Steel Assault

Punch, whip, and zipline your way through a post-apocalyptic America in this 16-bit retro-style action platformer! Play as Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes.

Steel Assault is a 2d platformer, fast-paced and arcade game developed by Zenovia Interactive and published by Tribute Games Inc..
Released on September 28th 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 8 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 368 reviews of which 293 were positive and 75 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 7.79€ on Steam and has a 40% discount.

The Steam community has classified Steel Assault into these genres:

2D Platformer Fast-Paced Arcade Action Post-apocalyptic Side Scroller Pixel Graphics Retro Bullet Hell Difficult Sci-fi Perma Death Platformer America 2D Futuristic Old School Indie Short Singleplayer

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7+, 64-bit only
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 or AMD Phenom II X2 550
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 9600 GT or Radeon HD 3870
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 300 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Yosemite 10.10.5 or newer
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
Storage: 300 MB available space

Linux

OS: glibc 2.17, 64-bit only
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 or AMD Phenom II X2 550
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
Storage: 300 MB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Sept. 2024

It's like Contra 4 with a little bit of Bionic Commando and Castlevania mixed in. A fast, fun, challenging and short experience (could had been a little bit longer, branching paths, etc). Music is pretty solid too. Try the Arcade 1 CC mode if you want to have an aneurysm!

Sept. 2024

Beautiful pixel art and great soundtrack, but the levels and bosses needs more polish. Levels and bosses are difficult due to not knowing their attack patterns and not getting enough time to learn levels or boss patterns before dying. On Normal difficulty you can only take 4 hits before you die and the invincibility after getting hit is pretty short, so it feels more cheap-shot + trial-and-error that it should. Thankfully there are infinite continues because otherwise I might not have finished the game out of frustration (or at least finished it out of stubbornness rather than out of enjoyment). I also ran into a bug 2 or 3 times on the final boss where after dodging their lunge attack, they would disappear and never reappear on the stage, so I would be forced to restart the fight. Overall, get this game for the aesthetic, for a first game it's got a lot of charm, but the game design side needs work.

Sept. 2024

What can I say? This game is pure bad ass action and brings me back to arcade style playing. The graphics are exactly my type of graphics I love. The best part is they have 4:3 support. Would be nice iif more games had this feature.

March 2024

Awesome Steel Assault video Review: https://youtu.be/vpQVfP88BZo Words Review - 8 / 10 Steel Assault is a really fun and challenging sidescroller game where you are a cyborg with an electric whip and punch as your means of attack. You make your way through each level, of which each has multiple sections until you reach the level boss at the end. The gameplay feels excellent when using a gamepad, everything is very responsive and tight. It's super fun to play and the action is top notch. Enemies can shoot at you and you can destroy their projectiles in mid-aid as long as they are not flashing, otherwise you need to dodge. You can also do a slide dodge for a short distance. Most importantly, you also have a zipline just like out of Sky Commanders and this is necessary for certain parts of the game and to defeat certain enemies much easier. It's very fun using the zipline. The levels all flow together perfectly and have incredible pixel art graphics that are great to look at as you play. This all feels like a brand new top tier SNES game or Sega CD game. The only downside to this game is how short it is and how short the levels are. While each has multiple parts those parts don't take that much to get through. The entire game took me 1.5 hours on normal difficulty but the end boss was so hard I couldn't beat him, I lost over 40 times. Eventually I had to restart and run through the game on an easier difficulty, but after that I destroyed him and saw the end of the game. Amazing game for sure, I would definitely say it's worth a play for sure. I hope they make a 2nd Steel Assault. [url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6mKMOoZmFo_zrnmhVf5Mfg] Awesome Game Reviews

Jan. 2024

To get to the point where you can beat the game in "barely 20 minutes" on Expert (no checkpoints, 1.7% of players do this), leave alone Arcade (no saves), you probably are going to have to play 20x or 30x of that amount of time. Game is very well made and a great deal of care evidently went into it. Solid pick for just about everybody who isn't a pedantic prick.

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-40% 12.99€ 7.79€

7.5

293

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Developer

Zenovia Interactive

Publisher

Tribute Games Inc.

Release 28 Sep 2021

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