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A modern take on the classic arcade arena shooter. Taking inspiration from an entire generation of action games, Iron Fisticle builds on classic titles like Gauntlet and Robotron while adding over 100 collectible items, an RPG style upgrade system and local multiplayer.

Iron Fisticle is a action, indie and local co-op game developed by Confused Pelican and published by Curve Games.
Released on September 16th 2014 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 495 reviews of which 415 were positive and 80 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 1.34€ on Steam with a 85% discount, but you can find it for 0.42€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Iron Fisticle into these genres:

Action Indie Local Co-Op 2D Twin Stick Shooter Shoot 'Em Up Top-Down Shooter Top-Down Arena Shooter Pixel Graphics Zombies Retro Arcade Local Multiplayer Rogue-like

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8
  • Processor: Dual Core at 2Ghz and above
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Open GL 2.0 Compatible Card
  • Storage: 100 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
Despite the title, this is not an erotic S&M visual novel with a painful fantasy vibe. It's a really enjoyable mash up of Smash TV and Gauntlet with a fantasy vibe. Despite preceding it, there's also something here that's reminiscent of the pace and flow in Vampire Survivors; moving in tune with your basic axe throws as you try to forge a path through the horde. This is purely room-based though - clear one and move on to next as you head to the boss of each floor before descending to the next. Bought on sale for a whopping 65 pence, I've had a great time so far and at this price it's an absolute steal if you enjoy this retro-flavoured kind of stuff. Solo play is fun and challenging, split-screen local co-op is a very welcome inclusion and a perfect reason to hand over your rubbish controller to a friend, sibling or significant other. The pixel art, audio and all-round feel is bang-on and the game does an lovely job of bringing the old up to date without feeling like it's too modernised or compromised. It feels like a well crafted love letter to the past and I've found it great to dip into every now and again. Some rogue-like permanent upgrades and rpg-like levelling helps ease you in too. If you like the sound of that, then what are you waiting for? Get fisticled!
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Jan. 2025
There are two of these games: Iron Fisticle Iron Crypticle This one is the first of the two. Simple wholesome twinsticking fun - there are some levelling up elements but definitely not a roguelike, just minor progressions that add more weapons/haelth as you play more. It's fun for some casual shooting and can be played with same-pc friends.
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Jan. 2025
I'll be honest, I only bought the game for the cheese Steam profile background and cheese emoticon which I infuriatingly learned you need to play 2 hours of the game to unlock the backgrounds that come with it. So I launched the game and decided to give it a shot only to realise it does not fullscreen properly on my 4k monitor and the windowed version is not custom sizeable enough to fill the screen. That's very, very frustrating which lead me to just leave the game running in main menu for 2 hours to get my sweet sweet cheese background and cheese emoticon. While I will likely not play the game due to the screen sizing issue, I will still recommend this game as it comes with a wonderful cheese background and cheese emoticon, worth it for the price I payed.
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July 2024
Great twinstick shooter with both a rougelite (classic, with permanent upgrades and floor selection for casuals) and rougelike (challenge, go from 1st floor with no upgrades) modes, along with the 3 classic difficulty options. All of these modes and difficulties (and also coop) have high score boards that are still functional today. Only real complaint would be that during the bonus platforming minigame and shopping it sometimes accidentally buys/jumps when imputting movement directions, but outside of that the game is amazing.
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July 2024
9/10 I enjoy loading this now and then for a Smash TV style game. It's pretty simplistic/arcadey, but fine for the price. Very cool game and I thought it was much harder but after you enter the game and play, it's really very interesting, I want part 2!
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Frequently Asked Questions

Iron Fisticle is currently priced at 1.34€ on Steam.

Iron Fisticle is currently available at a 85% discount. You can purchase it for 1.34€ on Steam.

Iron Fisticle received 415 positive votes out of a total of 495 achieving a rating of 7.86.
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Iron Fisticle was developed by Confused Pelican and published by Curve Games.

Iron Fisticle is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Iron Fisticle is not playable on MacOS.

Iron Fisticle is not playable on Linux.

Iron Fisticle offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Iron Fisticle offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

Iron Fisticle does not currently offer any DLC.

Iron Fisticle does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Iron Fisticle supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Iron Fisticle is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Iron Fisticle
-85% 8.99€ 1.34€ -96% 8.99€ 0.42€
7.9
415
80
Game modes
Features
Online players
0
Developer
Confused Pelican
Publisher
Curve Games
Release 16 Sep 2014
Platforms
Remote Play
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