{"id":1577186,"date":"2026-05-12T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Us4qS8MNwhVvJKwBCgwXnK"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:14:30","slug":"one-of-the-best-rated-games-on-steam-this-week-is-an-action-platformer-where-you-can-parry-a-giant-industrial-digger-with-a-chainsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/one-of-the-best-rated-games-on-steam-this-week-is-an-action-platformer-where-you-can-parry-a-giant-industrial-digger-with-a-chainsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the best rated games on Steam this week is an action platformer where you can parry a giant industrial digger with a chainsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If there’s one thing I know about human nature, it’s that we have a universal affection for a giant, derelict megastructure. Who among us, when presented a hauntingly massive brutalist shape, isn’t possessed by a profound, inchoate yearning to clamber all over it like a sort of reverent bug?<\/p>\n

Fulfilling that fundamental drive is the basis of Motorslice, an action platformer that released on Steam<\/a> last week and earned a very warm reception. It also, coincidentally, fulfills the other <\/em>fundamental human drive, which is the urge to carve into giant hostile machinery with a chainsaw.<\/p>\n

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I should note at this point that I’m not an expert in human psychology.<\/p>\n

In Motorslice, you play as P, a slicer tasked with a routine job of carving up hostile autonomous industrial equipment (as you do). Unfortunately, it seems that the massive structure she was sent to clear out is even more <\/em>huge than it should be. I’m led to believe this is a problem, despite the fact that having more of an ominous megastructure to explore is something nobody has ever complained about.<\/p>\n

P’s task then becomes solving the mystery of the megastructure by battling supersized heavy machinery in single combat while using her chainsword as a parkour implement. You can parry a giant industrial crane. Videogames are, impossibly, still pretty cool sometimes.<\/p>\n

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Our Harvey Randall was pretty fond of Motorslice’s demo<\/a> during Next Fest, and its launch players seem to agree. Since launch, it’s drawn over 2,200 reviews on Steam\u201488% of which are positive, earning it an admirable Very Positive rating. “If your forklift certification has been rejected,” one reviewer writes<\/a>, “this game is perfect for you.”<\/p>\n

Some of those enthusiastic reviewers do mention that Motorslice launched with an amount of jank, however, but its developer has already pushed a patch<\/a> addressing two of its most pressing bugs and insists that they are “slicing bugs rn” and will remain so for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

Motorslice is available now on Steam<\/a>, but if you want to try before you buy, there’s a demo available, too.<\/p>\n

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