Gem of the Week
IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator
by Nick Nieuwoudt & Dominik Latos
Overwhelmingly Positive — 99% of 1,628 reviews
Genre: Simulation / Action / Indie · Price: $14.99 (-25% intro offer, ends Aug 20) — reg. $19.99 · Playtime: ~6-10 h campaign, effectively endless via challenge modes & leaderboards
You operate a 5,000-ton walking artillery turret in an alternate-history Spain of the late 1920s, weeks away from civil war. High Command sends coordinates over the teleprinter; everything after that is your problem. Measure the range on the tactical map, grind the ballistic calculator toward a firing solution, pick a shell, crank the elevation wheel by hand, swing several thousand tons of iron into position, fire. Nothing is automated, and that is the whole design: the game hands you consequences instead of a crosshair, including ammunition choices it pointedly refuses to spell out. Two developers built it, 33 achievements and 15 regions deep, and 1,628 players have so far produced 14 negative reviews between them. There is a free demo covering the first operations if you want to test the firing loop before paying.
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