Tales of Metal

The game

Tales of Metal is a 2D top-down expedition game in which you explore a world entirely made of metal.

In a frozen and hostile world live the Ilmari, people of metal and heat, secluded in a city-state built around a heat well. You control the first and only ship able to navigate the dangerous frozen plains to explore the world, discover new ecosystems, and collect new resources. Glory and fortune await you — if the results of your expeditions will satisfy the leading factions of the city. However, beware, you interact with a dynamic world that evolves depending on your actions. And the factions will observe your every step...

How far will you go? Will you comply until the end?

Control a ship and explore the world!

You are the captain of a magnetic ship. You have to reach what no Ilmari has ever seen, equipped with your courage and your trusty harpoon. Be bold. Be brave. And be careful not to freeze to death...

Dynamic ecosystems

In Tales of Metal, you discover ecosystems that will change depending on your actions! You will have to interact, try, fail, and retry until you understand how each of them works and what you can or really should not do.

The Ilmari

The Ilmari are the only known sentient species in this world. The structure of their metallic bodies gives them a lot of interesting properties. For example:

• They eat metal and can change their composition.
• They can change their shape up to a point, forging tools and clothes on themselves.
• They die if they get too cold since metal is heat-conductive.

Depending on their personality and tastes, Ilmari can look really different from one to another.

The factions

There are five factions leading the city-state, each with its own agenda, personalities, and stories to discover.

Choose your fate

Once caught up in a time of progress amidst political intrigues, what will you choose — obedience or defiance? The fate of the city is in your hands, Captain!

Controls and how to play

Download the game via the download button, extract the folder, and click on the exe. file

WASD: move; SD: rotate

Left mouse click: fire the harpoon

Move backwards (S) while your harpoon is on a target: collect the resource

Right mouse click: put back the harpoon

Space: honk

The team

• Game & Sound design: Guillaume Boulliard
• Programming & Technical art: Kémo Deschamps
• 2D art & Concept art: Olena Hostilova
  
• Narrative design & Communication: Théodore Laugée

Tales of Metal has its start as our final project in the master's program "IDE" at Gobelins/ENJMIN, and we continue working on it currently. The demo version presented here is a prototype, and may hugely differ from the final version of the game.