Gestalt: Steam & Cinder
Metamorphosis Games · 2024 · RPG, Action, Metroidvania, Story Rich, Female Protagonist
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About Gestalt: Steam & Cinder
✦ AI summary
Slash, shoot, and dash through the sprawling Steam City of Canaan as elite mercenary Aletheia, mixing melee combos with gunplay while uncovering ancient secrets that threaten civilization itself. Customize your abilities and gear to take on clockwork horrors and corrupt overlords across a vast world packed with side jobs, mysteries, and rival encounters.
Join Aletheia and a vibrant cast of characters as they race to discover the secrets of the Steam City of Canaan. Clobber armies of Clockwork golems and hunt horrors that slither through depths once forgotten. Thwart the twisted schemes of Canaan’s corrupt overseers, the nefarious Comitium. Fight for mankind’s survival and reveal the dark and dangerous truths riveted into the very foundations of the Steam City.
Step into the shoes of Aletheia and tread the path of the Soldner, an elite mercenary of Irkalla who lives one job at a time. Take up the sword and gun, combining a slew of melee combos and deadly gunplay in staggering feats of skill that will leave your enemies reeling. 
Chase down a frenzied mutant charging through the grimy stalls of the Irkallan Black Market, leap across the molten pools blazing in the eternal furnace of Fornax, and fight off hordes of blood-drunk Raiders that prowl the fathomless depths of the Scrap Sea in search of their malignant god.
Canaan is vast, and inside its swirling steam lie innumerable mysteries waiting to be unraveled. After a routine job goes awry, Aletheia sets out on an epic journey to uncover ancient enigmas threatening the very foundations of the Steam City. Challenge powerful new rivals and catch up with old friends as you carve your path through Canaan. Take on side jobs to earn a bit of extra scrap and delve into a history lost to the vagaries of time. 
Or maybe you’d just like to wash down your worries at Vincent’s Pub and listen for a rumor or two…
Dash, dodge, and double-jump to keep out of harm’s way and stay in one piece. Wield a furious and fearsome array of abilities and grow stronger with each foe you defeat.
Spend experience points to unlock new skills and trade scrap for accessories to customize your build and go toe-to-toe with some of the most formidable creatures to ever lumber beneath the copper sky.
Hear that? The clang of a hammer stinging blood-red steel… The sinister murmur of heresies rushing through ancient pipes… Riddles echoing through vaulted halls of marble and madness. Sounds like fate has a job in store for you, Soldner—it’s time to earn your scrap.
“Thine trembling works of Reason naught but ingots gleaming darkly by the light of a cindered heart—for what art thine flesh before the mother’s touch of flame?”
- Dreams of the Steam Saint Anais, XXXIV, iii
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This is a very solid action platformer / metroidvania-lite -- world building is awesome, graphics/sprite work is top notch. I would absolutely play the next title by these devs. Doesn't overstay its welcome and has perfect difficulty. Grab it on sale, probably good on steam deck
A great and very enjoyable Metroidvania game. Would suggest it to anyone to play. Can get all achievement in one playthrough. If if would rate it it would be an 8.5 out of 10.
Not a bad game, but it just didn't feel good. That first boss I ran into just felt slow, and a bit awkward. It did not feel smooth and well-thought-out. In, my opinion. I'll toss a recommend, because I don't think this was bad game, but I need it gel better with me if I’m going to put time into it. Seems pretty solid though, give it a try!
It´s not a bad game, but it´s completely unremarkable. you´re not missing anything by not playing it. You got the dominus collection and bloodstained if you feel like playing an igavania anyways
good metroidvania with a great artstyle and intriguing story
It was a fun metroidvania. Difficulty wasn't consistent. Start easy. Got Harder. Then level off to rather easy again.
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