A great mech game needs to be brutal. You want heavy machines, weighty, physical combat, and an overarching sense of struggle – you want it to feel nasty. FromSoftware’s Armored Core 6 is appropriately vicious, that terrific sense of labor and struggle as you heave your machine into yet another battle. But a new mech game takes the sensation of power and pain to a new level. Available right now on Steam, it mixes AC6 with the building, management, and high-pressure systems building of FTL: Faster Than Light.

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