall mostly, and I have to say. They make fairly good RPGs and are slowly improving more and more. Greedfall and Steelrising are easily two of their best games with Bound By Flame and Technomancer being solid choices too! Anyways aside from overall love for Spiders games, going in with a clear head, it's the most fun I've had with a Soulslike since The Surge and The Surge 2.

I like it so much, plot, music, quests, main character and views. Maps and objects to find is demanding but get used to it. Most done :) You have to go everywhere! Too many machines to kill and check-points make us to do it again - good thing you can run thru them.