MERCZ

In one line

MERCZ is a mech combat game where you don't fly the mech: you run the mercenary company that does.

In a paragraph

It's the year 3200. Corporations own the twelve star systems around Earth, and when they can't settle a dispute in a boardroom, they hire mercenaries. In MERCZ you run one of those companies: you take the contracts, fit the mechs, hire the pilots and pay for every scratch they bring home. The fights are first-person, from the cockpit of a war machine with a torso that turns independently of its legs, heat to manage and armor that comes off piece by piece. A tactical mode pauses the fight to command the whole lance. Between drops, the damage stays: repairs cost credits and days, salvage pays some of it back, and debt is always one bad contract away. MERCZ is inspired by MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries.

Features

• First-person mech combat with independent torso and legs, heat, fire groups and localized damage
• A tactical mode to pause the fight and command a lance of up to four mechs
• A mercenary company to run: contracts, pilots, repairs, salvage and debt
• A mech bay to fit weapons and equipment slot by slot: 106 modules, sidegrades rather than tiers
• Twelve real star systems within a dozen light years of Earth, starting with the Moon, Mars and Earth
• A ship you name yourself, home between fights

The demo

The free demo covers the company's first contracts on the Moon, at Rupes Recta (the Straight Wall): the dropship, the mech bay, the market, salvage, the simulator and the starmap.