Steampunk Metroidvania Clockwork Ambrosia serves up waves of mechs and an endless amount of weapon and mod combinations to dismantle them with, and you can try it on Steam

Clockwork Ambrosia has the kind of throwback aesthetics I’ll be thinking about for weeks

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Clockwork Ambrosia is an endearingly retro-looking Metroidvania with steampunk aesthetics and a penchant for mech dismantling that you can play right now.

The soon-to-be-released Steam game appeared at theFuture Games Show, offering a tease of what it’s all about. You play as an itinerant airship engineer called Irish who wants to escape the biomes of Aspida after a near-miss airship crash.

It’s rarely so simple, though, as our protagonist gets wrapped up in an eon-spawning mystery that sees the locals disappear as malevolent robots and cyborgs take their place. A mystery with a truth that Iris might not be comfortable learning, as developer Realmsoft teases.

The gameplay you’ll engage with between story beats mashes up 2D shooter fun with Metroidvania elements. There are oodles of unique weapons to find alongside “rule-breaking” modifications, giving you plenty of ways to dismantle a mech – from screen-filing blasts and missile strikes to armor-piercing sniper rounds for the more precise among you.

It wouldn’t be much of a Metroidvania either if there weren’t beautiful biomes to discover and return to. There’s everything from a steampunk city set among the clouds to the moody underbelly of the sunken kingdoms, all presented in nostalgic pixel art that ought to remind you of older games.

If that sounds like your type of thing, Clockwork Ambrosia hasa Steam demo you can play right now. The release date is down as ‘coming soon,’ too – you, so hopefully, won’t be waiting long for that full release.

If you’re looking for more excellent games from today’s Future Games Show, have a look atour official Steam page.

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