Orbital Speed Studio have announced that their mecha strategy game, Dual Gear, will enter Early Access this month.
Dual Gear is a mix of turn-based strategy and third-person shooter, where players lead a squad of elite mech pilots. Upgrade your characters with new skills and abilities, and customize your team of mechs with loads of different weapons and parts in the hanger before heading out on missions.
You can find the Early Access release date trailer below.
You can find an abridged rundown of the game (via Steam) below:
Dual Gear is the combination between 3D Mech Action Shooting and Turn-Based Strategy Game inspired by the various Classical Japanese Mech Games. With the brand new features to go beyond the traditional retro-mech games. Dual Gear engaged the player to pilots their mechs with the Real-Time Action Shooting while experiencing in the high pressure of Tactical Turn-Based Layers!
Key Features
- Experiencing in The Mech Action Shooting in The Combat Mode! Real-Time controlling your ordering unit with the multiple types of weapons! SMGs, Missiles, and Melee Devices are available for you! Be careful! Every move wouldn’t let you all to take a breath! The Aggressive Real-Time enemies are waiting to blow out your mechs every turn. Let start training the test drive before the mission!
- Manage the team with The Turn-Based Layer! Do it through the extremely high angle map called Tactical View. Before select the chosen unit to roll out, Let’s observing your contact zone and making the efficient management on Turn-Based Combat Style!
- NEMOS Hangar is open now! Tune-Up your mechs with the maximum provided of parts and weapons! Buy, sell, and upgrade the components you want to build your perfect war machines! Your setting will directly affect to any mech performance and pilot style. Before getting in your briefing room, don’t forget to enjoy the coloring module. Spend time a bit to showing your idea on mech decoration work!
- Story-Driven with unique characters like an RPG element! Gain more EXP and WXP from the story mode to unleash the new skills and more levels! The first act will available on the launch of Steam Early Access and more will become through the Early Access Updates!
Story
The story of Dual Gear set in the future of the year 2069, 11 years after the Massive Orbital Incident (MOD). The world has changed to be the place of conflict clusters happen anywhere. Under the orbit pollution effected from The MOD. UNR, the order consisted of eight powerful nations, starts to bring the new military used weapon called THV to joined the defense of the earth orbit from Watchmaker. Tensions between them almost to be the breaking point. The Cluster of Wars began scattering around the world.
To protect the earth, NEMOS established. Most of the young boy and girl expert in piloting the new type of THV call Dual Gear to joined the war of conflict with NEMOS. To stop the Cluster Wars and to stop The Watchmaker!
Dual Gear enters Early Access on July 29th for Windows PC and Mac (both via Steam), and launches 2021 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.