Steelrising Reviews

It’s kind of mid. The combat feels clunky and gets repetitive quickly, with no new mechanics introduced after the first few hours. Enemies are reused a lot, and the boss fights, which should be the highlight, are far too easy—most can be beaten on the first try with barely any effort. The setting is cool, but overall, it’s an underwhelming experience. I wouldn’t recommend it.

Game is just straight up unpolished, and it's such a waste for such a great idea of a French revolution flavoured by clockwork automats. The gameplay is not too punishing yet challenging, allowing novices to the souls-like genre to adapt at a fair pace. The graphics are nice, the aesthetics are terrific. Some ideas and implementations are unique and even inspiring. However, he setup is either in-medias-res or rather non-existent, the player is ought to connect with the lore through poorly written, repetitive french-english mixture dialogs and also repetitive generic find-this fetch-that quests. The weapon ideas are great, but quick to get boring as no real new combos and opportunities are revealed to the player, only ways to unlock areas to face the very same content with different flavor. Also the environment is bizarre in a way, that e.g. some doors/barricades can be destroyed and they unlock loot/areas but look identical to the ones those cannot be destroyed. Stuff should be interactive are not, yet some design solutions are so unintuitive I've spent way too much frustrating minutes trying to find my way forward. Trying to jump creatively on places makes the character bugged out so you need to spend all your currency and xp to teleport back. I've found myself playing the game just to finish it, instead of having fun. Oh, and sometimes fulmination 1-shots you, after a boss killed me 3 times with this (probably) bugged attack, I've lost my patience to complete the game or to play anymore alltogether. Sad.

It's bad. Somebody could say it's broken, but no, it's not. Broken could be only thing that was intact. This product containing traces of game was bad from it's release. There is no anything that works fine. Bad, cull, clunky and bulky controls. Awful default gamepad key mapping. Movements like real clockwork doll, not even a partially smoothness in it. Dodge that doesn't give u anything, to short to give a distance, and have no i-frame. Block and parry - is a privilege, it's an ability for a weapon, not a basic move. And yep, there are a bunch of weapons that have no neither parry nor blocking. Have a nice repetitive boring fight for the liberty of France. Or better just have a nice time observing flowers on the wallpaper ptints

I played a lot of soulslike games, but this controls are just terrible. Especially the dodge and impact of the weapons feels scuffed.

Good game with poor optimisation. I kind of liked the linearity of the game, it reminded me of dark souls but it wasn't hard and it can be really easy if you gonna use bombs

Tentatively recommend the game, as far as Spiders games go this is probably the best one they've ever made (I admittedly don't have a high opinion of Spiders). As for non Fromsoft Souls-likes, the game is a good first try; better than Lords of the Fallen, about as good as The Surge, and not as good as The Surge2. Surprisingly most comparable to Deck 13 souls-likes.

I would give this mixed reviews, but as we can't do that on Steam, I would give it positive review instead as I feel it's mixed but still leaning to positive. + Interesting premise and settings. + Decent, although not great, souls-like gameplay. + Considering the scale and the gameplay quirks, the not-too-hard difficulty of the game made the game more palatable. + Quite a lot of side quests to be done. + The dodge and the parry felt good. + Voice acting is not bad for an indie game. + Same thing for the music/sound. - Balancing is not really well-thought. - The amount of backtrack felt quiet tedious with this level design. Could be improved significantly if they decide to implement a map instead. - Not a fun game for achievement hunters as it is beyond tedious.