Indie developer Emerick Gibson first released Iron Mandate on Steam early access in March 2023: a roguelike shooter loosely inspired by Dune's sandworms, Gibson subsequently spent around a month updating the game, before seemingly abandoning the idea.
Two years later Gibson returned to fully release the game, make it free of charge, and share a post mortem "retrospective on a 'failed' project" (thanks, GamesRadar+). And he doesn't sugar-coat it either: there's "a lack of time, money and fundamental issues with the core idea, [so] I'm moving this game out of early access, leaving it free and moving on."
