Metal: Hellsinger - Dream of the Beast

I came into Dream of the Beast already sold on the base game, which is one of the more genuinely clever genre fusions of recent years: a rhythm FPS where your damage multiplier lives and dies by how well you stay on the beat. The question with any DLC this compact is whether it adds texture or just padding, and the answer here is mostly the former. The headliner additions are two new songs. "Dream of the Beast" features Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil, and "Leviathan" brings in Will Ramos of Lorna Shore. Both tracks clock in faster than most of the base game's level songs, sitting at 138 and 143 BPM respectively, which means they genuinely demand more from your trigger discipline. Scabbia's track is relentless from the first bar. Ramos, true to his live reputation, works through the full range from clean singing to guttural roars, and the tempo shift keeps you honest. Neither song feels like a throwaway licensed add-on, they were written for the game and they play like it. The new weapon, the Red Right Hand, is where the DLC earns its mechanical credibility. It's a four-barrel machine gun that fires in rhythmic triplets, with every third burst on a maintained streak doubling its damage output. That sounds simple until you realize the burst cadence interacts with enemy health thresholds in ways that require real adjustment. Stagger timing on tougher enemies changes, and if you're sloppy with your beat-keeping the damage bonus evaporates fast. It takes a few runs to click, but once it does it opens a noticeably different flow compared to the base weapon roster. The three outfits (Dark Devotee, Morning Star, Angel Eyes) are not just cosmetic: they each carry a passive modifier that replaces the default Unknown outfit's effect, giving you shield-on-fury, health regeneration, or max ammo scaling on quick reloads. These are small but real playstyle levers. The Song Selector feature, which launched free alongside this DLC as part of the 1.6 update, quietly does as much for the game's longevity as the paid content does. Being able to slot any unlocked song into any level turns the existing stages into a mix-and-match sandbox. That's not something you're paying for here, but it's worth noting that the DLC's release was the trigger for it, and the two pieces of content work together well. The honest caveat is that Dream of the Beast does not add new levels, new enemies, or new story content. If you came to Metal: Hellsinger for its campaign structure and finished it feeling like the world needed more geography, this won't scratch that itch. What it does is expand the toolbox and the playlist, which is arguably the right move for a game built around replayability and high-score chasing. For players who are already running Torments and hunting leaderboard positions, the faster BPM tracks and the Red Right Hand's burst mechanic add genuine replay value. For players who bounced off the base game, nothing in here is a reason to reconsider.

Alex · Scout Team

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