Game overview
Steel Rain
It's the ultimate, strategic SHMUP ReMix! Control TWO combat wings, flick between THREE different formations, and BLAST your way through overwhelming enemy fleets! Liberate planets, build colonies, research tech and skills, craft items, or even play 2p co-op in this unique new indie game.
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Prepare for the ultimate shoot-'em-up / strategy ReMix with RPG elements!
Steel Rain is a truly novel mix of strategy, RPG, and frantic action, with a modern, high velocity shmup core at its center. You get to control 2 wings you can tactically arrange in different formations and firemodes, as you fight your way through an impressive variety of overwhelmingly huge enemy fleets.
Liberate planets, build colonies, research new technologies, and learn new active and passive skills. Construct buildings, and research new combat technologies and skills. Wisely craft items, and play through missions to gather the experience points and cash needed for even more exotic and powerful upgrades.
Never forget to install your shiny new upgrades, construct cunning drone pets, and buy new wings; make your strikes deadlier than ever!
Instantly switch through 3 different wing formations, and combine them with 6 fully customizable firemodes, in order to develop your very own sets of special tactics and strategies for each and every situation; on the spot!
Complete missions and survive epic bossfights on 7 different planets, play randomly generated orbital patrol missions, or design and create your very own stages with the built-in stage editor, as you fight to become a true master of Steel Rain.
Fight for leaderboard positions, get classic rankings, and unlock over 80 achievements in this unique, fun, and taxing new indie game!
Steel Rain is not only frantic. It is a deep and strategic experience too. The game offers impressive gameplay variety, 10 difficulty levels, and a hardcore mode, to let you freely modify your gaming experience. Full and complete gamepad and joystick support are, of course, a given.
Features:
- Frantic Tactical SHMUP Action
Maneuver your wings, shoot, avoid missiles, switch tactics on the fly, and crush the opposition!
- Colonization
Build, defend, and manage your colonies. Conduct crucial research, and generate income.
- Skills Management
Unlock and research new active and passive skills for each of your wings' firemodes.
- Research
Research new technologies and unlock new buildings, skills, drones and much more.
- Upgrades for your Wings
Choose from 6 different categories of upgrades and equipable items for 10 different wings.
- Stage Editor
Create, share, and download new stages for Steel Rain.
- Item Crafting
You can now use your factories and citadels to produce new items, and prototype upgrades!
- Local Coop
Fight together and command drones with a friend in Steel Rain's exciting, brand new 2 player co-op mode!
- Game Modes
New Survival, Campaign and Arcade Modes with alternative upgrade system!
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Windows
Minimum
Minimum:- OS *: Windows XP or above
- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz +
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Min. resolution 1280 x 720
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 120 MB available space
Recommended
Recommended:- OS *: Windows 8.1
- Processor: Intel Core i
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce or Radeon Gen. 6+
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 120 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Gamepad or Joystick
Linux
Minimum
Minimum:- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz +
- Memory: 128 MB RAM
- Graphics: Min. resolution 1280 x 720
- Storage: 120 MB available space
Recommended
Recommended:- Processor: Intel Core i
- Memory: 128 MB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce or Radeon Gen. 6+
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 120 MB available space
Game details Languages, features & support
- Publisher
- PolarityFlow
- Brazilian rating
- l
- Steam Germany rating
- 12
- Achievements
- 82
- Controller support
- full
- Features
- Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, DualShock Controller Support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, Steam Cloud, Stats, Steam Leaderboards, Steam Turn Notifications, Includes level editor, Remote Play Together, Family Sharing
- Languages
- English*, German*, Portuguese - Brazil*, Portuguese - Portugal*
*languages with full audio support - Website
- Official website ↗
- Support
- [email protected] Support site ↗
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features
Can I Play This?
Steam declarations and Valve's Steam Deck compatibility result. Missing data is shown as unknown, never unsupported.
Structured language support (4)
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese - Brazil | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese - Portugal | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Buy Verdict
Not the best time to buy. Price could improve with future sales.
Value Score
Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 72th percentile. Priced as Market at $9.99.
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