Steelrising - Marie-Antoinette Cosmetic Pack (DLC)

Let's be clear about what this is: a cosmetic pack for Steelrising, Spiders' action-RPG set in a clockwork-nightmare version of Revolutionary Paris. The base game casts you as Aegis, an automaton built to fight through Louis XVI's mechanical army while the real French Revolution gets crushed in blood and gears. It's an interesting premise, and the Marie-Antoinette Cosmetic Pack exists purely to let you dress Aegis in outfits and accessories inspired by the ill-fated queen herself. That's the whole product. If you were hoping for new story content, additional weapons, a boss encounter with the ghost of Robespierre, or even a new dialogue line, you will be disappointed. The cosmetics themselves are visually coherent with the game's aesthetic. Steelrising leans into an ornate, Baroque-meets-steampunk visual style, and the Marie-Antoinette-themed gear fits that sensibility reasonably well. If you care about how Aegis looks during your runs - and some players genuinely do, especially in a third-person action game where your character is on screen constantly - the pack delivers outfits that feel thematically appropriate rather than slapped together. The quality is on par with what Spiders put into the base game's character design, which is to say competent and stylish without being extraordinary. The bigger question is whether the base game earns the kind of player investment that makes cosmetic DLC feel worthwhile. Steelrising sits in Souls-adjacent territory, with stamina-managed combat, a class system built around weapon archetypes (Bodyguard, Soldier, Alchemist Engineer, and Dancer), and build variety that rewards commitment past the early hours. The narrative has genuine ambition - the alternate-history framing and Aegis's own mysterious origins give the story more personality than a generic fantasy backdrop would. The writing doesn't reach the heights of the genre's best, but it has moments. Combat is divisive, which explains those mixed reviews; the automaton movement and freeze mechanics feel distinct but the whole system has a stiffness that splits players cleanly into those who find it satisfying and those who bounce off it hard. For a cosmetic pack specifically, the value calculation is simple: do you love the base game enough to want to personalize your Aegis playthrough? If you're deep into a second or third run and want visual variety, this scratches that itch. If you're on the fence about Steelrising itself, this DLC is not evidence either way. It adds nothing to the RPG systems, the story, the combat, or the world. It is an outfit pack, evaluated honestly as an outfit pack. Monika, Scout Team