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Tears of Metal shipped with three playable heroes: Wallace, Ruadh Stonecrusher and Brienne. Two further heroes appear in the game but are not yet obtainable.
Tears of Metal is a medieval hack-and-slash co-op roguelike developed and published by Paper Cult, a Montreal-based indie studio. It entered Early Access on PC on July 22, 2026 for US$24.99, and sold 100,000 copies in its first five days.
Tears of Metal entered Early Access on July 22, 2026 on PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store for US$24.99, with PC Game Pass on day one. An Xbox Series X|S version is targeted for later in 2026.
Tears of Metal is a hack-and-slash roguelike in which players fight through waves of enemies across handcrafted battlefields, building powerful loadouts from artifacts and upgrades while managing a permanent Scottish battalion.
The free Tears of Metal demo covered the game's first Act and ended with the boss Gilles the Hog. Released in October 2025 and played more than 250,000 times, it was withdrawn around the July 2026 Early Access launch.
Tears of Metal is developed and published by Paper Cult, an independent studio founded in 2014 in Montreal, Canada. The Early Access launch sold 100,000 copies in five days.
Tears of Metal is set on a Scottish island following the catastrophic Dragon Stone Meteor event, which brought waves of invaders and supernatural powers to the island's shores.
PC system requirements for Tears of Metal on Windows, as listed on the Steam store page.
Tears of Metal supports online co-op for up to four players and cross-play between the Steam and Microsoft Store builds, with health-based revives since August 2026 and a beta branch that keeps cross-play matched to the Game Pass version.
A build-by-build record of Tears of Metal's Early Access patches, from the day-one cross-play hotfix through the mid-August networking and revive update.
The Tears of Metal original soundtrack was composed by SIDE Montreal, with four credited composers and a heavy metal score built around the game's Scottish setting.
Tears of Metal ships with 89 Steam achievements, plus an achievement set on the Microsoft Store version.
The bosses, elites and enemy types confirmed in the Tears of Metal Early Access build, drawn from the shipped game and its patch notes.
Companions are the allied characters who march alongside the hero in Tears of Metal, assembled from the War Preparations screen. Aodh, the Vigil is the first companion Paper Cult has named.
