Tears of Metal (v0.13.58591)

A dragon-struck Scottish island becomes the staging ground for a fast, forceful action campaign built around reclaiming home from invaders. Tears of Metal casts you as a frontline hero leading a hardened battalion through a war ignited by the Mother Dragon Stone’s destructive power. The mood is bold and mythic rather than grimly realistic, mixing Celtic-flavored warfare with explosive magical abilities and huge enemy swarms. Whether tackled alone or with up to three friends, every push across the island feels like a desperate attempt to turn a chaotic battlefield into a hard-won victory.

Combat centers on charging into handcrafted combat arenas, cutting through waves of enemies, completing encounter-specific objectives, and keeping your own forces strong enough for the next fight. Several playable heroes offer different approaches to the front line, while powers, Emblems, artifacts, and upgrades let you assemble builds around direct damage, battlefield control, survivability, or team support. More than 100 artifacts create plenty of room for powerful combinations, and recruited troops develop through lasting upgrades and improved skills rather than acting as disposable background units. Between expeditions, the settlement expands with shops, permanent improvements, tougher challenge options, and new ways to prepare for future runs.

Its strongest idea is the blend of character-action spectacle and squad leadership: you are not merely surviving encounters, but building an increasingly capable army around your chosen hero. Over 45 designed environments, hidden secrets, special objectives, unlockable characters, cosmetics, and escalating rewards give campaigns reasons to be replayed beyond a single successful march. Co-op should particularly suit groups that enjoy coordinating builds and carving through dense enemy formations together, while solo players can focus more deliberately on troop choices and long-term progression. Players who like the repeatable buildcraft of roguelites and the crowd-clearing energy of action brawlers should find Tears of Metal a compelling, accessible battlefield to conquer.