Operators.
After thousands of design decisions, hundreds of sleepless nights, countless cups of coffee that legally qualified as industrial solvents…
HIGH COMMAND CONFIRMS: IRON NEST IS FULLY OPERATIONAL
To celebrate the launch, we've 🔴 increased the release discount from 20% to 25% 🔴. Not because some marketing spreadsheet told us to, but because this project was never ours alone.
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When we started making IRON NEST, there wasn't an army behind us. It was just us. Then a handful of people on Discord somehow looked at this strange little giant turret game and decided: "yeah... let's see where this goes."
You kept showing up. You brought your friends into the ranks. You rallied Content Creators to our cause. You shared your stories, screenshots, clips, ridiculous strategies, and bug reports that occasionally resembled "minor and entirely acceptable casualties".
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, that tiny Discord server grew into a headquarters for 70,000 loyal Operators. We’ve been in a year-long mad rush, so it will take quite some time until we fully grasp the reality of it all. We never dreamed of this. We still don't fully understand how this happened.
What we _do_ understand is that without you, this game would never have become what it is today. Not even close. So making the game a little cheaper on day one for everyone who has been waiting is the smallest "thank you" we could think of. Truthfully, this will likely be the deepest discount for quite some time. It felt like the right way to celebrate the launch.
We've poured everything we had into IRON NEST. People say that all the time, we know. But we genuinely have. Late nights became early mornings, weekends quietly disappeared. Friends and family got far fewer sightings of us than they deserved. We hope that when they look at IRON NEST and the incredible community it has brought together, they'll feel it was worth sharing us with everyone else for a little while.
Because we'd do it all again. No matter what happens from today onward… This has already been the adventure of our lives.
POST-LAUNCH ROADMAP
So, does High Command rest? Negative. We reviewed our own request for vacation. And... It was denied.
More content. More missions. More skirmish modes. More features. More music. High Command knows what you're about to ask, so let's save everyone some time:
🔴 YES. Eventually... MULTIPLAYER. 🔴
And somewhere along the way, all of this will culminate in a proper expansion.
***You can find answers about console ports, VR, and other frequently asked questions in this thread.
FINAL ORDERS
High Command has one request: if IRON NEST has earned your approval, consider leaving an honest review on Steam. Join our Discord, recruit a fellow Operator, or share the machine with your household through Steam Family Sharing. Every recommendation, every conversation, and every single Operator could tip the scales of victory in our favor. And if you encountered a bug, localization issue, or have an idea for what comes next? Submit your field report through the HUB // Reports, Feedback & Localization.
The hatches are sealed.
The engines are running.
The guns are loaded.
High Command has issued the order.
🔴 THE FINAL OFFENSIVE BEGINS NOW. 🔴
GLORY TO THE OPERATORS.
Nick & Dominik