Steam, Swords and Sorcery is a forthcoming side-scrolling "beat 'em up" game that will be sure to wow all the nostalgic gaming fans, as it will be using a graphic style of the old animated sprite style. It will also please all the people who remember similar games like Double Dragon or Streets of Rage.
In the beginning, the main character, a young mage called 'Psy', starts off in a countryside field with his best friend, a young female knight called 'Trisha'. Everything is very calm and relaxing, but then a small town in the distance becomes covered in a layer of darkness. When they go to investigate, they find the town infested with mysterious monsters. The player then chooses to play as one of the two characters to play as (or if there are two players, they each select a character) and then they must fight through all the monsters to get to the center of the town. Here, they see the main antagonist, a man in a steam powered suit of armour calling himself 'Tekter'. He then escapes to the next area, leaving a strong boss monster for the player to fight.
Throughout the game, the player will gradually learn more about the three main characters of the game through cut-scenes. Firstly, the player learns that Psy was born in a small village in the mountains. He was an only child who was born with magic, making him to be considered a freak to everyone but his parents. Because of the ridicule, he became depressed and left home at only the age of eight. On his travels, he met a council of mages who took him in and train him more in the use of magic. When he learned all that he could, he left as a lone wanderer to help fight against the monsters that plagued the land.
Alongside this, we learn that Trisha was born into a rich family. For eleven years of her life, she lived in luxury with her parents and two older siblings, until a horde of dragons attack the city. Her mother died in a house fire, her father was carried away by one of the dragons and she was separated from her siblings. In her grief, she searched for shelter at a soldier training camp outside the ruined city, where they let her stay in return for cooking meals and helping to heal the wounded. A few years after, she requested to be trained in sword fighting, to which the training instructor agreed. Only half a year later, she became a near expert in swordsmanship. Because of this, she achieved the promotion to a Knight status.
At about the middle of the game, the player will see a cut-scene of how Psy and Trisha meet and become friends. In this cut-scene, it shows Psy traveling towards a city when he sees Trisha being cornered by monsters. He helps her to fight them off. After both of them return to this town, they become really good friends, to the joy of Psy, who has never had a friend before.
Just before the last level, a cut-scene will play which shows the origins of the mysterious Tekter. In this cut-scene, it turns out that Tekter is Trisha's father, a man originally called 'Carter' who was a famous engineer in steam powered technology. He was presumed dead after being taken away by one of the dragons who attacked his home city. However, when the dragon was flying low over a desert, he slipped from the dragon’s talons and landed on one of the sand dunes. He managed to escape the desert after several days, but both the grief of what he thought had happened to his family and the lack of food and water drove him near to insanity. Once he had crossed the desert, he stole food from a local town and hid away from civilization in a cave. Crazy as he was, he still had his knowledge of steam power. Using this knowledge, he built himself a suit of armour that would allow him to have incredible speed and strength. Also because of his crazed state, he attacked many different towns and cities under the alias of Tekter. His rampage was originally started as a search for his family, but turned once he discovered how powerful and feared he had become. He was also accompanied by steam powered monsters, which were designed to look like evil creatures. When confronted by Psy and Trisha, he does not recognize his own daughter by how much she had grown.
