Video games that feature mechs -- pilotable robots meant for battle -- have always been rare. Most of them, from 2023's Armored Core 6 to 2016's Titanfall 2 to the Mechwarrior games of old, are fast-paced combat simulators. Bounty Star , a new mech game that's out now on PC and consoles, slows down the action with a story about starting life anew on the frontier.

Bounty Star, developed by studio Dinogod, still has its share of real-time combat encounters that make up the bulk of the gameplay. But filling the time between all that action are calmer moments, maintaining a desert ranch, from gardening and tending livestock to tuning up a mech. It's in these more mundane stretches that the game's setting sings, with the twanging guitar soundtrack echoing around a dusty barn plopped in the

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