Crest and Studio HG have launched the Steam page for their upcoming top-down roguelite brawler, Metallic Child.

Metallic Child is connected to Studio HG’s 2016 game, Smashing The Battle. It follows a combat android named Rona battling an army of hostile robots that threaten to drop the massive spacecraft Life Stream onto Earth.

The game’s combat features a variety of randomized weapons, and players can also grab enemies to use them as shields or improvised projectiles. Rona can be upgraded by stealing cores from enemy robots, gaining access to new abilities.

You can find the official gameplay trailer below.

You can find the rundown (via Steam) below:

Story
METALLIC CHILD is a rogue-lite core-action game, featuring Rona, an android known as “Metallic Child,” taking place in a space laboratory in the not-to-distant future.

A large-scale rebellion has taken place in the space laboratory Life Stream.
All robots aboard, with the exception of Rona and Pan, are conspiring to crash Life Stream into planet earth.
Rona has stood up to stop this plot, and you, of course, will be the one to guide Rona by accessing her control device through this game.

Features
■ Core Grabbing, Rogue-lite Core-Action
Hardcore action utilizing a randomized item distribution, characteristic of a rogue-lite game, and a system of strengthening by robbing cores from enemies.
This game is sure to provide players with a fresh, new experience.

■ “Grab, hurl, and eliminate!”
This is not just some ordinary hack-and-slash game, but also includes elements of a beat’ em up!
You can grab enemies and use them as a shield, hurl them against others, or even smash them into a wall to deal damage.

■ Devastating Battles Against A Multifarious Fleet of Bosses
Rona will be facing numerous bosses who try to thwart her efforts.
Rona will be tormented by the various skills utilized by these bosses.
But, by defeating a boss, Rona can obtain its skills and use it to go against even stronger bosses.

■ An Interactive Story and Quest
You, the gamer, will be controlling Rona remotely from earth. You and Rona will be meeting and assisting many NPCs, with each encounter taking you one step closer to the truth behind the rebellion.
What exactly happened that day in the spacecraft… You, as not just a player, but as a key character of this game, are soon to find out.

Metallic Child releases Spring 2021 for Windows PC (via Steam), Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4.

Image: Steam