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Iron Brigade cover art

Iron Brigade

Double Fine Productions · 2012-08-13

SteamXboxMicrosoft Store

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

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!

3
playing now
86%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 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

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 32% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 50k–99k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,241 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 11 of 23 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

1502026-08-06 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-07 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-07 23:00 — 4 players2026-08-08 07:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 15 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 6 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.002015-01-012026-08-272015-01-01 — 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 $14.992026-08-27 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

453192026-05-29 — 24 pageviews2026-06-01 — 46 pageviews2026-06-04 — 36 pageviews2026-06-07 — 29 pageviews2026-06-10 — 32 pageviews2026-06-13 — 32 pageviews2026-06-16 — 453 pageviews2026-06-19 — 57 pageviews2026-06-22 — 68 pageviews2026-06-25 — 58 pageviews2026-06-28 — 51 pageviews2026-07-01 — 46 pageviews2026-07-04 — 42 pageviews2026-07-07 — 265 pageviews2026-07-10 — 53 pageviews2026-07-13 — 46 pageviews2026-07-16 — 55 pageviews2026-07-19 — 45 pageviews2026-07-22 — 32 pageviews2026-07-25 — 33 pageviews2026-07-28 — 87 pageviews2026-07-31 — 48 pageviews2026-08-03 — 25 pageviews2026-08-06 — 32 pageviews2026-08-09 — 40 pageviews2026-08-12 — 41 pageviews2026-08-15 — 34 pageviews2026-08-18 — 36 pageviews2026-08-21 — 90 pageviews2026-08-24 — 89 pageviews2026-08-26 — 46 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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