STEELRISING

Developer Spiders Publisher Nacon

Format PC, PS5, Xbox Series Release TBA

As alternate-history elevator pitches go, “King Louis XVI’s automata army is terrorising the citizens of Paris” is a pretty tasty one. SteelRising represents a shift in tack for Spiders, from its usual brand of ambitious, if rough-hewn, RPG to something more akin to Bloodborne by way of Binary Domain. You play as Aegis, a robot fighting for the revolutionaries in 1789. Can you commit regicide more efficiently than the guillotine did four years later?