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Iron Meat
Iron Meat is a run-and-gun arcade shooter that immerses players in an apocalyptic future overrun by "The Meat," an iron-ravenous mass mutating everything in its path. Blast your way through retro-inspired stages and bosses to uncover the shocking horrors behind secret experiments on the Moon.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Had so much fun playing this!! A true and banging successor of Gunstar Heroes, Contra Hard Corps. The gunplay, the music, the atmosphere all complement each other so good. Absolutely love the boss designs. A train snake monster? yep it got it... A truck scorpion? hell yeah , A…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“I never played Contra, but I definitely see the appeal now! Fun run-n-gun gameplay with a lot of unlockables.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“This 90's kid was brought back to his parents basement, playing midnight resistance, turrican 2 and contra. Absolutely fun game, well worth the price.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 18:27 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
The Deadly, Infectious Properties of The Meat
//INCOMING TRANSMISSION... //EARTH COUNTER INVASION FORCE INTELLIGENCE BUREAU //DISPLAYING LATEST INTELLIGENCE REPORT... This intel file will look at how The Meat infects people and machinery, along w
Big Updates in 2026!
In 2026, Iron Meat is looking forward to at least two major updates. I would like to briefly tell you about one of them today--an update that will introduce several new levels. To be precise, there wi
Incoming Transmission: MAJOR UPDATE #2 is HERE!
Artwork by Maxim Yasko We've been hard at work on the next major content update for Iron Meat, and we're super excited to finally be able to show you what we've been up to! Let's jump right into the M
Achievements Drop #4
From shooting an eyeball, to dodging projectiles from MULTIPLE eyeballs, we're back this week to give you the lowdown on three more achievements: "Concentrate Your Fire!", "Eye See You!", and "...Why?
MAJOR UPDATE #1
INCOMING TRANSMISSION! //Major Update #1 Initializing... We're super excited to release the first major update to Iron Meat! From a new color added to show off when Supercharge is active, to a MIRROR
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action |
| Player tags | Shoot 'Em Up · Side Scroller · 2D Platformer · Platformer · Shooter · Arcade · 2D · Character Customization · Horror · Post-apocalyptic · Controller · Linear (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Polish |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 35 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://ironmeat.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-Bit Processor: Intel Core i5-4300 or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated GPU DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space