IRON MEAT: Full Story Explained!

[@retrowaretv]

IRON MEAT is out on ALL PLATFORMS! 🖥 Steam: bit.ly/IronMeatSteam 🔴 Nintendo Switch: bit.ly/IronMeatNintendo 🔵 PlayStation: bit.ly/IronMeatPlayStation 🟢 Xbox: bit.ly/IronMeatXbox 🎮 Physical Edition: bit.ly/IronMeatPhysical 🟤 Epic Games: bit.ly/IronMeatEpic 🟡 Itch: bit.ly/IronMeatItchio 🟣 GOG: bit.ly/IronMeatGOG 🟠 VK Play: bit.ly/IronMeatVKplay

[@TheRezro]

So in short. It is Contra-Doom.

[@GzegzolkaDA]

Got it on GoG :)

[@yurisantos8730]

No android

[@valeforedark]

9 levels isn't a game. That's like releasing a 4 track ep and calling it a full album .

[@CacaManPowa]

One of my favourite parts of the game is how the world and the Moon becomes gradually more infected and conquered by the meat.

[@peash0ter610]

Very glad other soldiers helped in this. Its even better that some of them survived. You need to remember: A human may be like an ant to an Eldrich horror, but if they attack Earth, they just stuck their arm elbow deep in a fire ant nest!

[@nick-brothwood]

More like a bullet ant's nest.

[@CBRN-115]

​@@nick-brothwood makes sense. We got guns

[@sairus3239]

I like two facts about the game the most: 1) the paradox of achievement when you finish the game as Sasha 2) having player 2 as drinks salesman in the escape pod scene (he is a former salesman, remember?) if you finish the game in coop mode

[@aleksir695]

Thanks now i know how to get more achiment dan.

[@sairus3239]

@@aleksir695 its the literal description of the achievement though. I haven't got it myself yet. ^_^

[@Dostoron]

Sasha held the moon, no doubt at least making it easier for Vadim to get through to Markov's lab and at the meat of the matter (sorry i'll stop) for all the time it took the earth to get invaded, and push all the way back to the teleportation institute. she bloody well earned that drink. also, considering the massive corpse meat piles we climb over, it's likely she made it POSSIBLE to get through to the meat manually in the first place.

[@GzegzolkaDA]

I always think that Yuri was still partially self conscious. Meat need him to control and spread infection but he have his own goals. I thought he was going to sterilize himself in that yellow tank at top of radio tower.

[@retrowaretv]

Yuri is canonical a jerk bag. Sorry.

[@NeoBeelzemon]

Nah, it's reference on Yuri Markov from CoD MW.

[@Man_with_cool]

It was makarov and unless they announced it I mostly doubt it

[@realspaceanimator6434]

honestly i really loved this game and all its levels and this makes me wish for a sequel with this series having so much potential to become something even bigger

[@rulerofeverything6294]

Holy shit it the real space 4 man!

[@yourboimathios]

well, after we beat the Interdimensional Horror on the Moon, during the escape sequence, there is a ship that was launched to Mars so... I think that will be our core clue for a sequel.

[@MultiKillerjoe]

One of the best stories I've seen and the cutscenes that start at the start of a level and end of a level make it worth while! I cannot Wait for Iron Meat 2!

[@gabrielajanki9167]

Now THAT'S quite some lore for an already quite amazing game! This helped answer a few questions I had in mind, such as 1 - Was Yuri Markov in control of his actions? Judged from how self-centered he sounded even before infection.... probably? 2 - Why were you dropped down at the end of Stage 4? Turns out it was to take out a big, infected rig this whole time! ... I mean, it was probably a bit obvious, but I (and Vadim if the question marks were any indication) was still a bit confused. Great job on the game, lads!

[@silentvi6788]

2 - lab survivors isolated themselves from underground storage because of the infected truck inside. We player arrives situation is too critical. Supply of blue substance are short, and truck becomes too aggressive it nearly can crash whole complex and destroy blue substance storage. So they are sending you down as the most competent soldier to eliminate foe and gain access to resources.

[@silentvi6788]

1 - IMHO every other soul, when completely consumed by Meat, becomes nothing but puppet, so I think that Markov as a person had died at the beginning. I simply don't wanna think he was SO comedically evil to willingly join forces of entity that will destroy everything and everyone he ever knew.

[@Dostoron]

1 is a little complicated as such things go... interdimensional horrors have a way of "enlightening" their first few victims. he could have had the best and noblest intentions before meeting the meat. and as we see in the very beginning, after that stuff got him, he was fully infected and probably enthralled, a few scraps of his mind being kept intact to operate the portal wether at that point he thought he was in control, or whether he thought he was doing good, didn't matter anymore.

[@C.J.B.R777]

If there is going to be a sequel to IRON MEAT, then there is some things that I would like to see. 1. (Title name ideas) IRON MEAT 2 MARS MASSACRE IRON MEAT 2 RED MENACE IRON MEAT 2 DIMENSIONAL DEVASTATION 2. (4 weapon slots) Being able to upgrade from 2 weapons slots to 4 weapon slots, and being able to have 4 weapons at the same time. 3. (4 players) Being able to play with 4 players, and each player will have their own color, like RED, BLUE, GREEN, AND YELLOW. 4. (Mod Support) If possible, I would like to see mod support so that people can make mods for the game.

[@DGneoseeker1]

Iron Meat 2 we meat again.

[@AndrewBlechinger]

5. (Guest characters) Super Meat Boy is RIGHT THERE. All you need is an e-mail to Ed and/or Tom.

[@ghoulishgoober3122]

​@@DGneoseeker1"the meat and greet"

[@RiverwindGames]

Thats such a cool backstory, you did a good job since the game by itself can explain most of those things while playing. From my point of view, it looked like Yuri Markov didnt become the Meat Prophet until the Meat devoured him at the top of the skyscraper, like the meat being tired of seeing Yuri Markov failing (stage 2 and 7) decides to do everything by itself, so assimilates him. But anyways, it wasnt Markov either anymore since he "died" when the cell attacked him on the moon lab. I would like to see something even more meaty, sasha being responsible of the moon being cut in half, a mission to mars or even that liquified moon would be awesome to see.

[@GzegzolkaDA]

Will we see Mars? Who was on first two escape ships? And where exactly they go?

[@jonathanj.3695]

Thanks for getting into the _meat_ of the story!

[@orcred4725]

16:02 Yeah yeah yeah...... we want the level that was removed (meaning the bike section or even a plane section) and also a level where..... we drive a mech no matter if it's small, I love the idea that the levels suddenly go crazy like Metal Slug 3 When you mentioned the final part where a certain ship escaped to Mars and the remains of the moon regenerate like a red moon, it gives me a lot of trouble and fear to know what will happen and I think I have the idea that the minimal portion of the hive leader that is released, I think that the true Meat has observed each and every human being who knows how to build a portal, meaning... the ship that escaped to Mars is going to build a portal :o OMAIGA! It means a lot of problems that require a mecha to solve and a SUPER ARMOR SUIT just in case, I never thought that Iron meat had so much lore despite having played I thought I had seen it all, but better than everything is that MEAT is a cosmic horror entity that gives an investigation to the SCPO.... By the way Dev, give the creator of the menu theme a promotion, because to this day I can't stop listening to it because it inspires fear because of the premise but at the same time it inspires a powerful energy that you are willing to face the horrors. It's... magnificent, not only does each theme level section make it incredibly memorable, but I'll stick with the menu theme.

[@MegaYoYo]

Is all this lore coming from the meat bible? Loved the game and I hope we get a sequel. Great game on it's own right

[@SophiaXiaoyuAralaCran]

I mean, there is (or was) actually a Meat Prophet after all, so... 🤣 (Pun intended)

[@SophiaXiaoyuAralaCran]

Spoiler noticed indeed... Now to think when I did get that far, I did notice the Mars escape unit was already gone. Sasha was still here all this time, and now pondering, of course there were others on the moon, but who already booked it? Friend or foe? Maybe Sasha did let someone get lucky and escape first? ...or could it hint to a Iron Meat 2 game as being either another antagonist or an infected Meat Craft later to become a boss? Or could it simply be part of a DLC stage for this game ahead? DLC Stage 1: Moon Act 2 (Sasha's side), and DLC Stage 2: Mars (or several stages across Mars?) DLC Stages 3+: Blood Moon?

[@NeoBeelzemon]

On one of loading screens shown terminal with "Mars is Lost"

[@deandresinclair]

7:22 man that poor guy risk his life

[@WhatIsThatThingDoing]

Keep calm and carrion

[@deandresinclair]

​@@WhatIsThatThingDoing indeed. But wait, if the interdimensional horror wasn't the main target, then who's that escape to mars?!

[@ultimatecorgi3392]

My suggestion? Put this story explanation into little unlockable files that can be accessed after you finish the game. Basic information is unlocked on easy mode, while teasers and deep lore are explained after beating hard mode.

[@TopsideCrisis346]

This is the only game one can finish and say, "I beat the Meat!" ... 😅 ...

[@MrCrazyhead78]

Wow even this got me interested. Like you see a trailer. Meh. When you hear the story like this. Oh you got me.

[@NeoBeelzemon]

In game you really have feeling that you are not lonely hero, but part of the forces.

[@waiwai5233]

Iron meat review

[@alfonszitterbacke318]

I have beaten the meat several times, sometimes multiple times a day. Sometimes i even invite my friends and family to watch me do it on high difficulty with only one hand, while they compliment me on my great skill as a gamer.

[@InfernalLordHadesLore]

By the way, I would add here the theory that during the second meeting with Yuri after his defeat, he could have weakened greatly and meat could lose complete control over it. This can be understood by the emotions experienced by Yuri during the battle with the meat prophet.

[@GzegzolkaDA]

It is highly possible that the Meat work as network structure where meat brain cell on moon is a master, Yuri Makrov is second in command, and bosses on Earth are next in the command line. If you kill level boss, the ground soldiers under it lose connection, and as seen in the ending will collapse, if You kill Yuri, then the brain cell will lose control over every boss on Earth, but keep control over Moon. And if You remove brain cell than either every meat infected soldier will collapse or Yuri will become master to control everything.

[@ThrashMatter]

I really want to see a sequel with another invasion of The Meat coming from Mars. Maybe The Meat has reproduced herself like a starfish and launched its offspring in that first escape pod to another human base located in Mars. Im really enjoying Iron Meat, its amazing! My favourite level is "Base" and my favourite boss the Flying Crocodile MI-24. Also my favourite songs are "Base" and "Meat Prophet Vassal of Iron Meat". Thank you Ivan and Retroware for this amazing game! 🥩🥩

[@ThrashMatter]

Now I watched the entire video and... yes! Hope we got a Sasha DLC in the future! 😊😊

[@maybetoby]

8:51 does it go faster in reverse?

[@Mr_Jester980]

We gotta get Arby's on the speed dial, bro. They're gonna love this!

[@isekaiexpress9450]

11:06 Have you noticed that the Monster House has a Shavarma Shack in it? It's also a Samosbor universe Easter Egg.

[@shawnbeeson6685]

I'm getting this game as soon as I get off work!!

[@salvatoreindelicato9368]

I love the bosses design,its like an arcade version of something leovincible would create

[@gelphaze1229]

Incredible story telling nicely done.

[@LazarheaD]

Awesome! Must buy!

[@peash0ter610]

This game heavily reminds me of A Robot Named Fight. Meat moon attacking the planet to indect technology and consume? Just my luck. ARNF is such a great game, mainly being a rougelike metroid game, but the story is very indepth below the repeat deaths. I hithly suggest it for anyone looking for a fun time piecing together lore and shooting meat!

[@Look-at-the-ghost]

Please buy this game!!!!! I need a physical please. From like Best Buy or Walmart, I’ll buy one for all the console!!!!!!

[@SolCresta3405]

I can defeat the Meat... Only on Easy and Normal. Hard mode is a nightmare, unfortunately.

[@aleksir695]

Same im literally red when i play with hard because of the angry. Is almost impossidle to kill the meat with it.

[@SolCresta3405]

@@aleksir695 Yes. I began to struggle around Stage 5 or 6, but by Stage 7 I finally rage quit.

[@ZombieGaming747]

THIS IS MY FAVORITE RETROWARE GAME PLEASE MAKE A SEQUAL OR A DLC

[@dravendefay07]

I can't believe you narrated the whole game. It seemed unnecessary at first, but that was really good!

[@ChristopherGriffin-ee2ol]

"This battle was-" Long🤨📸 "And-" *hard📸🤨* Ayo!

[@silent0089]

It seems the attack and the infection so intense yet it only lasted for seemingly a single night

[@OvisMilitaris]

Everytime he says "meat" take a swig of your favorite beverage containing alcohol. You may or may not see The Meat when finished.

[@Man_with_cool]

13:45 cadillions :(

[@iwuvu5940]

I personally consider iron meat to be the official sequel to carrion. It’s a perfect fit

[@id_29016]

Определённо ждём ДЛС!

[@anweshchakraborty2]

Thanks for so many (9) levels!

[@jewwario9870]

As a member of the Retroware family, I’d like to say I love these games for keeping my legacy alive!

[@justysilverman]

Dude. Could ya not? Damn.

[@Man_with_cool]

Yeah these kinda games are cool

[@Kiiro_Space]

I just have this crazy idea... Eldritch Entities sometimes are unbeatable. But i wonder if an Entity could survive a Cockroach infestation. Could it assimilate the Roach? Or will the Roach assimilate It? ... I have a feeling the Human spirit isn't enough for this argument.

[@TrojanLloydPer]

If you cant defeat the meat.. Beat it until it comes

[@GHOST_1702]

You need to add a dlc to this… 😉👍

[@yurisantos8730]

Is the metal soundtrack playing in the background was part of the game? Or video edit?

[@umbraanimo7767]

wonder why we never saw any infected animals?

[@Error_4x5]

DLC, DLC, DLC

[@45580677]

Thank you

[@calebclark1349]

I love this game cause apart from a very FEW particulars about the meat parasite, it’s basically the flood from halo, just FAR less dangerous and intelligent, at least in certain places. I’ve been doing a deep dive on which parasite would win, and after watching this video, I’m surprised to say that it’s actually kinda close in many areas :)

[@lorenzorodriguez9481]

This is like Dead Space where Earth Gov is still fighting the Necromorphs and helping Isaac instead of hindering him

[@mullerpotgieter]

Uhhh, That new moon is probably going to take a few million years to form

[@BlechRobot]

One awesome and metal-as-hell game, plus with all the extra characters, damn nice. Looking forward for a sequel or prequel. With more meat to barbecue, more characters, Battletoads(?) and new locations! Do it! Do it naow!

[@error_on_line_19]

Yo this game concept is good i feel like if there's a movie based on this it will be awesome

[@martinabasaiawmoit2778]

Bro there are only 8billion people on earth

[@valeforedark]

😂"only* made me giggle.

[@B48hmz-il5ix]

WAIT!that train was a RUNAWAY?! DAMM!I thought the the train was getting soldgers to safety!😮also I made my own iron meat mutant train boss oc.its A spider-leged bnsf(Burlington northern Santa fe)locomotive with one eye at the front cab window.

[@oneosix106decena]

MI-24 meat monster *GOES SO UNBELIEVABLY HARD*

[@clarkpercycanada]

7:22 The soldier throws him the weapon upgrade

[@Elbethium]

ADORE this game

[@troyskeete8372]

Missed comedic opportunity: "Can you...beat, the meat" I felt obligated by unwritten comedic law to put this out there. 😅

[@icycoldpil]

Really fun game. Great job Retroware.

[@belcherno.1b638]

This has been my favourite game of 2024 so far. I too would love more content. But I am still going to play THIS content a whole bunch more times :D If... a DLC or sequel were to appear. I would certainly find an 'alternate' campaign to be wonderful for replay value. I don't mean different levels, but I really wished there were some more unlockables in this one (not a complaint). So I thought, perhaps you could unlock new weapons, that could only be found and used in a separate campaign, perhaps ones that made combat more difficult and strange :D The even the new game+ would be an unlockable in itself. Perhaps also, a 'second loop' like in Super Castlevania IV. Where you clear one game and it moves right on to stage one again once the ending and credits roll, only this time all the enemy placement is different and it's a bit harder :D Basically I LOVE your game. The artwork is magnificent, the pacing is perfect, the movement control is masterful, and the soundtrack slaps. Thanks guys.

[@loweni7460]

You really dug into the meat and potatoes of this story

[@gutstheblackknight6393]

We need more iron meat

[@johnnygreen2556]

I died at 4:33

[@darkranger116]

i really like how shovel knight started this whole trend of "there's 1 other survivor and they get the 2nd game in the series"

[@badbuddy0934]

Wallmart James from Pokémon.

[@wargamesstore2374]

Very Good!

[@strikeforce1500]

Yuri is basically a 10 intelligence, 1 wisdom character.

[@ChristopherGriffin-ee2ol]

If the meat and Tyranids encounter each other, I can bet that it would be a biomass extravaganza just instantly. Honestly, why didn't they deploy the Tyranids to clean up the meat?

[@deathcold_longplaysua4846]

Cool game, but it's plot reminds me a lot of game called Carrion, where you playing as this meat monster who escaped from the lab and are trying to get out of the facility where he was held. So it feels like we are playing as the opposite to that monster, which is humans, who are trying to stop this monster. That is what it looks like and feels like. But anyway, like I said, a cool game.

[@talica19161]

The game is fun. Dlc or a sequel would be amazing.

[@supratikghoshal5561]

Somehow the story has influence of nes games like Abadox, Gradius or Salamander (all shmups) where planets get eaten by some cosmic celestial creature.

[@Ultrawave231]

I would like to see an infection mod made from iron meat.

[@nickkorkodylas5005]

So the goal of this game is to beat the meat?

[@micahmonroe674]

Hope there's a dlc soon

[@darkblu117zcrookedneck8]

Can you do a Story of Voidwrought?

[@alikvidator]

Я удивлён тому что историю игры рассказывает иностранец и при это очень интересно. А наши только и делают что про геймплей рассказывают. Всеровно очень интересно получилось.

[@silentvi6788]

Hope you guys sold this gem well so I can wait for another amazing run&gun game

[@jimpostlethwait405]

1:45 hmm, A scientist doing unsanctioned tests involving a different dimension? WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THAT BEFORE?

[@egh_7]

To say this game is amazing does not do it justice as it is clearly better then that!

[@elxero2189]

Thisbwas great

[@Tulia92]

13:50 хулиарды. Это прям отлично.

[@MilesHorstman]

My favorite boss from iron meat is the carrionvoy

[@LordOmnissiah]

I’m getting Genocyber vajranoid vibes from the meat. Think someone on the development team either watched the Genocyber OVA or Akira.

[@Tonk029]

Iron meat Sound track when?

[@shawdcummings2160]

Missed opportunity to ask can you beat the meat 😂

[@lBorosDavidl]

So the Meat is basically the Root from Remnant

[@Zebra_fandomfella03]

Croctocopter is called Flying Crocodile

[@NukieDookie]

It’s like “a robot named fight” but not

[@dreamcazman]

I really like this game however one major issue which I don't seem to be able to find an answer for (and nobody else is talking about) is the RAISED BLACK LEVELS in the game. I'm playing on PS5 and the game looks really washed out and over exposed, like I'm playing on a bad LCD. Cutscene movies are ok, it's the ingame graphics. It's not my console or TV (I have an OLED), I've gone through the played around with the settings, disabled and re-enabled HDR, etc, nothing helps. Every other game looks fine, except this one, I have to resort to turning the black level down on the TV so the game looks decent. I also downloaded the PC demo and it's the same! Is this by design or a bug that will be patched? Please let me know, thanks for an otherwise great game!

[@Soosisya]

10:27 - Цой жив!

[@Arthas972]

Source? This is cool lore

[@danj-g6p]

Pretty weird Arbys commercial.

[@slemven8266]

Ты забыл сказать что луна преобразилась на уровне "небо" и вроде" город".🧐

[@RandomPotatas]

The only meat yuri will be experimenting is mine

[@vevans0009]

Hint of Iron Meat 2?

[@Thai_ha19xx]

3:24 heavy minigun reborn into a human (this game is made in Russia so it make sense)

[@BrandonVGOriginal]

¿Sera que el planeta rojo(marte) fue anteriormente un planeta con una civilización alienígena pero que descubieron la carne y no pudieron detenerlo? Se imaginan que en la secuela o dlc muestre que habia una especie alienígena en marte