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Only Lead Can Stop Them

Only Lead Can Stop Them

Boot up your 486 and launch olcst.exe for this retro fps from an alternate 1990's. Descend into the madness of the Spanish Civil War fighting vicious fascist forces and supernatural monsters. Conquer three action packed episodes wielding machine guns, rifles, flamethrowers and explosives.

Released Dec 9, 2024 Developer Warcry Interactive Publisher Retrovibe Platforms Windows FPSActionShooterFirst-PersonRetro
View on Steam ↗ $9.99 (US · as of 2026-05-18)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

79.6%positive162 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Tl;dr - The game is fun. You should play it. Go shoot some pendejos. Only Lead Can Stop Them is a fairly short, basic wolfendoom-style shooter, where the player is tasked with putting enough lead downrange to poison an entire country's worth of fascists (assuming the bullet…”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Mow fascists and their allies down. Pretty fun if a bit jank. Some things can feel awkward but honestly a good wolfenstein clone with a unique setting. Big fan. For the Republic!”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
Not recommended · 3 found this helpful

“So close, almost good, but with a pervasive feeling of "eh, good enough" throughout everything I've played so far. Episode 1 felt like it needed a bit more polish, but Episode 2 feels so half-baked I might just move on. Several reviews point out better level design in Episode 3,…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

52achievements
2.6%median completion
0.7%rarest: A Hero’s honors
67.7% of players 51.0% of players 49.6% of players 34.2% of players 22.2% of players 20.1% of players 15.9% of players 15.6% of players 14.9% of players 14.8% of players 14.2% of players 12.3% of players 10.0% of players 10.0% of players 9.8% of players 9.1% of players 7.2% of players 6.7% of players 5.6% of players 4.8% of players 4.2% of players 3.1% of players 3.1% of players 2.9% of players 2.9% of players 2.6% of players 2.6% of players 2.2% of players 2.1% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.8% of players 1.8% of players 1.6% of players 1.6% of players 1.5% of players 1.5% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.7% of players 67.7% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
67.7%Well I give up… — Stay in the cell on E1M1 for more than 2 minutes
51.0%Non Shall Hide! — Kill all enemies in a level
49.6%I don’t need saving — Complete an entire level without saving once
Rarest badges of honor
0.7%A Hero’s honors — Hidden achievement
0.9%Only the dead have seen the end of war — Traverse 300 chambers in the Endless Dungeon
0.9%Critter Splitter — Kill 1000 innocent critters over all playthroughs

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 17, 2025
Get your Steam Trading Cards!

Hello everyone! Only Lead Can Stop Them now features Steam Trading Cards with characters and enemies from the game. We also prepared special profile backgrounds and emojis for you to unlock as rewards

Apr 29, 2025
Patch #4: Introducing Custom Difficulty

Hey everyone, We’re back with another patch for Only Lead Can Stop Them ! This time we’re introducing a brand new feature: Custom Difficulty Designer which lets you adjust various aspects of the game

Jan 27, 2025
Patch #3 is live: Fixes across the board

Hey everyone, We’re back with another exciting patch for Only Lead Can Stop Them ! This time we’ve prepared a host of audio tweaks, especially for the shotgun, gameplay improvements, and bug fixes. Th

Jan 10, 2025
Dev Update: Launch Month in Review

Hello, soldiers! Only Lead Can Stop Them has now been available for a month, and we thought it’s a perfect time to share some of the highlights since its release. The game was recently recognized as o

Jan 02, 2025
Patch #2 is here: Fixing achievements, improving save system, and more!

Hello everyone, We hope you've been enjoying Only Lead Can Stop Them and thank you for your feedback since the game's launch. As we move into 2025, we're kicking things off with Patch #2, addressing s

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Indie
Player tagsFPS · Action · Shooter · First-Person · Retro · 3D · Old School · Historical · Pixel Graphics · Military · Singleplayer · Indie (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Includes level editor · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Simplifie…
Achievements52
Official sitehttps://warcryinteractive.com/games
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Or Later Processor: 2.4GHZ Dual Core Processor Or Higher Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce 9800GT Or Equivalent DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 2 GB available space