VGChartz’s Lee Mehr: “Steel Seed finds itself in a strange bind: a high-wire juggling act that equally deserves praise and admonition. To Storm in a Teacup’s credit, it’s genuinely audacious to shift gears from mechanically-light walking sims and smaller experiments to a maximalist stealth-action-platformer confection; at the same time, I wish the team had picked a goddamn lane. Fusing such disparate design tempos for the first time ultimately reveals the weakest link between them, which also in turn partly poisons the experience. Tie that in with a factory-made narrative and aesthetic, and what’s left is a project I’m left to admire more than I can recommend.”
