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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

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.

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 10:00 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

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 95% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.99-20%
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 15 of 30 observed days · $7.60 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.392015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — 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 $9.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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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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