Boiling Steel: Preface
Released Jan 2020
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...
76% positive · 120 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Boiling Steel: Preface is a free-to-play mini-version of the full game Boiling Steel, released on January 10, 2020. It serves as a standalone preface/demo to the main game. A developer news post from March 6, 2020 confirms that the full version of Boiling Steel launched separately on Steam, explicitly noting that "Earlier the free mini-version Boiling Steel: Preface was released on Steam." This establishes Preface as a deliberately limited, standalone release — a prologue or sampler — rather than a game with an ongoing development cycle. There are no DLC listings, no unreleased content, no roadmaps, and no developer communications suggesting further updates or additions to Preface specifically. The game has received no major content updates since its launch. It launched as a complete, intentionally scoped product and no further content has been announced.
Evidence
Developer announces the full version of Boiling Steel has launched, explicitly referencing Preface as the earlier free mini-version — confirming Preface was always intended as a limited standalone prologue, not an evolving product.
Store description presents a contained sci-fi VR shooter experience with no mention of post-launch content, updates, or ongoing development plans.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
MIROWIN
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
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.
As soon as you wake up from a long sleep in a capsule of hibernation, you fall into circulation. Radical fanatics are here too. A virus was launched into information networks that turned robots into aggressive death machines. The paradise planet plunged into the chaos of war. The inhabitants of the colony took the seats of the operators of robotic shells and sent their army of robots into battle. Joint efforts have borne fruit.
The virus is localized, stripping is approaching the final phase. But the “robot riot” is just the tip of the space-iceberg that the planet has encountered. Everything that happens next goes beyond understanding and plunges the planet into utter darkness.
Your hibernation capsule is stuck in quarantine on an orbital station. But this is not a time to relax. Control the robotic shell of an engineering department directly from orbit! Immerse yourself in the thick of events and witness the inexplicable global cataclysm. Guess its nature and save the planet. But first, survive yourself.
Boiling Steel is a Sci-Fi VR shooter with an intriguing storyline.
- A unique system for quick reloading weapons adds drive and gives a unique gaming experience.
- Nine different tools with original mechanic of two-handed grip allow the player choose their own playing style.
- The weapon upgrade system automatically improves a favorite and frequently used tool, gradually turning it into a hellish machine.
- The ability to enhance selected parameters of the robotic shell adapts the gameplay for the player.
- Randomly generated biomes and dangers make each new playthrough unique.
- Thoughtful story missions reveal the gloomy secrets of the planet and keep the intrigue to the very end.
- Realistic graphics are completely immersed in the exciting reality of the fantastic world of the future.
- A minimum of 10 hours of gameplay, even for experienced players.
Welcome to the Boiling Steel universe! Explore, fight and share your impressions. The opinion of each player is important to our team.
And remember, a tool on overdrive is cooler than any weapon.
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.
As soon as you wake up from a long sleep in a capsule of hibernation, you fall into circulation. Radical fanatics are here too. A virus was launched into information networks that turned robots into aggressive death machines. The paradise planet plunged into the chaos of war. The inhabitants of the colony took the seats of the operators of robotic shells and sent their army of robots into battle. Joint efforts have borne fruit.
The virus is localized, stripping is approaching the final phase. But the “robot riot” is just the tip of the space-iceberg that the planet has encountered. Everything that happens next goes beyond understanding and plunges the planet into utter darkness.
Your hibernation capsule is stuck in quarantine on an orbital station. But this is not a time to relax. Control the robotic shell of an engineering department directly from orbit! Immerse yourself in the thick of events and witness the inexplicable global cataclysm. Guess its nature and save the planet. But first, survive yourself.
Boiling Steel is a Sci-Fi VR shooter with an intriguing storyline.
- A unique system for quick reloading weapons adds drive and gives a unique gaming experience.
- Nine different tools with original mechanic of two-handed grip allow the player choose their own playing style.
- The weapon upgrade system automatically improves a favorite and frequently used tool, gradually turning it into a hellish machine.
- The ability to enhance selected parameters of the robotic shell adapts the gameplay for the player.
- Randomly generated biomes and dangers make each new playthrough unique.
- Thoughtful story missions reveal the gloomy secrets of the planet and keep the intrigue to the very end.
- Realistic graphics are completely immersed in the exciting reality of the fantastic world of the future.
- A minimum of 10 hours of gameplay, even for experienced players.
Welcome to the Boiling Steel universe! Explore, fight and share your impressions. The opinion of each player is important to our team.
And remember, a tool on overdrive is cooler than any weapon.
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