Broken Metal

Broken Metal

Armadillo Game Studios · December 8, 2019 · Indie, Strategy, Free to Play

Broken Metal is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Positive88% · 17 📉 Recent reviews down 80%
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Broken Metal price

Broken Metal is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Broken Metal

Fight with a small team through floors of hostile machines, tweak your team to overcome increasingly more powerful enemies, learn from your mistakes as you are overwhelmed and plan better for your next attempt. Be careful though, there is no going back after you end your turn. You will have to live with the consequences of your actions.

Broken Metal is a tactical roguelike, each floor is randomly generated along with what enemies appear, each unit has a random skill tree, and if a unit dies, there is no getting them back.

Broken Metal — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 14, 2026
tldr this game is a beautiful (and free) little iso strategy game, perfect to take up a few hours of your day. I wish I could play it on my phone, it'd be great lovely little iso strategy game. it's not terribly hard, it's got good sounds, cute and pretty sprites, and some good thematic kevin macleod music. with the rigid attack areas and the separation of movement and attacking and abilities as actions, I'd say the closest comparison is Into The Breach as far as core gameplay goes. it gets a little samey after 20 or so floors but there keep being new enemy types and with the abilities your units can get it stays very fun for a while. it strikes a really good balance between feeling powerful and being worried when you get cornered or surrounded. also it's free lmao this is pretty awesome. the dev seems to be missing in action lately but I hope he's still making cool stuff somewhere.
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Not recommended Jun 22, 2025
"Broken Metal" is kinda like if you took X-Com, removed the cool sinister UFO conspiracy theme, removed the base building, replaced all the graphics with pixelcrap of the lowest order, and stripped out anything else that might be fun, too. What you're left with is a turn based tactical with zero joy and quality so bad you'll wonder if PC gaming was worth it at all. What do you do in the game? Plod through samey procgen encounters endlessly. That's it, that's all there is to it. Surviving units get to upgrade their skills. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. There's also no UI scaling, so if you have a smaller monitor you're screwed and probably can't play this, and if you have a larger display, well the characters are going t…
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Recommended Oct 31, 2025
"Broken Metal" — атмосферная игра с мрачным сюжетом и уникальной механикой выживания в постапокалиптическом мире. Отличная графика, глубокая система улучшений и стратегическое планирование базы. Однако сложность обучения и частые баги могут оттолкнуть новичков. Рекомендую тем, кто любит жесткий геймплей и атмосферные квесты.
Recommended Nov 5, 2020
My only real problem is the scaling for everything, the info for each enemy and character usually ends up overlaying the board so I can see of click on it, and when I make the pixel scaling lower, I can't see anything cause It's so small. Other then that, it's well worth sitting down and playing.
Recommended Aug 30, 2020
Wonderful tactical combat with punishing AI. Good music, great character building elements. Gets really difficult in later rounds. Each time you play character creation is different which makes each playthrough unique.
Not recommended Dec 8, 2019
This game itself is Destructo, game stopped after Destructo self explode 10/10

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