Steel Seed Steam Charts & Stats

Don't sleep on this game if you're a fan of stealth. Take it from guy who invested 20h into this game. I put it on my radar on it ever since the demo came out and wishlisted it immediately after completing it. I hardly ever buy games at release and I did for this one. That's how much I anticipated it so that should tell you something. On with the game, the atmosphere really caught my eye since the beginning. As a sci-fi fan the setting is the game strongest suit. Even though it's a post-apocaliptic story the Earth has healed after humanity had destroyed its ability to sustain life. With us gone machines have taken over and built industrial utopias imposible to make by human hands. One man has stored his conscience in 4 shards you must collect to bring him back and with him, the knowledge to restore humanity. That's where our protagonists comes in, a construct of machine and human conscience safeguarded to take on the task and well... unfortunately she's not great I gotta admit. She's a serviceable character at best and annoying at worst. She basically is given no depth as her memories of her once human life have been erased and her conversations are mostly with her hovering robot companion which emits beeps everytime she speaks so yeah, the only intelligent dialogues comes from her talks with Savi, the AI in charge of setting things in motion. Now the game can be devided in 3 gameplay sections:, stealth, combat and platforming. I'd say it's about a 80/20 split you'll be spending most of the time out of sight of enemies. I always take my time in these sections methodically taking out every single enemy on the map one by one. If this is something you enjoy doing you'll be well served here. When s**t hits the fan you must resort to combat, although much improved since launch I'd still advise to flee the scene if the odds of the ensuing fight are heavily against you. Hits now carry more impact both in audio feedback and actual damage dealt so you can hold your own and come out both satisfied and victorious from the few fight set pieces the game forces you into. There are upgrades you can buy but outside of a few gadgets for your drone I'd say most you can do without unless you want to completely trivialize every encounter but that's just the way I like to play, the whole point of upgrading is to make games easier in the first place just bear in mind they're not really essential for a successful playthough. Now what the game does poorly in terms of the platforming are the chase sequences. They're bad and there's no sugarcoating it. You'll jump and not grab on to whatever you're supposed to hold on to, jump out of time, not see the platform you need to fall onto, hover for too long and ultimately fall to your death, etc. They're eye candy, sure, but I ended up dreading every time my character started to slide and s**t started blowing up around me. Luckily, the devs are still polishing the game's rough edges and there's hope that this can be improved down the line just like combat has been. All in all is a great adventure, wonderful scenarios, great stealth sections, serviceable platforming, much improved combat and some surprising story twists in the endgame . I decided to write this, my first review, thoroughly trying to make justice to it since, sadly, the most negative "helpful" reviews here can only be considered first impressions and most positive ones are 1 or 2 lines long. I believe the story while not original does develop into its potential by the end and it hits the mark even in a few emotional instances despite the flatness of its main character and brings everything together to a satisfying conclusion. This is a compelling package that deserves the time of all gamers wishing to pick apart enemies unnoticed.

A rare gem. It’s not often I play something that balances exploration, stealth, and light RPG mechanics this well. The underground setting feels claustrophobic in the best way. It’s hard to stop playing once you get into the rhythm of sneaking, platforming, and uncovering secrets.

Great mix of stealth, action, and storytelling. Worth the price and then some!

I came in expecting a typical stealth-action indie, but Steel Seed is much more than that. The parkour feels fluid, the level design is clever, and the worldbuilding is genuinely intriguing.

You don’t see many games tackling stealth and sci-fi this well in the indie space. Steel Seed nails the tone, and the world design is top-notch. Plus, the visuals are seriously impressive for a smaller studio. Hope this game gets more attention!

Good idea but realisation is terrible 2 worst enimies combine here - camera which moving "cinematographly" and ruined all control not sensetive and terrible realisation climbing in game about climbing! u can do it only in special places, terrible boxex to jumping on stuff like containers, no, thx. and bugs. i saw first one after 3 minutes of game, pfff, and guess what it was? animation of climbing, GG just freeze in this position after suicide the ceiling. story line - not so much i can say, play only 1 hour, but very very clishe and totaly not interesting, off course on contrast E33 what i just passed it notice really good, but here u can forgote about story but surprisely good optimization, but it doesn't cover all contra refund

It reminds me of older-gen PS3 games in the best nostalgic way, with a tight focus and moody pacing. Definitely underrated.

I really tried to like this game but it just falls short of everything it attempts to do. It's a stealth - exploration - parkour game with awful combat that you're basically forced into because the stealth mechanics are "stand in this field and they won't notice you". They do. Then you're forced into combat and the combat system is straight up bad. You have some attacks you can combo into, but the cooldown for each swing makes combat feel clunky and slow and your attacks don't seem to do nearly enough damage in comparison how much the enemies are doing to you. The parkour aspect of the game is imprecise and frustrating as you attempt to climb or drop down or leap from handhold to wall. I can't tell how many times I've fallen to my death because - according to the game - I wasn't even near the handhold despite me basically hugging it. This game tries to be like Assassin's Creed with the stealth and the parkour but fails miserably as it is both imprecise and clunky. It detracts from the entire experience. The main character is Zoe and she is about as likeable as a brick. She's a cyborg for some reason and has a companion that communicates with beeps. Are those beeps helpful? Not in the slightest. The main antagonist is a robot on a murder spree. Why is it on a murder spree? No idea. It dislikes you for some reason. Steel Seed is all over the place and gets lost with what it is trying to do or tell. It's not a stealth game because the stealth system is straight up bad. The parkour is imprecise and frustrating and combat is clunky and slow and unbalanced. Steel Seed could've been good but it falls short because it tries to do everything all at once and falls painfully short of achieving neither.

This game was a surprise. Excellent visuals, satisfying stealth, cool weapons/skills, good exploration... all in an ultra sci-fi setting. Also, very well optimized. At 1440p Ultra I'm getting consistent 165 FPS (Ryzen 5800 X3D and Radeon 7800 XT)

100 minutes in the game. Refunding it now. Technically game seems solid, did not have any stutters or crashes. In general, you could say that game is... competent enough. Shortest way to describe it would be: it is a modern game, inspired by modern "something for everyone" apporach. Story is sterile and in 1.5 hour could not get me interested at all. Characters... well, again, sterile set of: "strong female protagonist" that shows all the signs of Mary Sue; R2D2-talking-style cute robot; human-like military robot that went crazy and became a dictator; all-wise AI assistant that acknowledge protagonist as a savior of all humanity just after 1-minute talk... But ok, let's put that aside. Story may not even exist if gameplay is good, right? Well, what do we have here then? [list] [*]In less than 2 hours at least 3 identical scenes where everything around protagonist starts to explode or crumble and we have to run/slide in one direction. [*]yellow-highlighted (i'm not kidding, it is yellow here as well, just not paint - glow) ledges with zero variation in traversals and less-than-zero challenge [*] Active fighting system that seems super rudimental [/list] But then again, this is a stealth game, right? Well... What we have here is a standard "stealth in bushes", combined with stupid opponents, wide areas that allow you to do basically anything you want with minimal risk of being detected, and quite low speed of action. If you ever played games like Dishonored, Deus Ex, Thief - you will find local stealth quite rudimental. So, again - sterile, "safe" game that has nothing to impress or surprise (if you're not new in gaming) in first 2 hours. And honestly, I doubt it can get any better later in the game.