Vixen 357 Steam Port Lands In 2026 With Rewind And Permadeath Intact
The port preserves the design that made Vixen 357 an outlier for its era, permanent loss of destroyed pilots and units, instead of softening it into a modern tactics game.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Ratalaika Games and Shinyuden plan to bring the 1992 Mega Drive robot SRPG Vixen 357 to PC via Steam in 2026. The port keeps the original's turn-based grid combat, 16 maps, free pilot and unit composition, and permadeath, while adding a gallery, rewind, speed-up, save anywhere, screen filters, and cheats. The store page lists Japanese support.
The game began as a Masaya release for the Mega Drive in 1992, sharing a worldview with the 1990 title Kaiserad. Its story opens in AD 2396, when the special unit Slash, operating the humanoid weapon VECTOR built by the new nation Melizmahap, is attacked by an unidentified enemy during training. The player is pilot Takuya Murazawa.
Combat is turn-based across grid maps, 16 of them. Pilots and units are combined freely, armaments change by unit, and destroyed pilots and units do not return.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.