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Shattered Steel cover art

Shattered Steel

BioWare · Interplay Entertainment Corp. · 2017-05-03

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

ActionSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Apr 29, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1996 (DOS), Dec 1997 (Mac)

Save your species as you engage in fast-paced mechanized combat in the single-player campaign containing 50 adrenaline-pounding missions and arm your Planet Runner with blazing firepower - over 25 armaments, including gatling guns, guided missiles, fuel-air mortars and plasma cannons.

Shattered Steel is a 2017 Action and Simulation game priced at $9.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (64% of 14 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
64%
positive of 14 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 20:00 UTC (census sample)

Shattered Steel is a mech simulation game developed by BioWare and published by Interplay Productions for MS-DOS in 1996. It was later ported to Mac OS by now-defunct Logicware. It is notable for the deformable terrain effects, and for being BioWare's first developed game.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 75% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 88% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-03

Current store prices

GOG$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.39 at GOG (2013-12-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 24 of 68 observed days · $7.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120172026Week of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 20:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.392015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-11-14 — best price $5.992016-06-11 — best price $2.392016-12-05 — best price $2.392017-08-01 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-03-12 — best price $4.992018-05-17 — best price $3.392018-09-03 — best price $3.392018-11-20 — best price $9.992019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-06-18 — best price $9.992019-11-25 — best price $4.992020-01-20 — best price $9.992020-06-15 — best price $9.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-10-18 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-11-24 — best price $7.992023-01-06 — best price $7.992023-07-04 — best price $9.992023-10-16 — best price $6.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-28 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $7.992024-10-25 — best price $9.992025-02-10 — best price $7.992025-05-15 — best price $7.992025-08-23 — best price $9.992025-10-09 — best price $7.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-08-31 — best price $9.992026-09-08 — best price $9.992026-09-16 — best price $9.992026-09-24 — best price $7.992026-10-02 — best price $7.992026-10-10 — best price $9.992026-10-14 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

70212026-06-01 — 49 pageviews2026-06-05 — 30 pageviews2026-06-09 — 21 pageviews2026-06-13 — 43 pageviews2026-06-17 — 47 pageviews2026-06-21 — 43 pageviews2026-06-25 — 40 pageviews2026-06-29 — 36 pageviews2026-07-03 — 37 pageviews2026-07-07 — 34 pageviews2026-07-11 — 38 pageviews2026-07-15 — 43 pageviews2026-07-19 — 44 pageviews2026-07-23 — 37 pageviews2026-07-27 — 38 pageviews2026-07-31 — 44 pageviews2026-08-04 — 37 pageviews2026-08-08 — 46 pageviews2026-08-12 — 65 pageviews2026-08-16 — 29 pageviews2026-08-20 — 39 pageviews2026-08-24 — 34 pageviews2026-08-28 — 43 pageviews2026-09-01 — 39 pageviews2026-09-05 — 40 pageviews2026-09-09 — 36 pageviews2026-09-13 — 57 pageviews2026-09-17 — 33 pageviews2026-09-21 — 32 pageviews2026-09-25 — 41 pageviews2026-09-29 — 30 pageviews2026-10-03 — 31 pageviews2026-10-07 — 24 pageviews2026-10-10 — 32 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

3DFPSMechsSpace1990'sActionSci-fiShooterFuturisticSimulation

Census log

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

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