History VideoGame / SeveredSteel

* SpiderTank: The climax of the fifth chapter concludes with a boss fight of such, piloted by [=EdenSys's=] CEO; this is essentially the game's FinalBoss. There are a couple of levels afterward, but they largely involve waves of regular enemies.

''Severed Steel'' is a [[HeroicBloodshed Stylish]] [[CombatParkour Parkour]] FirstPersonShooter by Greylock Studio, released in 2021. The game's ExcusePlot concerns an agent Steel, who wakes up in a garbage compactor [[AnArmAndALeg with her arm missing]] and tears through hordes of [[MegaCorp EdenSys]] mooks through her combination of sharpshooting skills, [[BulletTime reflexes]] and acrobatics that allow her to evade enemy fire through [[SlideAttack slides]], [[VideoGame dives]], flips and {{Wall Run}}s.

''Severed Steel'' is a [[HeroicBloodshed Stylish]] [[CombatParkour Parkour]] FirstPersonShooter by Greylock Studio, released in 2021. The game's ExcusePlot concerns an agent Steel, who wakes up on a garbage compactor [[AnArmAndALeg with her arm missing]] and tears through hordes of [[MegaCorp EdenSys]] mooks through her combination of sharpshooting skills, [[BulletTime reflexes]] and acrobatics that allow her to evade enemy fire through [[SlideAttack slides]], [[VideoGame dives]], flips and {{Wall Run}}s.

* ArmCannon: At the end of the campaign's first chapter Steel finds a prototype of such and grafts onto the missing arm. It has up to three charges of destructible energy that is cappable of [[EverythingBreaks vaporizing pieces of walls]].
* AttackItsWeakPoint: The game tells you this verbatim in the campaign level that introduces flamethrower-wielding mooks, who have to be shot at the tanks on their back.

* BulletTime: Holding RMB (by default) activates bullet time, which consumes a meter that can be replenished by damaging/killing enemies, even over the limit Steele starts a level with. There's a mutator that brings a longer bullet time meter at the cost of not being able to charged. Unless you have superhuman reflexes yourself in real life, it's pretty much mandatory for the game's "stylish combat" as otherwise everything is moving around way too fast for a normal human to keep up with.
* CallAHitPointASmeerp: The Hot Lava mutator refers to Steel's health as "luck", as in luck for bullets wheezing past her whenver she isn't doing any evasive moves, in a similar vein to ''[[VideoGame/BrothersInArms Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway]]''. The health bar being shaped a bit like a clover adds credence to this.

* DoNotDropYourWeapon: Downplayed, Steel is cappable of snatching most sidearms out of enemies.

* EnemyChatter: The radio chatter of the enemies can be overhead, and their mouth are around [[ClusterFBomb as potty]] as with [[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon the Replica clones]].
* ExplodingBarrels: Handful of them can be found in some of the levels.
* EverythingBreaks: The game features destructible envoriment which can feature up to walls. The ArmCannon (and later a [[ThisIsADrill Cyber Arm Drill]]) is the most effective at showcasing this.
* FastTunnelling: The penultimate level of the campaign transforms Steele's ArmCannon into a short-ranged beam that can pierce through walls, which for the final level she uses to escape outside.

* HandicappedBadass: With her incredrible acrobatics and aiming skills that lets her blast through her opressors without even a scratch, missing her lower left arm proves to be not much of a hindrance in her mission.

* LocomotiveLevel: The game features a level featuring a ''pair'' of trains, and in campaign mode the player is tasked with destroying their controls, after which ''another'', armored train would join in and Steel has to destroy it's engines. The level is also preceeded with the Train Station level. The 3.0 update added one more level of such type.

* OneHitPolykill: Few of the weapons are cappable of this, namely the laser cannon.
* QuickMelee: There is a kick button, which can be used to knock off shields, or [[WallJump climbing up the walls]].

* WallRun: Steel can run in anything that ever classifies as a wall.

* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: From the easiest to hardest: Cold Steel -> Tempred -> [[TitleDrop Severed Steel]] -> Sharpened Steel -> Molten Steel

* LocomotiveLevel: The game features a level featuring a ''pair'' of trains, and in campaign mode the player is tasked with destroying their controls, after which ''another'', armored train would join in and Steel has to destroy it's engines. The level is also preceeded with the Train Station level.

* RuleOfCool: Through Steel's movement mechanics, this game breathes by this trope. The game's executable folder is even named "[=ThankYouVeryCool=]"

* BagOfSpilling: Any gun that Steel holds when she finishes a level is immediately replaced by a different when she enters the next area.

* SpiderTank: The climax of the fifth chapter concludes with a boss fight of such, piloted by [=EdenSys's=] CEO.

* BulletTime: Holding RMB (by default) activates bullet time, which consumes a meter that can be replenished by damaging/killing enemies, even over the limit Steele starts a level with. There's a mutator that brings a longer bullet time meter at the cost of not being able to charged. Unless you have superhuman reflexes yourself, it's pretty much mandatory for the game's "stylish combat" as otherwise everything is moving around way too fast for a normal human to keep up with.

* BulletTime: Holding RMB (by default) activates bullet time, which consumes a meter that can be replenished by damaging/killing enemies, even over the limit Steele starts a level with. There's a mutator that brings a longer bullet time meter at the cost of not being able to charged.