24 Chapters · 5 Acts
Campaign
Follow Dr. Sanjay Krishnamoorthy and the Biomechanical Resistance through a complete story of grief, atonement and found family against Lord Kael’s AI empire.
The Game
Outnumbered?Never.
Mercenary Planet: Ash & Steel is a third-person sci-fi action RPG. A grieving scientist and the five living weapons he built fight a thirty-year-old AI empire across post-apocalyptic South India, where every creature’s flaws are earned into strengths.
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The Creator
Vijayasarathi
Vijayasarathi
Rajasekaran
StorytellerGame Designer3D ArtistEntrepreneur
Vijayasarathi Rajasekaran is a storyteller, game designer, 3D artist and entrepreneur with deep experience in animation, gaming and VFX. His passion lies in building worlds that are unconventional, cinematic and emotionally driven.
With Mercenary Planet, he brings a lifelong vision to life, fusing biomechanical imagination with a uniquely Indian sense of place, survival and resilience.
How You Play
One story. Six bodies.
Real-Time Switching
Six Playable Identities
Play as Sanjay or any of his five bio-mechs (Viper, Striker, Hyena, Cancer and H2borg), each with its own body, camera and combat kit.
Build → Deploy → Adapt → Upgrade → Redeploy
The Core Loop
Build a creature, send it in, watch it fail in a way that teaches you who it is, then bring it back stronger.
Progression
Flaws earned into strengths
Progression follows the story, not a grind. Each creature’s flaw shows up in play before it’s fixed, and every fix is something you do. Understand a creature better and it gets stronger.
- Build-defining choices at every creature’s first activation
- Flaws revealed in the field, fixed in dedicated upgrade missions
- Salvage and research data for optional gear
- Trust with Colonel Andrew, Freya and Priya that shapes your story
World
A world never seen
A semi-open world built on real Tamil Nadu landscapes and temple architecture, seen through a post-apocalyptic lens. From the cave laboratory beneath Megamalai, explorable regions lead to story missions like Outpost Sigma and the Ancient Temple Complex.
- Megamalai Cave Laboratory: your home base and upgrade hub
- Explorable regions between story-gated missions
- Environmental storytelling in every ruin
Arsenal
Fully equipped
Select a weapon to inspect. Dr. Sanjay’s prototypes, salvaged Nexus tech and field-built arms.
Disruptor · Area of Effect
Agni Blazer-555
Dr. Sanjay’s secondary weapon. A charge-based burst that deals no damage but disables AI units in the area for eight seconds. Three charges.
System Requirements
Prepare your rig
Preliminary targets — final specifications will be confirmed before launch.
Minimum · 1080p / 30fps
- OS — Windows 10 64-bit
- CPU — Intel Core i5-8400 / Ryzen 5 2600
- RAM — 16 GB
- GPU — GTX 1660 / RX 5500 XT (6 GB)
- Storage — 70 GB SSD
Recommended · 1440p / 60fps
- OS — Windows 11 64-bit
- CPU — Intel Core i7-10700 / Ryzen 7 3700X
- RAM — 32 GB
- GPU — RTX 3070 / RX 6800 (8 GB+)
- Storage — 70 GB NVMe SSD
Wishlist
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