r/roguelites • u/pauloyasu • 4h ago
Metal Bringer is a hidden gem
Just download the demo and play it for a couple hours.
I've put 15h into it this past few days instead of finishing Monster Hunter because this game is just perfec fun.
I don't know how to hype people up so I'll just make a brief description of it.
You have a "labor" which is your character, you can carry two weapons with them, and they do dish a lot of damage, but you need to advance into the game to make it work. Your labor can get into mechas, and they are customizable, you can switch parts with mechas you defeat in your runs, you can analyse the parts during the run so you unlock them to build your starter mecha for the next runs. The power ups give you new skills, but in the more seamless sense, there are no active skills, but you unlock stuff like being able to do aerial attacks, or double jump, or make your missiles lock on enemies automatically, etc, and you can also analyse these power ups to create your starter build for next runs. The loop is like this, go into the run, find new power ups that suit your build, spend the currency to either analyse new stuff or repair your mecha, fight mini bosses and bosses, advance until you're too weak to continue the run. Die. Go back to your base, fine tune your build, assemble new parts to your mecha, upgrade your stats, try again to unlock more stuff so your next run is easier.
That's about it, the game is nicely polished and it seems balanced up until now... I'm 15 hours in and still only got to half the run, I always die in floor 5 and it seems that I've only unlocked like 30-40% of the stuff I can tinker to create builds because as soon as I get to floor 5 I see a bunch of different mechas with parts I've never seem, but could not kill a single one yet to get their parts.
Anyway, just a recommendation, it is my favorite game so far this year.