Iron Core: Mech Survivor is a single-player roguelike top-down action game that combines the shrinking safe zones of battle royale, the strategic elements of tower defense, and the fast-paced gameplay of survivor-like games. The shrinking safe zone limits player movement but can be expanded through mining tasks. Meanwhile, resources are more abundant outside the zone, creating a high-risk, high-reward system that offers a fresh and thrilling experience for fans of roguelike and survivor games.
A Post-Apocalyptic Tale of AI and Humanity
Ever heard a story of AI in a post-apocalyptic world? In Iron Core, AIs have guarded humanity’s last shelter for over a century, waiting for survivors. Each AI has its personality and motivations, but they are united by one mission: to save humanity and rebuild a shattered world—or so it seems. Featuring full voiceovers, rich storytelling, and subtitles, this narrative will keep you hooked.
High-Intensity Roguelike Survivor Action
Take control of advanced AI mechs, wield both melee and ranged weapons, upgrade elemental bullets, unleash devastating artillery strikes, summon laser drones, and trigger massive AoE soundwave attacks. With a variety of powerful skills and dazzling effects, battles fill the screen with chaos. Upgrade through card draws, but only the luckiest players will make it to the end.
Rescue Missions and Mech Progression
Complete exciting missions to strengthen your mech. Destroy mutant nests, rescue and escort human survivors, establish satellite links for advanced weaponry, help rogue labs develop doomsday weapons, or repair broken bridges to rebuild the world. Every mission brings new challenges and rewards.
Reactor, Resource Gathering, and Safe Zones
Under constant attacks from mutants, gather radioactive fuel, deploy mining drones, and transport reactor fuel back to your base. Power up the reactor to activate the climate control system and expand the safe zone. The farther you venture from the zone, the more resources you’ll find—but the risks grow exponentially.
Tower Defense: Use Terrain to Your Advantage
Strategically build various towers to aid your missions. Some towers annihilate enemies, while others slow them down. Smart use of terrain and towers will make even the toughest missions easier to handle.
Launch Content
The initial release will include:
3 Maps
3 Mechs with unique weapon loadouts
5 Types of Defense Towers
20 Enemy Types
3 Boss-Level Elite Enemies
Prepare for a fast-paced, immersive, and strategic survivor-roguelike experience like no other!
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User Reviews
Mostly Positive
100 user reviews
71%
Positive
User #404235english
5 min at review
Not Recommended
I have played this for a grand total of 5 min and 4:30 of that was spent frozen 15 sec spent in an unskippable "deployment animation" and another 10 seconds searching for a crosshair colour change. The last 5 seconds was spent going back into the game frozen from the settings. Man oh man this needs some fucking work.
User #172890english
2 hrs at review
Not Recommended
2.2 hours in. This game is deeply UNsatisfying.
-Upgrade options happen disruptively often
-Non-rare upgrades don't feel impactful
-The mechs have too many stats for the mechs and no actual communication for what they all are. If every stat can be upgraded during play, there are way too many impractical options
-There's way too much going on to have the time to actually navigate on the map unless you're essentially a Korean Pro Starcraft player
-Terrain is far too restrictive and isn't always obvious about it
-For being a big stompy mech with mutant rending weapons...the mutants don't get rent quickly enough after the first few minutes. Is this meant to be a speedrun game? Then describe it as a speedrun game.
The game itself is not worth the $10-11 it costs.
User #278425english
15 min at review
Not Recommended
Crashed 5 times in 10mins of gameplay. First 2 crashes were immediately after you activated the mining well or whatever. That got "solved" by locking FPS to 60FPS. But then I crashed a few mins in, at random. Tried everything (lowered graphics setting, locking FPS to 60, 120). It also seems to want to force you to use dynamic resolution every time you change a different graphic setting. However, the problem is that because it's a different resolution, the click area for all the buttons are slightly off-center if that setting is turned on.. I am running a 3070, so I doubt my GPU was the issue.
Like others on here, I got the same GPU crash dump message. What a waste. I was looking forward to it.. Oh well.
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User #605236english
10 hrs at review
Recommended
A pretty fun blend of roguelike and tower defense—shrinking safe zones actually add a neat layer of tension. A bit rough around the edges but worth a shot
User #653316english
6 hrs at review
Recommended
Mech, survivor and tower defense? with DLSS support? What the hell is this game coming from? Kinda can’t believe how well it works. More of this, please. Hard mode’s brutal for me, and the leaderboard folks are mad,
User #089533english
1 hrs at review
Recommended
The game feels somewhat limited in content with occasional random event variations. It includes a levelling system and solid survivor-style game play. However, it didn't quite resonate with me, as I already have my preferred games in this genre.
User #280538english
2 hrs at review
Not Recommended
Seemed interesting at first, but it gets boring quick.
And then I managed to complete the first mission. Let's see what the second mission has in store... it's the exact same thing. Same objectives, same enemies but reskinned. Played almost 3 hours and it feels like I saw everything that this game has to offer.
Not worth the 10$ I paid for it.
User #527477english
3 hrs at review
Not Recommended
Really fun at first until you realize there isn't much build diversity and the each of the four levels is just a reskin of all the enemies on a new tile set with maybe a few more choke points.
User #576191english
57 min at review
Not Recommended
Gets boring REALLY fast. Very little build variety. Completely unoriginal. Honestly, it's not even worth eight bucks.
