Metrocide is described as a "cyber punk stealth-action shooter." That's quite the mouthful, and one that developers Flat Earth games hopes will keep you coming back for more.
In Metrocide, you play as a contract killer named TJ Trench, and must complete a series of kills of escalating difficulty to earn enough cash to buy your way out of the tyrannical Metro City. The city is split up into three major districts, and players will find dozens of mission variants, weapon types, tools and obstacles in their way. With one-hit kills and a permadeath mechanic, Metrocide was designed to be a relentlessly challenging top-down shooter.
"The original idea was to take a stealth-action game and mix it with the exponential increase in difficulty of an endless runner," explains Leigh Harris, co-founder of Flat Earth Games. "It's gotten far more complex than that now, but the genesis of progressively harder gameplay is there. We've made it very challenging, and as with all our planned games its a blend of concepts we loved from the 90s and modern gaming."
The game is available today on Steam, GOG and a myriad of other sites. If you pick it up before the week's end, you'll get fifteen percent off the game's normal price of $14.99. So, if you've got a sliver of interest in Metrocide, maybe now's the time to strike.
The launch trailer, which we've provided below, offers a brief look at the game's inner workings. It appears to be prety interesting and from what we can tell, the soundtrack is pretty awesome.
Take a peek:
