It feels like we’ve had a huge amount of cozy games and roguelites over the past couple of years, and very few in terms of harder RPG-style games. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve had our fair share of soulslikes, but what I mean is that we haven’t had many of those somewhere-in-between games.

Of Ash and Steel is one of those, straying closer to soulslike than cozy, with challenging combat and very little guidance. If that sounds like something you’d enjoy, here’s the quick breakdown.