Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics
Ignited Steel is a mech roguelike turn-based-tactics game. Manage a team of overheating old-tech mechs, more heat means more vulnerability and damage! Unravel the galaxy’s story as you travel from node to…
Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics is an indie developed by Yokaicade, released 9 March 2022 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics is
Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics is an indie game developed by Yokaicade and released in 2022. It was published by Meteorbyte Studios. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
FEATURES: Aiming to fulfill its expansion instinct, humanity created an A.I. which controls and manages all necessary resources to expand the human race throughout the galaxy. Soon, a fatal flaw in the A.I. "PharOS" code was discovered: it could not and would not stop expanding. With the hope to halt PharOS’ expansion, the human race depends on "The Ignited Steel” program, a plan reliant on outdated technology which PharOS cannot control. Old Mechs from past wars are now humanity’s only hope. OVERHEAT: Attacking and moving mechs requires energy and can overheat the mech. If overheated, mechs output more damage while being more vulnerable to enemy attacks. A key element to gameplay is…
How it plays
Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Ignited Steel: Mech Tactics launched on 9 March 2022, within three weeks of Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Tunic and Ghostwire: Tokyo. It arrived 9 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo.
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