Chilean studio Vitro Games announced today that their independent top-down adventure shmup, Defenders of Ekron, will be released on PS4 and Steam on July 11. Marking the developer/publisher's first major console release, Ekron will feature free-roaming exploration, mixed melee combat and a hard rock soundtrack from Action Replay.

In Defenders of Ekron, players take the role of Eneas, a cadet working to be a mech pilot who is thrust into an experimental program to protect the world from a rogue group of pilots.

Check out a gameplay trailer below: