Metal March: Beginner Experience

About this game

Metal March: Beginner Experience is a free playable preview game of Metal March.
This version game is includes 1 race and 1 region, a total of 2-3 hours of playable time. You'll see the overall flow of the game, the initial strategy, etc.

The full game includes the following!

• CHESS-inspired turn-based strategy game mixed with card collection genres.
  
• (Based on our current updates) Select your troops from 5 races
  
• Race-themed areas
  
• 7 types of unique troops and 10 types of unique magic powers per race
  
• More than 10 types of troops and 20 types of magic shared among troops
  
• More than 40 kinds of relics

The world has turned into complete chaos. The fragile peace between races has shattered and trust is in short supply. As tensions rise and old alliances crumble, all the races are now preparing for an expedition to the World's Roof. Which one of the races will be the first to reach the Roof? Only YOU will be the one to know.



Get ready for an epic adventure to claim the powerful relics atop the World's Roof!
Remember, you must be the first to take over the relics at the World's Roof before others. But beware, time is running out. You must be the first to reach the relics before others.





With the help of the Wandering Wizard, you can briefly monitor the battlefield and control your troops.
You can identify each of your troops with tin dolls with different appearances.



All troops have their own movement / attack patterns.
In addition to the attributes and characteristics of the troop's powers, these movement and attack patterns are also essential factors that you need to consider in strategy.



Thoroughly plan your strategy and win. Effectively win the battle by moving troops where the enemy can't counter-attack and quickly retreating to a position the enemy cannot follow. Strategies like this will matter.

MAGIC can be a key that completes your strategy.

With Magic, you can either protect or strengthen your team. You can also choose a strategy that destroys enemies with magic attacks.

Your magic combination also plays a vital role in the battle. Even within the same collaboration of troops, strategies vary depending on which magic spells you cast and in what order.

There are 4 races that you can select for your troops. Each race has its own strengths and weaknesses.
You can overcome the weaknesses of your race with the skills and magics of other races.

To succeed at the beginning of the expedition, some races need to focus on using their unique strengths while others need to work on overcoming their weaknesses.




There is another way to strengthen your troops and magic skills... RELICS!
RELICS provide special effects and synergies in ways that can't be obtained from other sources.

With relics, you can increase your income during the expedition, add beneficial effects before starting a battle, strengthen certain types of troops & magic powers, and weaken your enemies.

You can only activate a limited number of relics, but you can replace them at any time except during battle.

Choose and use relics according to your needs and circumstances!

Latest news

• Patch Notes·11 Aug 2023Official

  Version 6.0 Update and Official Release!

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43216254/5560ac246e9baeaae7d9c1fc6601b1aec2700235.png With all of the game's foundational content complete, we've moved from Early Access to Official Release! New race Savage Unites has been added. New region Red Mountain has been added. Added 2 new troops from the Relic Guardians from World's Roof. Added 10 new achievements. AI calculation speed has been slightly improved. Added Honor difficulty. In Honor difficulty, enemies are stronger, their troops and magic grow faster, and there's more room for strategic exploration during battle. Fixed an issue that caused text to go out of frame in tip popup. Fixed an issue where cards displayed in the UI would show a few tags. Added 3 Silver Coin Pouches and 3 Crimson Stone Piles to each region. This will hopefully reduce the total number of battles, making them less tiring. ? region can no longer be traversed. We've changed the balance of defense. We hope this will alleviate an issue where units with higher defense felt more valuable. The damage of the Fire Dagger has been recalculated. It now deals about 20% more damage than before. Conflagrate damage increased by 30%. Intelligence has been changed to only increase the effectiveness of Destruction magic cards. Instead, it now increases the effectiveness of Weapon cards by 2% for every increase in Strength. The effectiveness of Resurrection has been increased by 100%. While many other resurrection-related effects have been increased, we still haven't balanced this card. Death Bringer's Raise Dead troop summon reduced from 21 to 15. All weapons have had their damage increased by approximately 10%. Previously, we thought it was efficient because of the large number of weapons that could be used multiple times, so we concluded that the weapon cards were actually handicapped because they tended to stiffen the hand, even though they were 10% weaker than normal destruction spells.
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• Patch Notes·2 Jun 2023Official

  Version 5.0 Update

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43216254/728ddcea99a850b85e4e9268e66af7d0302b6d3a.png New region The World's Roof added. Added Endings. Added a dictionary to the main menu. The dictionary contains a list of units and spells for each race. Added region capture rewards. Each time you capture a region, you get a buff that lasts. Added a 4th line to talents. Added 5 new Encounter events. Fixed some encounter-related errors. Improved troops with the same speed to be able to shuffle their order internally over turns. Six new achievements have been added. One has been added to the Beginner Experience. Changed troop skills to be available when the leader is silenced. Fixed an issue where tooltips would sometimes not change color when their damage was changed by buffs or debuffs. Fixed the description of the Pulsating Rune. Fixed an issue where the AI would sometimes ignore taunts. Wagons have been changed to appear earlier in the region. The troop replacement screen has been improved to allow for drag-and-drop troop placement changes. Fixed an issue with the Slave Trader and Altar of Sacrifice not reflecting troop numbers correctly. Fixed an issue where certain josa were not substituted correctly in the Korean environment. Rewards have been rebalanced across the board. Experience gain has been increased, and encounter rewards have been adjusted across the board. Leadership growth per leader rank has been increased from 50 to 60. As the player's growth has been adjusted, the enemy's growth has also been increased. Silver Mine income has been reduced again by 20%. The purchase cost of higher tier troops has been reduced by 4% to 18%. Some underused talents have been buffed. The amount of troop rewards from the encounter "Jail" has been changed to be based on your leadership, not the enemy's. Groove Keeper damage increased from 6-11 to 8-14. Regeneration effectiveness reduced by 20%, but duration increased from 2 to 4. Entangling Roots level 1 duration increased again from 1 to 2, and cost...
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• Patch Notes·11 Apr 2023Official

  Version 4.2 Update

  The AI has been improved to use Wait and Defense. However, we only use simple conditions for now, in case battles get too long. We'll tweak this further as we get more feedback. Fixed a bug where the upgrade status view was displayed on the troop detail screen. Fixed an issue where magic was duplicated on some encounters. The cost of Massive Purification has been increased by 1. Animate Dead cost increased by 1. Sacrosanct cost reduced by 3, but duration reduced by 1. Into the Dark cost reduced by 1, but the number of areas of effect has been reduced. Cleric's Healing Aura effectiveness has been increased and changed to revive allies for an amount equal to the excess healing. Level 1: Increased from 8 to 12 Level 2: Increased from 8 to 13 Level 3: Increased from 9 to 15 Sniper maximum damage has been reduced, but health and armor have been slightly increased. Physical Armor: increased from 10 to 15 Magic Defense: increased from 12 to 20 Level 1: Max damage reduced from 95 to 86, health increased from 56 to 62 Level 2: Maximum damage reduced from 104 to 94, health increased from 62 to 68 Level 2: Maximum damage reduced from 114 to 103, health increased from 68 to 74 Forest Elf racial passive "Circle" effectiveness increased from 3% to 5%. Combustion damage increased by nearly 20%. The amount of troops replenished from each store and camp has been reduced by 25%. The amount of troops that can be replenished from a wagon at once has been reduced by 60%. Demolition talent effectiveness increased from 2/4/6% to 3/6/9%. Premeditation talent effectiveness increased from 3/6/9% to 5/10/15%. Leadership growth per leader rank increased from 40 to 50. Enemy growth has been adjusted. They are now roughly 20% stronger as a simple average. All income has been increased by approximately 20% on average. Magic damage that scales with intelligence increased from 3% to 5%. We tested the proposal to make enemy positions invisible during initial deployment, but surprisingly it had littl...
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• Patch Notes·24 Mar 2023Official

  Version 4.1 Update

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43216254/4f391c80d0ddc3bd232f87ceb29afaf4b7a9d508.png The roadmap has been updated. Since most of the core elements we envisioned updating in the Ascending From The Underground update have already been updated in other updates, it became awkward to maintain the size of one major update, so we thought it would be a good idea to merge the remaining parts into the other remaining major updates. Added the feature to preview the next grade in the cards preview pane. Your health is displayed with a shield value. Fixed an issue where penetration attack passive descriptions were not displayed. Fixed an issue where enemies always displayed as level 3 in the battle results window. Fixed an issue where stat points on talents were not being applied correctly. You can now right-click to release the relics. Fixed an issue where hovering over the location of a cloaked target would highlight the troop icons in the queue. Leader experience is now displayed in your campsite and shops. Forest Dweller has been renamed to Forest Nymph. The Deep Forest Beast has been renamed to Grove Keeper. The Royal Guard has been renamed to Nature's Champion. Guardian of Forest has been renamed to Treant. Some localstrings have been changed. Added or changed the category of some units. World Eater : changed from Beast to Eldrich. Forest Nymph, Treant : Added the categories Plant. Fire Wisp, Lava Giant : Added the categories Non-Living. Arcane Reinforcement talent effectiveness increased from 4% to 8%. Swift Mend talent effectiveness increased from 6% to 12%. Recovery from all cards increased by 30%. Wolf Rider leadership requirement increased from 90 to 102. Level 1 damage reduced from 35-42 to 30-36. Level 2 damage reduced from 38-46 to 33-39. Level 3 damage reduced from 42-50 to 37-44. Twisted Being leadership requirement increased from 100 to 105. Level 3 damage reduced from 26-38 to 24-32. Skeleton Mage's attack type changed from pure damage to magic damage. Level 1 damage incre...
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• Patch Notes·16 Mar 2023Official

  Version 4.0 Hotfix 2 Update

  Added whether the camping buff is active to the expedition screen. Fixed an issue where buffs gained from random encounters would disappear faster than their duration. Fixed an issue where reserve troops would sometimes disappear when dragging them. Fixed an issue with the encounter "Unfinished Thesis". Fixed an issue with the + not showing in the card names in the encounters.
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