Aegis battles King Louis XVI's automaton legions across a burning Paris in this challenging action-RPG. Players chain dodges, parries, jumps, and attacks against mechanical soldiers, demanding precision and discipline in every clash. Massive machine bosses test patience and skill in intense fights.
Upgrade Aegis's abilities to fight as a ruthless warrior, hard-hitting bodyguard, deadly dancer, or elemental virtuoso, wielding diverse weapons for unique approaches. Grappling hooks and dashes unlock vertical exploration through carriages, secret passages, and a detailed map, revealing the city's layered secrets. Allies like Marie-Antoinette and Robespierre shape an alternate French Revolution, drawing in fans of demanding combat and historical action.
Get the complete experience with the Bastille Edition, which includes:
- Steelrising - the full game
- The Cagliostro's Secrets extension, which is planned for November and reveals the dark secrets behind the king's mechanical army. It also includes lots of new bonus content:
o A brand-new area
o New characters
o A new enemy class and a new boss
o A new weapon and its variants
o The Caput Corvi cosmetic pack, which includes a complete outfit for Aegis
The city burns and bleeds as it suffers the madness of King Louis XVI and his violent legions of automatons. Aegis, a mechanical masterpiece created by the engineer Vaucanson to be the queen's bodyguard, must save the French Revolution in this challenging action-RPG.
CHALLENGING COMBAT BETWEEN AUTOMATONS
Up against the king's mechanical soldiers, deadly accuracy will be needed. String together dodges, parries, jumps and devastating attacks to fight your way through Paris. Every fight will test your nerve and requires excellent discipline, while the huge relentless machine bosses demand patience and skill.
AEGIS: A CHARACTER WITH EXTRAORDINARY SKILLS
Define your own style and upgrade your abilities as you progress through the game. You can play as a ruthless warrior, a hard-hitting bodyguard, a deadly dancer or a virtuoso of the elemental arts. Take advantage of a wide variety of weapons and skills to approach each fight in your own unique way.
REVOLUTIONARY PARIS IS YOUR PLAYGROUND
Using carriages, grapples, secret passages, a detailed map, and other methods and tools you find along the way, explore a city experiencing its darkest days. Your grappling hook adds a new dimension to exploration and Paris's verticality. Combined with your dash ability, it will provide access to all the city's secrets across multiple levels you can explore over and over again.
CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY
You are one of the main characters of an alternative history where Paris is being choked by a tyrant king. Allies and enemies with unclear motives will cross your path, such as Marie-Antoinette, Lafayette and Robespierre. It's up to you to cut a path through all the plotting and put an end to one man's madness so that the French Revolution succeeds.
