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Boiling Steel: Preface

MIROWIN · 2020-01-10

Steam

ActionAdventureFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 09, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

They promised a good job and a bright future. But advertising posters always lie. Instead of a quiet life - war. Instead of a body, a steel shell. Instead of weapons - tools. Thousands of light years from home. You are alone. Nowhere to run. Good luck my friend...

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playing now
78%
positive of 121 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

You are one of many who set off in search of a better life in the distant bastion of scientific progress. Your goal is a colony planet, free from bureaucratic, religious and other radical restrictions. Here they research and freely use industrial teleportation, transfer of consciousness and other technologies prohibited in the inhabited worlds. Factories, power plants, mines and residential complexes of the planet are fully automated. All the dirty and hard work is done by robotic shells controlled by the operator’s mind. It is a high-tech paradise. But here, something went wrong.(Storyline via IGDB)

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  • · Top 66% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.

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Details

WindowsSingle-playerTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

VRFPSIndieActionAdventureFree to PlaySingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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