The beforehand Japan-exclusive consultant of the Steel Saga sequence would appear to be getting a remaster and Western launch, and can lastly be allowed to flee it’s dual-screen glass home of the Nintendo DS after twenty years caught on it.
The title was introduced at ChinaJoy 2026, and plenty of because of 4Gamer for the small print as to its launch.
The Steel Saga subseries is an fascinating a part of an already fascinating and fairly area of interest JRPG franchise that largely didn’t go away Japan, the Steel Max sequence. The primary correlating hyperlinks is the entire titles having a serious give attention to tank fight, and by that I imply fight in tanks, not the RPG equal of tank controls in numerous survival horror titles, largely popularized by the early Resident Evil titles. Moreover extremely open to being open-ended, and giving the participant a variety of freedom to do as they’d like. Many of the sequence, moreover, haven’t truly formally launched within the West, the primary one being the PS2 title that bears the sub-series’ identify… Steel Saga… itself, again in April 2026, 20 years in the past in its personal proper.
Probably the most noticeable change as of this second is the apparent lack of a dual-screen interface, with it now not being on the Nintendo DS, and changes to an apparently troublesome to regulate touchscreen management setup, which I can’t personally touch upon, having by no means owned a DS, not to mention performed the unique launch. It’s being labored on by Chinese language studio Joystick, who said that they as working with the unique writer’s unique developer, Success. It’s about as troublesome as you’ll be able to think about to seek out details about Joystick’s earlier efforts, if any such exist, contemplating it’s identify and never eager to by accident combine it up with Joystick Ventures. It’s anticipated to launch for the Swap 2, PC, and PS4/PS5, though there may be at present no official launch window.
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