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Publisher PLAYISM, Rusted Moss developer Emlise, and developer Mini Bunnies have announced Iron Bramble, a momentum-based Metroidvania game. It will launch for PC via Steam in 2027 with English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese language support.

Here is an overview of the game, via PLAYISM:

About

Iron Bramble is a “momentum Metroidvania” that refreshes the world setting of its predecessor, Rusted Moss, while inheriting its physics-based grappling hook action. Set in a mysterious giant mechanism known as the “Iron Bramble,” the game offers a unique story where Sci-Fi and dark fantasy intersect. Players follow the fae explorer Lilac as she battles robots possessed by the souls of the dead. Enjoy action that fuses free-flowing movement with tight, precise gunplay. A wide variety of weapon types and upgrades, numerous dresses with different abilities, seamless crime challenges, time-limited delivery quests, and other new and classic elements combine to greatly expand the game’s scope. From the creators of Rusted Moss, Iron Bramble is a momentum-based Metroidvania built around expressive movement and tight gunplay. Master your elastic grappling hook to explore a vast, cyber-gothic megastructure, where robots piloted by the souls of the dead do penance for their sins.

Get Hooked on a New Grapplevania

Challenging to learn, rewarding to master. Propelled by your momentum, this physics-based, elastic grappling hook is one of the most expressive movement systems found in any Metroidvania. Be creative! Fling yourself through the air or close the distance by grappling your enemies, shotgun at the ready. Plus, platforming challenges have no intended solutions. Master the hook and break the game.

Flowing, Acrobatic Movement… with GUNS!

Find a rocket launcher? Sure, you can blow up your enemies, but you can also use it to ROCKET JUMP! Combine that with bunny hopping and you can build your momentum for overwhelming speed. Movement and combat blend in an aerial ballet. Swing, flip, soar and slide, or propel yourself with knockback from your gun—get into the flow state with your acrobatic moveset as you blast apart your enemies.

Customize Your Playstyle

Change your loadout with pretty (or ugly) frocks, trinkets and an armory of guns, guns, guns. There are also accessibility options—feel free to fine-tune to your preferred settings or pick a preset (including story mode).

Delve Into a Cyber-Gothic Fairy Tale

In the mysterious Iron Bramble, robots are piloted by the souls of the dead, trapped in eternal repentance for sins they don’t remember. Have you truly found a way into Hell? Who is the sleeping princess at the center of it all? And will you ever find a frock that’s as pretty as you?

Key Features

Super cool physics-based grappling hook—with 360-degree aiming and the freedom to grapple almost anything.

Unique abilities to unlock that you won’t find in your traditional Metroidvania.

Loadout variety with frocks, trinkets and an arsenal of guns (with knockback!).

Over 10 bosses to blast apart.

Bonus missions—climbing challenges, package deliveries and endless arena mode.

Lots of accessibility options, including story mode.

A cyber-gothic fairy tale with multiple endings.

Gothic gardens, twisting spires and a haunted mainframe—explore gorgeous environments that push pixel art to its limit.

100 percent handmade with real human suffering; no generative AI.

Watch the announcement trailer below.

Announce Trailer