Steel & Steam: Episode 1 (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Steel & Steam: Episode 1

The desert plague is spreading from the East: a reminder of a destructive past. Man has evolved since the wars of old, creating new ways to combat this deadly expanse. Using Steel and Steam, man fights this…

80 16 July 2014 PEGI 12

What Steel & Steam: Episode 1 is

Steel & Steam: Episode 1 is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Red Meat Games and released in 2014. It was published by Digerati Distribution. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an PEGI 12 age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The desert plague is spreading from the East: a reminder of a destructive past. Man has evolved since the wars of old, creating new ways to combat this deadly expanse. Using Steel and Steam, man fights this terror, as well as the monsters that spawn from its touch. Now covering half the continent of Terra Corpus, the desertís slow and steady hunger is threatening to consume and corrupt all life in the world. Some of the desperate seek out legends of the past: elemental guardians said to sleep inside the planet. Once resurrected, these powerful beings can be controlled, and guided to stop the desert. The legends speak of a chosen few who have the ability to tame these elemental beings and…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are drama and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Steel & Steam: Episode 1 holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or faster, 512 MB RAM and Video 1024x768 or better video resolution. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Steel & Steam: Episode 1 launched on 16 July 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove and Divinity: Original Sin. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Divinity: Original Sin.

Steel & Steam: Episode 1 — frequently asked questions

When did Steel & Steam: Episode 1 come out?

Steel & Steam: Episode 1 was released on 16 July 2014 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Steel & Steam: Episode 1?

At minimum, Steel & Steam: Episode 1 needs Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or faster, 512 MB RAM, Video 1024x768 or better video resolution graphics, 400 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Steel & Steam: Episode 1?

The PC version needs about 0.4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("400 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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