Sport Rant can completely share a brand new Aether and Iron trailer, showcasing varied features of the upcoming RPG. The Seismic Squirrel-developed title is presently on target for a 2026 launch, although a concrete launch date for Aether and Iron has but to be introduced.
Initially revealed in March 2025, Aether and Iron is a retro-futuristic narrative-driven tactical RPG set in an alternate-history model of Thirties New York Metropolis, the place anti-gravitational know-how reshaped all features of life, fueled by a mysterious substance referred to as aether. The TRPG casts gamers as Gia Randazzo, a jaded smuggler searching for her large break within the Large Apple.
Aether and Iron Showcases Experience Customization, Tactical Fight, and Extra
Half a yr after first saying its steampunk RPG, Issaquah, Washington-based developer Seismic Squirrel shared one other Aether and Iron trailer, which Sport Rant can completely reveal. The 75-second video establishes the sport’s premise of enjoying as a smuggler who must depend on persuasion, deception, and brute power whereas enterprise a wide range of missions. It additionally showcases varied gameplay features of Aether and Iron, together with tactical fight and trip customization.
Seen across the 20-second mark is a steampunk storage the place the protagonist will get to tune her automotive. The trailer exhibits six element slots in whole, governing the selection of the trip’s engine, propulsion gadgets generally known as repulsors, and as much as 4 weapons. The chosen elements decide the automotive’s weight, motion factors, storage capability, and “warmth”—a metric that seems to measure how conspicuous the automobile is. Aether and Iron may also enable gamers to recruit and improve their allies and tune up their loadouts, figuring out who can be smuggling what and what sort of tools they will have available. All these selections will come into play throughout turn-based vehicular fight, which can incorporate some TRPG genre staples like environmental hazards.
Aether and Iron’s Story Is Penned by Mass Impact, Far Cry Writers
The trailer additionally provides a number of glimpses of some Aether and Iron missions, which seem to offer goal selection past merely eliminating all enemies. Some missions embrace flip limits, whereas others job gamers with finishing targets as waves of enemies spawn at common intervals. The Unity engine-powered title guarantees a narrative penned by a crew of writers that beforehand labored on Mass Impact, Far Cry, and 2024 Victorian steampunk RPG Sovereign Syndicate. The narrative will see gamers discover the seedy underbelly of the sport’s alternate-history Thirties NYC and make decisions that may decide its destiny, as per the mission’s official synopsis. This pledge means that Aether and Iron will supply some extent of replay worth.
The promise of narrative depth, political themes, dialogue-driven gameplay segments, and a sci-fi setting all point out that Aether and Iron might appeal to Disco Elysium fans, even when it would not abstain from conventional fight the best way ZA/UM’s hit 2019 recreation does. Extra particulars concerning the retro-futuristic title are anticipated to emerge within the months forward, because it will get nearer to its deliberate 2026 launch.
