You wouldn’t think that certain genres would NEED a “compelling story” to keep you interested. Something like a vehicular combat title has the inherent hook of…well…destroying everything with cars. What more could you need? Well, the team at Mad Mechs Inc., alongside Indie.io, wanted to give you more with Mad Metal, which is out right now on Steam. In it, you’ll play a man trying to both stop a mechanical invasion of the United States while also trying to save his daughter. Think you can make that all happen? If so, check out the breakdown and trailer below:

“While most auto-combat shooter games ask how hard you can hit, Mad Metal asks what you want gone. Dead Aim slows time mid-chase, and a fight becomes a choice rather than a contest. Take the fuel tank, and the explosion finishes the job for you.

Take a wheel, and the car that was hunting you a second ago slides into whatever is closest. The enemy is built the same way you are, so the thing bearing down on you has a tank and a wheel and a driver too, and it is closing while you decide which one you want gone. You don’t have to do it alone, and there are multiple game modes to experience.

Extraction drops two players into escalating waves that end in a boss fight and an airlift that only arrives if they reach the zone; open-world invasion puts you in a stranger’s game where the only real decision is the one you make on arrival, and deathmatch strips it back to a 1v1 with nothing to work out at all. Ranked and unranked MMR matches players of similar skill, so the fight is as casual or as serious as you want it.

Driving all of it is the campaign: eight voiced and narrated missions that follow Jack through an America where the machines no longer kill people, converting them instead into something built to inherit what is left. His wife is already gone, his daughter is still out there, and the further he goes looking, the harder the story gets on him about what he is turning into.”

We’re pretty sure you’re already sold right now. However, if you want to know even more about the game, check out these key features:

• DISMANTLE ENEMY VEHICLES WITH DEAD AIM by slowing time and targeting individual components, taking off a fuel tank, a wheel or a door rather than wearing down the whole car.
• DRIVE THROUGH A NARRATED CAMPAIGN Take the wheel and fight your
  way through an America where the machines abduct rather than kill, in search
  of a daughter they have already taken.
• SURVIVE EXTRACTION IN CO-OP against escalating waves that end in a boss fight and an airlift that only arrives if you reach the zone.
• INVADE ANOTHER PLAYER’S OPEN WORLD and decide on arrival whether to turn up as friend or foe.
• FIGHT 1V1 DEATHMATCHES with ranked and unranked MMR matching players of similar skill for casual or competitive play.
• BUILD THE CAR YOU WANT from nine base vehicles and more than eighty attachments, each altering how the vehicle sounds and handles, with a full Create Your Own Car builder and mid-run augments that push a build somewhere unplanned.
• PLAY ON STEAM DECK with full gamepad support.

So, if you got the need for speed, or destruction, check out the game today!