IRON NEST shipped as a finished 1.0 release on 6 August 2026, so its roadmap describes additions rather than completion. Nothing on it currently carries a date.
What has been described as planned
Four items appear consistently in launch-period material:
- Additional missions beyond the fifteen-operation campaign
- Skirmish modes
- An expansion
- Console ports, described as arriving a few months after the PC release
- Multiplayer — see the caveat below, which is substantial
None of these has an announced window. "A few months" for consoles is the most specific figure available, and it names no platforms.
The multiplayer entry needs care
This is the item that most people are actually checking the roadmap for, and it is the one where the available sources contradict each other.
A developer reply on the Steam discussion boards, marked as the answer to a co-op question, states that official co-op is planned for the next IRON NEST game — the first game is single-player, and work on proper co-op begins afterwards. Separately, the developers have described a long-term plan in which a second title is fully multiplayer, with co-op at the core and PvP or PvPvE still internally undecided.
Some secondary coverage instead describes co-op missions and competitive modes as planned for the base game, post-launch. Both cannot be right.
Unconfirmed — this site has not resolved the conflict against a primary source. If a co-op roadmap claim is going to affect whether you buy the game, read the developer replies on Steam yourself rather than trusting any summary, including this one.
Why the roadmap is vague by design
A two-person team that has just shipped a 1.0 and hit 17,515 concurrent players is in a position where committing to dates is a liability. The absence of a schedule is not evasion so much as the normal condition of a small studio deciding what the reception justifies building next.
This has a practical consequence for reading any roadmap page about this game, including this one: the gap between "described as planned" and "announced" is where almost all the misinformation lives. Everything above is in the first category.
What has actually shipped since launch
unconfirmed. A verified list of post-launch patches and their contents is not maintained on this site yet. The Steam news hub carries the authoritative record, and building an accurate update log means reading it rather than summarising launch-week articles.
This page will be rebuilt around that log once it has enough entries to be worth maintaining. Until then, treat this page as a statement of intentions rather than of progress.
How to track it yourself
Two sources, in order of authority:
- The Steam news hub for the game. Patch notes and official announcements land here, and this is the record of what has genuinely shipped rather than what was discussed.
- The official Discord. The developers participate in daily discussion, and plans generally surface there before they reach a formal announcement. It is also where the reasoning behind decisions gets explained, which the patch notes rarely cover.
The official site carries an FAQ that reflects the studio's current public position, which makes it useful for checking whether a roadmap claim you read elsewhere is still accurate.
Keeping the pages consistent
The multiplayer question appears in three places on this site — here, on the multiplayer page and in the homepage FAQ — and all three deliberately say the same thing: 1.0 is single-player, the developer statement points at a separate title, and the conflicting account is unresolved.
If you find those three disagreeing after an update, the multiplayer page is the one maintained as the primary version, and the other two should be corrected to match it.