Iron Brigade
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $2.31/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB NVidia 8800+, ATI 3850+, 1.8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Join The Mobile Trench Brigade and protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace!
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was November 2015. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 68 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 29 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Orcs Must Die! 3 ($29.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ ($8.99, scores 28).
75 from critics against 86 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 343 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 135 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 6.5 hours; clearing it takes 20, which is 3.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
69% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Game has always been good. Played this on the XBox 360, playing it with friends now. Just a simple TD game with a lot of cool guns and trenches. Highly suggest this game if you wanna have something fun to play not by yourself, but with friends as well.
I've been a fan of this game since first discovering it on Xbox ages ago. I've always considered myself a fan of tower defense games and this hybrid genre also satiates the FPS/3PS cravings, to an extent. I love the styling, the story is great, unlocking parts and building out your "Trench" (mech), there's a good variety of weapons (some with fun and interesting special traits), a good variety of enemies, good mix...
"Iron Brigade" is from 2012 in all the best ways. It's goofy and campy in pretty much every way it can think of, and takes it gameplay mechanics very seriously. Some of the balance choices directly related to the player seem a touch odd - I'm not sure why only Engineering Trenches have access to heavy turrets, for instance, but you can get all the way through the main campaign without them. I also really like the...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Iron Brigade scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/115120/iron-brigadeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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