Stellar Jockeys have been working on a “tactical vehicle action game” in the form of Brigador.

The game puts you in control of a pilot within a powerful mecha (or tank-like mech), as your only goal is to liberate the city and its nine districts from various militaristic factions.

Featured above, you can view the game’s Early Access trailer, which should give you a good idea of its neon-drenched, cyberpunk aesthetics. The game has rapidly changed and been improved since its first reveal a year ago.

Here are some key features behind the game:

• The engine is built from scratch and is sprite based, not 3D
• The game is currently single-player only
• Real time combat, and projectiles move in 3-space so aiming is harder (can under/over shoot your target)
• Designed for short, highly iterative session length; a full run shouldn’t take more than an hour
• The game’s nine levels are prefabricated but enemy spawns and the factions you face are randomized. There is custom map support.
• Completely destructible environments
• Choose from mechs, tanks and antigrav vehicles to pilot
• Wide range of weapons for different play styles

Brigador has been in development for a little over two years, by the four person America-based indie studio Stellar Jockeys. They’ve also contracted people out for music and sound effects, like Tapio Liukkonen (Amnesia: Dark Descent and Overgrowth).

Now they’re set to release the game on Steam Early Access, on October 20th. For now, you can preorder the game via the Stellar Jockeys’ website, for $15.