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A stranded nomad explores and fights across an overgrown megastructure, following clues toward a way out.
Released 21 Mar 2025
Explore a Vast Megastructure
Double-Jump Across Ruins
Find Hidden Side Routes
Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game.
Developed by Tinerasoft · Published by Tinerasoft
You play as a nomad whose traveling mech breaks down inside an immense, overgrown megastructure. Stranded in its hostile wilds, you explore its ruins and follow a lead connected to a possible way out.
Travel through industrial structures, natural spaces, and the remains of past civilizations. Explore optional routes, search for clues and supplies, solve environmental puzzles, and use double jumps to cross gaps and reach higher paths.
Combat encounters punctuate the exploration. You use a small arsenal and grenades, while a body-part injury system makes damage affect your condition; health and injuries can be managed with items and treatment stations. Gameplay modifiers let you adjust aspects of a run.
Players who praise Metal Garden most often point to its atmospheric, enormous megastructure and the sense of discovery created by exploring its environments and hidden routes. Reviews also frequently appreciate its visual style and suggestive worldbuilding, while some enjoy the movement and old-school shooter feel. Opinions on combat are more mixed, and several players wish the short campaign offered more time in its setting.
A nomad wanders the far reaches of an overgrown megastructure, a world built for a forgotten purpose in which countless civilizations have lived entombed for ages.
But when the mech they use to traverse its vast distances breaks, they remain stranded in its hostile wilds beneath a concrete sky.
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Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game that can be finished in a single sitting (one to three hours).
Explore architectual relics of eras near and long gone, meet mysterious and powerful factions that have emerged inside the megastructure, and fight your way through varied encounters in this tight and compact FPS campaign.
A short, tightly designed shooter campaign.
Unique setting filled with massive industrial structures taken over by nature.
Atmospheric visuals inspired by mid-00s games.
Responsive movement and combat.
A sci-fi mystery story revealed through exploration of the game's spaces.
An injury system that asks you to manage not only your health, but also your individual body parts.
Multiple modifiers to change up your playthrough, from health system modifiers to enemy and item randomizers.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 9 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
