In Steel Sergeant, you play as Emil, the machine soldier of the future and brainchild of the brilliant (and vaguely criminal) Dr. Freya Spade.

 

Following a mild disagreement between your creator and their government paymasters, you've been powered down, packed away, put up for auction, and shipped off to the highest bidder. However, a mysterious signal downs your plane near a town on the new frontier, setting you loose in a hostile region on the edge of structured society.

 

Make a name for yourself, shape the world, find your old master, or ignore it all and join the rest of the rust and ruin in this casket of the old world.