Boiling Steel: Preface

Boiling Steel: Preface is a sci-fi VR shooter set on a colony planet founded by people seeking a life free from bureaucratic, religious and other radical restrictions. The colony uses technologies banned in inhabited worlds, including industrial teleportation and consciousness transfer, while automated factories, power plants, mines and residential complexes rely on robotic shells controlled by operators’ minds. After a virus turns the robots into aggressive machines, the colony’s inhabitants take control of shells and send them into battle. The virus is contained and the cleanup is nearing its final phase, but the uprising is only the beginning of a wider catastrophe.

Your hibernation capsule is quarantined on an orbital station, from where you control an engineering department’s robotic shell. You fight to survive, investigate the global cataclysm and try to discover its nature and save the planet. Story missions reveal the planet’s secrets, and the game offers at least 10 hours of play, even for experienced players.

Combat and upgrades

Quick weapon reloading is built around a dedicated system. You can choose from nine tools with two-handed grip mechanics, and frequently used tools improve automatically through the weapon upgrade system. You can also enhance selected parameters of your robotic shell to adapt the gameplay to your preferences.

Missions and environments

Biomes and dangers are randomly generated, so they vary between playthroughs. Story missions uncover the planet’s mysteries as the conflict develops.