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Iron Brigade

Double Fine Productions · 2012-08-13

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ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Nov 30, 2011 (Xbox 360), Aug 13, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Join The Mobile Trench Brigade and protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace!

Iron Brigade is a $14.99 Action and Strategy game released in 2012, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 1244 reviews).

1
playing now
86%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Iron Brigade, formerly titled Trenched, is a 2011 video game, developed by Double Fine Productions, published by Microsoft Studios as a downloadable Xbox Live Arcade title on the Xbox 360, and released for Microsoft Windows in 2012. Iron Brigade is a hybrid tower defense and third-person shooter game, set after World War I in an alternate reality, where the player controls units from the Mobile Trench Brigade to fight off robotic species called the Monovision. The player controls giant mecha-style robots with weapon and armor customization through a variety of missions set across the world. The game was released on the Xbox Live service on June 22, 2011, with a delayed release in certain European areas due to trademark issues with the title, with its release scheduled for November 30, 2011 but was ultimately released on December 1, 2011 under the alternate name Iron Brigade. The name of the title was updated worldwide to Iron Brigade alongside the European release.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 49 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~6/week).
  • · Review velocity up 75% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 50k–100k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,244 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2015-11-25) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 16 of 26 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920182026Week of 2018-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1502026-09-14 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 6 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 12 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 11 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 7 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 11 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 3 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 5 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2632Aug 2012Aug 2026Aug 2012 — avg 263 · peak 702Jan 2013 — avg 15 · peak 75Jun 2013 — avg 9 · peak 28Nov 2013 — avg 4 · peak 33Apr 2014 — avg 2 · peak 9Sep 2014 — avg 2 · peak 11Feb 2015 — avg 4 · peak 15Jul 2015 — avg 16 · peak 44Dec 2015 — avg 24 · peak 77May 2016 — avg 6 · peak 32Oct 2016 — avg 5 · peak 20Mar 2017 — avg 5 · peak 19Aug 2017 — avg 9 · peak 42Jan 2018 — avg 8 · peak 42Jun 2018 — avg 7 · peak 36Nov 2018 — avg 7 · peak 31Apr 2019 — avg 3 · peak 14Sep 2019 — avg 3 · peak 14Feb 2020 — avg 4 · peak 19Jul 2020 — avg 5 · peak 20Dec 2020 — avg 5 · peak 24May 2021 — avg 5 · peak 16Oct 2021 — avg 4 · peak 19Mar 2022 — avg 4 · peak 20Aug 2022 — avg 5 · peak 17Jan 2023 — avg 7 · peak 26Jun 2023 — avg 7 · peak 26Nov 2023 — avg 5 · peak 19Apr 2024 — avg 3 · peak 14Sep 2024 — avg 4 · peak 20Feb 2025 — avg 4 · peak 19Jul 2025 — avg 4 · peak 14Jan 2026 — avg 6 · peak 33Jun 2026 — avg 8 · peak 27Aug 2026 — avg 5 · peak 21
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$0.002015-01-012026-10-082015-01-01 — best price $5.092015-06-30 — best price $2.992015-10-02 — best price $3.742016-01-15 — best price $2.992016-05-10 — best price $5.092016-11-23 — best price $1.492017-01-26 — best price $14.992017-08-23 — best price $14.992017-12-21 — best price $1.492018-05-10 — best price $3.742018-08-30 — best price $2.992018-11-20 — best price $3.742019-01-04 — best price $14.992019-05-23 — best price $14.992019-09-12 — best price $14.992019-12-19 — best price $3.742020-05-01 — best price $7.492020-08-28 — best price $7.492020-11-25 — best price $7.492021-06-24 — best price $7.492022-01-05 — best price $14.992022-05-24 — best price $14.992022-12-22 — best price $4.492023-03-23 — best price $14.992023-06-22 — best price $14.992023-11-10 — best price $14.992024-02-08 — best price $3.742024-06-23 — best price $14.992024-09-27 — best price $14.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-08-14 — best price $2.992025-12-03 — best price $14.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-06-15 — best price $14.992026-09-03 — best price $0.002026-10-08 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

453242026-05-29 — 24 pageviews2026-06-02 — 41 pageviews2026-06-06 — 35 pageviews2026-06-10 — 32 pageviews2026-06-14 — 44 pageviews2026-06-18 — 107 pageviews2026-06-22 — 68 pageviews2026-06-26 — 46 pageviews2026-06-30 — 77 pageviews2026-07-04 — 42 pageviews2026-07-08 — 106 pageviews2026-07-12 — 40 pageviews2026-07-16 — 55 pageviews2026-07-20 — 53 pageviews2026-07-24 — 39 pageviews2026-07-28 — 87 pageviews2026-08-01 — 43 pageviews2026-08-05 — 28 pageviews2026-08-09 — 40 pageviews2026-08-13 — 38 pageviews2026-08-17 — 37 pageviews2026-08-21 — 90 pageviews2026-08-25 — 53 pageviews2026-08-29 — 38 pageviews2026-09-02 — 154 pageviews2026-09-06 — 102 pageviews2026-09-10 — 61 pageviews2026-09-14 — 51 pageviews2026-09-18 — 36 pageviews2026-09-22 — 68 pageviews2026-09-26 — 58 pageviews2026-09-30 — 78 pageviews2026-10-04 — 43 pageviews2026-10-07 — 37 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
68.6%
earned "Mobile Trench Recruit"
19.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions availableSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play on TV

5 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox 360 (Xbox)37,8413%23
Steam (Steam)3,6472%23
GFWL (Xbox)9347%23

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

Co-opFunnyMechsActionComedyRobotsSci-fiShooterStrategyOnline Co-Op

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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