Tin Coffins

About the game

In one sentence

Tin Coffins is a cel-shaded third-person mech roguelite shooter in which a cloned pilot fights short, lethal squad battles through procedurally generated cities, and each death hands the controls to the next clone.

Short description (about 60 words)

You are Talon-22, a combat clone printed this shift, and twenty-one of you didn’t come home. A cel-shaded mech roguelite shooter: short, lethal squad battles through procedurally generated war-torn cities, against enemy squads that flank, suppress and hold the line. Die, and the next you deploys. Up to four pilots can fly together in co-op.

Long description

WAKE PROTOCOL: LINE TALON, ITERATION 22. ENGRAM RESTORE: COMPLETE. TERMINAL TRIM: 00:01:28. GOOD MORNING, TALON.

You are a combat clone, the twenty-second of the Talon line, piloting a humanoid mech at infantry scale through short, lethal missions in war-torn cities, with your squad at your back. When you die, the war doesn’t rewind. The front line keeps what you won and lost, the casualty board takes your name, and the next iteration of you wakes up to keep fighting.

This is not a game about being a god in a giant robot. You are a soldier in an armored suit. Cover, sightlines and reload windows decide fights, and mechs die in seconds under sustained fire, you included. Lose an arm and keep fighting. Lose your head and your radar and radio go with it. Lose your torso or your legs and you go down.

The enemy fights as squads. Each one has a commander handing out roles (anchor, flank, suppress, overwatch, retreat) to pilots who decide for themselves when to peek, push, reload and fall back. They see you by line of sight and hunt where they last saw you; pop smoke and they lose you. Your own four wingmates take orders over a comms radial and answer on the radio, and when that isn’t enough you can call the support you signed out before the drop.

A run is four sorties on one life, with no respawns. The salvage you bank buys frames and weapons that outlast you, and every sortie moves a front line across three theaters of war. Complete the cycle and you retire to the colonies. That’s the deal. But the iterations before you learned to leave messages where the scrub can’t reach, and the messages in your journal are from you.

You don’t have to fly alone. Outside the campaign, up to four pilots can fly sorties together in online co-op, with AI pilots in any empty seat. Invite friends through Steam, share a squad code, or press RANDOM SQUAD to join strangers, and talk over push-to-talk voice chat. The free demo has co-op too.

Features

• A soldier in a suit, not a god. Lethal, cover-based fights in which positioning beats reflexes. Friendly fire is real for everyone, and your wingmates check their line of fire before they shoot.
• Four-player co-op. Two to four pilots fly sorties together outside the campaign, with AI flying any empty seat. Join through a Steam invite, a squad code or RANDOM SQUAD, talk over push-to-talk voice chat, or play over LAN. The free demo has it too.
• Enemies that fight as squads. Commanders assign roles, and pilots peek, suppress, take cover and fall back on their own. Rookies lose their nerve under fire and drop off comms; veterans hold the order.
• Command your squad. Four wingmates, more on the big operations. Tag, flank left or right, overwatch, follow or disengage, and call in an artillery barrage, a lance of reinforcements or a block on enemy landings.
• Three frames. Light, medium and heavy, each with its own way out of trouble: the light’s boost-dash and jump pack, the medium’s dive-roll, the heavy’s thruster lurch and braced stance. Nine weapons, from autocannons and a marksman rifle to guided missiles, siege rockets and smoke walls.
• Per-limb damage. Arms and the head can be lost without dying; the torso and legs cannot. A paper-doll HUD shows what’s left.
• A war that keeps score. Five mission types (purge, sabotage, extraction, seize and defense) and multi-stage operations that chain them. Each one is fought in its own procedurally generated city, by day, at dusk, at night or under a toxic haze, with dropship insertions, reinforcement drops and a siege tank that has to be taken from behind.
• Tactical Replay. After a sortie, scrub through the fight and see what each enemy pilot knew about you against where you really were, and what their commander ordered.
• Echoes. Dead drops left where earlier clones fell, and transmissions on a channel Command doesn’t log, signed by earlier Talons.
• No account, no telemetry. The campaign plays fully offline. Fourteen achievements, English and Japanese, colorblind modes, subtitles, and a scalable UI and HUD.