The story is set in the distant future. Humanity has been driven to the Moon by "machine lifeforms" from another world. To take back the planet, the human resistance creates , a specialized unit of android soldiers.

The game fluidly switches between third-person hack-and-slash, side-scrolling platformer sections, and top-down "bullet hell" twin-stick shooting.

You begin as , an efficient and stoic combat android, accompanied by 9S , a curious scanner model. What starts as a standard "aliens vs. robots" war quickly spirals into a haunting meditation on what it means to have a soul, the futility of eternal war, and the search for meaning in a godless world. Gameplay: PlatinumGames’ Combat Mastery