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Iron Brigade
Join The Mobile Trench Brigade and protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“A game from a different time... When comedy, character development, and repeat playability were seamlessly blended into one... This game still outshines new games even though its 15+ years old. Buy this, you wont regret it.”
— a player, Steam review · 35 hrs played“Iron Brigade, developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Xbox Game Studios alongside Double Fine, is a genre-blending experiment that fuses third-person shooting with tower defense mechanics into a cohesive, if sometimes demanding, experience. It’s a game that doesn’t…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“♥♥♥♥ I missed this, it runs a bit rough like some older titles like it but the gameplay and art still hold up. Maybe one day we'll get a sequel 🙏”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:40 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Multiplayer is now fixed!
OK! The disconnecting issues are a thing of the past. It took us a long time, sorry about that, we had a really tough time finding out what was going wrong! Thank you so much for bearing with us! The
Multiplayer is now fixed!
OK! The disconnecting issues are a thing of the past. It took us a long time, sorry about that, we had a really tough time finding out what was going wrong! Thank you so much for bearing with us! The
New beta patch available
Thank you all for your help with 1.09 and the generated logs. We've been able to identify some common patterns in them and have released a beta patch with a proposed fix. We're putting this beta up in
New beta patch available
Thank you all for your help with 1.09 and the generated logs. We've been able to identify some common patterns in them and have released a beta patch with a proposed fix. We're putting this beta up in
Soldier! Your Trench needs you!
With the latest update, we have enabled automatic error reporting in order to help us identify multiplayer bugs. More information can be found at http://steamcommunity.com/app/115120/discussions/0/530
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Strategy |
| Player tags | Action · Strategy · Tower Defense · Mechs · Co-op · Third-Person Shooter · Funny · Comedy · Sci-fi · Online Co-Op · Robots · Shooter (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Captions available · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * , German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 23 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.doublefine.com/games/iron-brigade |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP, Vista, or 7 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2 GHz, or AMD Athlon 64 at 2 GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 256 MB NVidia 8800+, ATI 3850+ DirectX®: 9.0c Hard Drive: 1800 MB HD space Sound: DirectX Compatible Sound Card Other Requirements: Broadband Internet connection.