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IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator

IRON NEST is a brutal dieselpunk heavy-artillery game where you dominate the battlefield through a colossal war machine. Take map measurements based on the received coordinates, strain the hydraulics, and gunlay the cannons to unleash devastating blows ⟹ Will you obey High Command, Operator?

Developer
Nick Nieuwoudt, Dominik Latos
Publisher
Nick Nieuwoudt, Dominik Latos
Franchise
IRON NEST
Release date
Aug 6, 2026
Store page updated
Sep 8, 2026
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

89.5/ 100

Based on 373 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 2,656
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 13,876
“fun game with no performance issues and customization options”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.77
Strategy +2.67
“wants complex ballistics calculations with projectile physics, drag, and manual firing solutions” (28)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+1.90
World +3.47

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+0.11
Variety -0.79
“little complexity introduced, most missions repetitive efficiency tests” (21)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+3.60
Audio +3.58
“machine sounds crank, whine, click; satisfied feeling pulling lever for best THUNK/BOOM” (46)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+1.77
Playing together -0.29

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-0.39
Monetization +1.96

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
+0.20
Developer support +1.66

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by week · major update
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Aug 6, 2026Sep 17, 2026
Reviews
per day · 2,627 reviews, peak 277/day
0250500
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 368 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English32%
  • Chinese15%
  • Russian15%
  • Spanish7%
  • Japanese6%
  • French5%
  • Other20%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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