History VideoGame / Steelrising

The game was released on September 8th, 2022 and is available for UsefulNotes/Playstation5, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS and on [=PC=].

* MultipleEndings: Three in total, with the most significant difference being the individual who would become regent to Henri V. Depending on how many side quests the player has completed and how, either the Maquis de Lafayette or Maximilien de Robespierre (if none of Lafayette's quests were done at all) will win the position. If the player did complete Lafayette's quests but [[spoiler:revealed his part in the conspiracy, Mirabeau will become regent instead.]]

* GrapplingHookPistol: The Bishop's Hook, an upgrade Aegis gets for beating the Bishop of the Cité boss.

* GratuitousFrench: Naturally, with the story set in an alternate historical Paris.
* HealThySelf: Instead of the standard HealingPotion, Aegis heals with oil either from vials or a reusable burette.

* AlternateHistory: The premise of the game is basically "what if UsefulNotes/LouisXVI brutally suppressed UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution with a mystically-powered clockwork army instead of fleeing the country like a coward?", and many characters who historically died like [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette]] actually lived to see the monarch getting deposed and a new king put in his place. To make it a three-fer, the player's actions can also avert the Main/ReignOfTerror by installing [[spoiler:the Maquis de Lafayette or Mirabeau]] as regent instead of Maximilien de Robespierre.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Applies in a rather unusual way. Aegis' intricately-drawn makeup and styled hair will remain perfectly spotless regardless of how many times she's smashed into muddy ground, set on fire, or blown up by explosives, regardless of during gameplay or cutscenes.

* AlternateHistory: The premise of the game is basically "what if UsefulNotes/LouisXVI brutally suppressed UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution with a mystically-powered clockwork army instead of fleeing the country like a coward?", and many characters who historically died like Jean-Paul Marat and [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette]] actually lived to see the monarch getting deposed and a new king put in his place. To make it a three-fer, the player's actions can also avert the Main/ReignOfTerror by installing [[spoiler:the Maquis de Lafayette or Mirabeau]] as regent instead of Maximilien de Robespierre.

* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Aegis decides free Athénaïs de Vaucanson from the soul syphoning machine, losing the soul keeping her alive in doing so.]]

* CounterAttack: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin for specific weapons with this trait, which allow Aegis to riposte by activating their special functions in time with the enemy's attack. There are several modules that facilitate this play style as well.

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!Contains examples of the following tropes:

* CombatHandFan: Bladed metal fans are one of the weapon categories available to Aegis, with the Armoured Fans (which have the Block special move) being starting equipment for the Dancer class. They have the second-highest attack speed, Dexterity stat scaling, and Immobilisation buildup of the weapon categories after Claws, and the second-lowest per-hit damage and Impact (on-hit stagger), making them useful for fast, agile gameplay and racking up critical hits without completely giving up on immediate striking power and stunlocking enemies.

* CoversAlwaysLie: A common promotional image used as the game's boxart shows Aegis wielding a Foil and Armored Fan. As these are two separate weapon classes, no such configuration exists in the game proper - the best that can be said is that it might be a nod to the fact that you can swap between two equipped weapons (such as the Armoured Fans and the Foil and Dagger).

* MotiveRant: Louis rants at some length at the end of the game when he is [[spoiler: about to be guillotined]]. He explains that he watched his mom and dad die when he was a kid, his sister when he was not much older, his daughter and then his son when he was king, and he had grown to both hate death and find no pleasure at all in life. So he vowed to beat death and bestow immortality on his subjects.

* BigBad: King Louis the XVI, being the leader of the automat army and a horrible tyrant who sees nothing wrong with terrorizing his kingdom and having his machines slaughter anyone who so much as makes a peep against his regency.

* CombatHandFan: Aegis can equip various types of razor-sharp gigantic metal fans, including the Dancer class' starter weapon, to slice enemy automats to pieces.

* CoversAlwaysLie: A common promotional image used as the game's boxart shows Aegis wielding a Foil and Armored Fan. As these are two separate weapon classes, no such configuration exists in the game proper.

* EvilChancellor: The last person in King Louis' good graces by the time of the game is the Comte de Cagliostro, a mystic intent on advancing his own power and wealth at France's expense. Notably, while he's an absolutely appalling person who makes a habit of encouraging authority figures to engage in greater evil for his own personal gain, he's more of an enabler of existing cruelties and injustices than the true source of villainy in pre-revolutionary France. In particular, he and the king form a fairly balanced BigBadDiumverate.