Iron Curtain Call
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Upcoming games like BioShock, and what is on Steam before the next one

By Whale Development Studios, the studio behind Iron Curtain Call. Published 5 November 2026. Every date, price, platform and demo below was checked on the US Steam store on 6 November 2026; the sources are listed at the end.

Iron Curtain Call in first person: a white rubber hose cartoon glove lands a WALLOP! punch on a golden robot in a theatre, the Care Package rocket launcher in the other hand
Iron Curtain Call, chapter 12, Curtain Call. A real gameplay frame; the comic word is the game’s own.
The short answer

No new Rapture yet. Here are eight near misses.

Steam has no page for a new BioShock on 6 November 2026, so this guide lists the unreleased games on Steam that share something with it. Going by their own Steam pages: Judas is made by Ghost Story Games, the studio led by Ken Levine, who was Creative Director of BioShock. Clockwork Revolution is a steampunk first person role playing game with time travel as your power. Atomic Heart 2 is the retrofuturistic sequel with glove abilities. Welcome to Brightville calls itself an immersive sim in a city that an AI controls. Powerfuel is a free dieselpunk shooter with elemental powers, Deeper Still a hard immersive sim in a dystopian world, Remnants of R’lyeh a survival horror game in decaying underwater cities, and ProtoPunk a fast steampunk movement shooter. None of them is a copy of BioShock, and we say what each one lacks.

Iron Curtain Call is ours. Its look is a 1930s rubber hose cartoon, and its country is run by a customer service machine, which is the satire. It is a fast arena shooter and not an immersive sim, so do not come for a city to explore. It is due on Steam on 11 March 2027, and its demo is free on Steam.

Only three of the eight have a release day on Steam: Powerfuel on 13 November 2026, Deeper Still on 2 December 2026 and Remnants of R’lyeh on 14 January 2027. Clockwork Revolution and ProtoPunk show only the year 2027, and Judas, Atomic Heart 2 and Welcome to Brightville show no date at all. Those three also had a free demo on Steam on 6 November 2026, and so does Iron Curtain Call. Its demo is Mission 1, and the parry comes with the full game on 11 March 2027.

At a glance

Nine games, side by side.

Checked on the US Steam store and Wikipedia on 6 November 2026. Prices are list prices in US dollars before any sale; Steam sets its own prices in other countries, and lists none yet for any game here but Powerfuel, which is free to play. Five games had no release day on Steam on that day; Clockwork Revolution and ProtoPunk show only the year 2027.
GameWhat it shares with BioShockHow it playsFree demo on SteamUS priceOut
Iron Curtain CallOur gameA 1930s rubber hose cartoon look, satire, and a state gone wrong under a machine in charge; no powers system and no city to exploreSingle player campaign; fast and close range; parry pink attacks in the full gameYes, free: Mission 1, about 15 to 20 minutesNot priced yet11 March 2027Free demo since 28 October 2026
JudasSteam: made by Ghost Story Games, a studio led by the Creative Director of BioShock; Steam’s user tags include Immersive SimSingle player narrative first person shooter, on a starship that is falling apartNoNot priced yetComing soon, no date yet
Clockwork RevolutionSteam: a steampunk city with a class divide, a device that changes the past, and choices that reshape the citySingle player first person role playing game; hack robots, craft gadgets, control timeNoNot priced yetComing soon, no date yet
Atomic Heart 2Steam: dystopia and retrofuturism in an alternate history; Wikipedia says a world on the brink of collapseSingle player action role playing game in first person; glove abilities with melee and ranged weaponsNoNot priced yetComing soon, no date yet
Welcome to BrightvilleSteam: an immersive sim in a city controlled by an AI, where magic and steampunk technology collideSingle player action adventure; offensive and defensive spells you combine, as an automatonNoNot priced yetComing soon, no date yet
PowerfuelSteam: elemental powers and a conspiracy under a boom town’s prosperity, in a dieselpunk worldSingle player fast shooter; burn, freeze and electrify, with a dashYes, freeFree to play13 November 2026
Deeper StillSteam: a hard immersive sim in a dystopian world, with weapons, paths and abilities to choose fromSingle player or co op; die, plan again and retry each levelYes, freeNot priced yet2 December 2026
Remnants of R'lyehSteam: decaying underwater cities and Victorian steampunk machinerySingle player first person survival horror with firearms, melee and puzzlesYes, freeNot priced yet14 January 2027
ProtoPunkSteam: a steampunk city and a corruption choking it; you slow time to line up shotsSingle player speedrunning shooter and platformer; kills feed your speedNoNot priced yetComing soon, no date yet
The games

One by one, who each is for.

Each entry says who the game is for, what it shares with BioShock and how it differs from Iron Curtain Call. The facts under each come from its Steam page on 6 November 2026, and for Judas, Clockwork Revolution and Atomic Heart 2 also from their Wikipedia articles. Five games have no release day yet, so treat what they promise as plans.

Iron Curtain Call

Our game

Play it if you want a satire with a 1930s cartoon look and a state gone wrong, played as a fast shooter, and you want to try it for free first.

It is an alternate 1965, year three of World War III. Humanity ran out of soldiers, so the war is fought by wind up tin robots run by the Supreme Chancellor, a customer service machine that was handed a country. You are Corporal Punishment, a silent soldier delivered to the front like cargo, and Colonel Panic is on the radio: “I’d send backup, but you are the backup.”

Here is the honest fit. It shares BioShock’s joke about an ideal society run badly, in an old fashioned look of its own (a 1930s rubber hose cartoon), only the joke is ours and the machine in charge is a call centre. It is not an immersive sim. It does not ask you to read a city, choose how to approach a room or learn a set of powers; it asks you to keep moving. The fighting is close: a punch gives you health, a can opener cracks a robot open for ammo. Robots burst into bolts, springs and scrap; there is no blood.

The free demo is Mission 1, Welcome to Rubbleton: about 15 to 20 minutes, ending with the first boss, Major Disaster. It has no parry; that comes with the full game.

Developer and publisher
Whale Development Studios
Out
11 March 2027
Free demo out
28 October 2026
On Steam
Windows and macOS (demo on Windows, macOS and Linux)
US list price
Not priced yet
Demo
Yes, free

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Iron Curtain Call in first person: a white cartoon glove holds a typewriter submachine gun as a grinning steam train marked 6:15 bursts out of a brick tunnel
Chapter 1, Rubbleton: the 6:15 express, in the free demo. A real gameplay frame.

Judas

Play it if you want the next game from the BioShock director, and you can wait for a date that nobody has given.

Steam describes Judas as a narrative first person shooter developed by Ghost Story Games, a studio led by Ken Levine, Creative Director of System Shock 2, BioShock and BioShock Infinite. You play Judas on a disintegrating starship, with a desperate escape plan and a choice of making or breaking alliances with your worst enemies, in Steam’s words. Wikipedia lists it as an upcoming first person shooter.

That is all Steam says about how it plays. The page lists the game as single player and coming soon with no date, and its user tags include Immersive Sim, FPS and Story Rich. We cannot tell you it has plasmids or a city; we can tell you who is making it.

The closest game here in lineage and the least known in detail. It is a starship and not an art deco city, and it had no demo on Steam on 6 November 2026.

Developer and publisher
Ghost Story Games
Out
Coming soon, no date yet
On Steam
Windows
US list price
Not priced yet
Demo
None on Steam

Clockwork Revolution

Play it if you want a steampunk city with a class war in it, powers that bend time, and a story that remembers your choices.

inXile Entertainment’s Clockwork Revolution is, in Steam’s words, a steampunk first person role playing game. You wield a device that travels back in time, changing the past and rewriting the future of Avalon, a Victorian era metropolis of automaton robots and clockwork limbs, while a ruthless villain, Lady Ironwood, has been manipulating time to keep the working class struggling. Steam lists building a character, hacking hostile robots, crafting steampunk weapons and gadgets, and controlling time.

Steam promises choices that reshape characters, shops and the city itself, and a world with class warfare and occult machinery that it calls darkly funny. Wikipedia lists it as an upcoming action role playing game from Xbox Game Studios. Steam shows only the year 2027, not a day.

The nearest in spirit to a city gone wrong with a power in your hand; it is a role playing game and not a pure shooter. It had no demo on Steam on 6 November 2026.

Developer
inXile Entertainment
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Out
Coming soon, no date yet
On Steam
Windows
US list price
Not priced yet
Demo
None on Steam

Atomic Heart 2

Play it if you want a retrofuturistic dystopia with robots and abilities in your glove, on a bigger scale than the first game.

Mundfish’s Atomic Heart 2 is, in Steam’s words, an action adventure role playing game in the retrofuturistic universe of an alternate history, with dystopia and retrofuturism and a combat system where glove abilities combine with melee and ranged weapons. It is the sequel to the game Wikipedia calls a first person shooter, and Wikipedia says the sequel is a first person shooter with role playing mechanics.

Wikipedia adds that the story picks up in a world on the brink of societal collapse and, according to Mundfish, will explore the ethics of artificial intelligence and control. Steam lists it as coming soon with the date to be announced.

It shares a utopia that turns on its makers and a power in your hands, and loses the cartoon: ours is a comedy, with tin robots that burst into bolts. It had no demo on Steam on 6 November 2026; the first game has one, see our alternate history guide.

Developer and publisher
Mundfish
Out
Coming soon, no date yet
On Steam
Windows
US list price
Not priced yet
Demo
None on Steam

Welcome to Brightville

Play it if you want a small team’s immersive sim with magic in a steampunk city, and spells you combine.

Contrast Games’ Welcome to Brightville is, in Steam’s words, an action adventure immersive sim. You play an automaton unaffected by the influence of the AI that controls the city of Brightville, a place where magic and steampunk technology collide. Steam lists offensive and defensive spells that combine and change the environment, a reactive world, and a mix of industrial Victorian architecture and neo baroque extravagance.

Steam calls it a mana punk world where magic fuels machines. The page lists the game as single player and coming soon, with the date to be announced.

Its powers are spells and its ruler is an AI, which is the nearest this list gets to the machine in charge in ours; it is an exploration game with spells, not an arena shooter. It had no demo on Steam on 6 November 2026.

Developer and publisher
Contrast Games
Out
Coming soon, no date yet
On Steam
Windows
US list price
Not priced yet
Demo
None on Steam

Powerfuel

Play it if you want elemental powers in a fast shooter with a conspiracy in a boom town, and a demo to try before it is out.

Reforged Studios’ Powerfuel is, in Steam’s words, an action FPS in a gritty dieselpunk world, where fast shooting meets the elemental abilities of the Powerfuels. You burn, freeze and electrify enemies, set up slowing zones and chain reactions, and play the Cricket, an ex criminal with mechanical legs that let him dash. Steam says the Great War ended fifteen years before the story, that the US government announced the discovery of magic, and that rumors of a conspiracy are surfacing in New Lyon.

Steam lists the game as free to play with a release day of 13 November 2026, and a free demo, Windows only.

A free demo of it was on Steam on 6 November 2026, as ours is, and its Steam text calls it fast paced, as ours is. It trades satire for a dark conspiracy.

Developer
Reforged Studios
Publisher
AIV Accademia Italiana Videogiochi
Released
13 November 2026
On Steam
Windows (demo on Windows)
US list price
Free to play
Demo
Yes, free

Deeper Still

Play it if you want a hard immersive sim where you plan, die and plan again, alone or with a friend.

Alexandre Atangana’s Deeper Still is, in Steam’s words, a hard immersive sim set in a dystopian and nihilistic world. To finish each level you start with a plan, choosing weapons, paths and abilities, then die, find a better plan and repeat, and replay levels to find new ways through. Steam says to play solo or with a friend, around 5 hours for the main content, and warns that the visuals are psychedelic.

Steam lists a release day of 2 December 2026 and a free demo, Windows only.

The only game here that calls itself an immersive sim and has a demo today; it is a die and retry game and not a story about a city. Over the top violence is among its listed draws, so it is far from our cartoon tone.

Developer and publisher
Alexandre ATANGANA
Released
2 December 2026
On Steam
Windows (demo on Windows)
US list price
Not priced yet
Demo
Yes, free

Remnants of R'lyeh

Play it if you want to descend through decaying underwater cities, with firearms, puzzles and dread, and try a demo first.

Darktree Game Studio’s Remnants of R’lyeh is, in Steam’s words, a first person survival horror game inspired by the cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft. You play a deep sea diver drawn into a forgotten realm beneath the ocean, exploring decaying underwater cities, scavenging, solving puzzles and fighting creatures with firearms and melee weapons.

Steam describes Victorian steampunk and biomechanical environments, and lists a release day of 14 January 2027 and a free demo, Windows only.

It has the sunken city and none of the glamour: the mood is horror and not satire, and there is no art deco in its Steam text.

Developer
Darktree Game Studio
Publisher
Ultimate Games S.A., Ultimate Publishing and PlayWay S.A.
Released
14 January 2027
On Steam
Windows (demo on Windows)
US list price
Not priced yet
Demo
Yes, free

ProtoPunk

Play it if you like the steampunk look but want to move fast, with time slowing to line up your shots.

Team Studio Games’ ProtoPunk is, in Steam’s words, a fast paced steampunk movement FPS. You gun down robots with a revolver to gain speed, slow the gears of time to sharpen your aim, and slide and boost through a city to uncover your past and stop the corruption choking it. The long description calls it a speedrunning FPS platformer.

It is single player and coming soon. Steam shows only the year 2027, not a day.

It shares the steampunk look and the speed with ours, and little of BioShock besides a city that is rotten from within. It had no demo on Steam on 6 November 2026.

Developer and publisher
Team Studio Games
Out
Coming soon, no date yet
On Steam
Windows
US list price
Not priced yet
Demo
None on Steam
The checklist

What makes a game like BioShock?

Wikipedia describes BioShock as a first person shooter in which you arrive at Rapture, an underwater city that a business magnate built to be an isolated utopia, and whose decline began with ADAM, a genetic material that gives superhuman powers. You fight with weapons and with plasmids, which give unique powers, and you can use the city’s own defenses against its citizens by hacking them. Wikipedia calls the series retrofuturistic, says it combines shooter and role playing elements and counts it as part of the immersive sim genre, and notes its ideas about philosophy and morals, influenced by objectivism and American exceptionalism.

That gives four things to look for in a Steam page. Powers beside the guns: Clockwork Revolution, Atomic Heart 2, Welcome to Brightville and Powerfuel offer them. A retro or art deco look: the retrofuturism of Atomic Heart 2 and the steampunk of several others, and our rubber hose cartoon. A society that has gone wrong: Clockwork Revolution, Atomic Heart 2, Welcome to Brightville and Deeper Still lean on it. Satire: the least common, and the one a Steam page rarely promises; Steam calls Clockwork Revolution darkly funny. Wikipedia defines an immersive sim as a game of simulated systems that respond to many player actions, so that you can solve problems in varied ways; only a few games here, Welcome to Brightville and Deeper Still by their own words, say they are one.

No game on this list has all four, and we do not pretend any does. Iron Curtain Call has the look and the satire, and not the immersive sim.

The next one

What about BioShock 4?

It is not on the list because it is not on Steam. Wikipedia says 2K announced that a new BioShock game is in development at a new studio, Cloud Chamber, and that it was some years from release at the time. On 6 November 2026 Steam had no store page for it, and we found no source we could cite that gives a date, so we do not guess one.

If you have not played the ones that are out, BioShock Remastered is the first game, on Steam for Windows and macOS since 15 September 2016, and BioShock Infinite has been on Steam since 25 March 2013.

Left out on purpose

Looked at and not listed

We went through Steam’s coming soon lists by tag and by keyword on 6 November 2026, and kept games that are first person, have a Steam page and share at least one of the four things above. Many of the results were not games like BioShock at all. Thief: The Dark Project Remastered is a first person classic that Steam lists with a release day of 3 December 2026; it is a stealth game with a steampunk tag, not a shooter with powers, so it is left off, though a BioShock fan may like it.

If it is an older city of the same kind you want, the retro futuristic guide and the alternate history guide cover the games that are out now.

Questions

Questions players ask

What are the best upcoming games like BioShock?

By their Steam pages on 6 November 2026: Judas, made by the studio led by BioShock’s Creative Director; Clockwork Revolution for a steampunk city with time powers; Atomic Heart 2 for a retrofuturistic dystopia; Welcome to Brightville and Deeper Still for immersive sims; and Powerfuel for elemental powers in a fast shooter. Iron Curtain Call is our own, with a free demo and a different kind of game.

Is there a new BioShock game coming out?

Not with a date. Wikipedia says 2K announced a new BioShock game in development at Cloud Chamber, and Steam had no store page for it on 6 November 2026, so this guide does not list a release for it.

Is Judas the next BioShock?

No. It is a separate game by Ghost Story Games, whose Steam page says it is led by Ken Levine, Creative Director of BioShock. Steam describes a narrative first person shooter on a disintegrating starship, lists Windows, and shows coming soon with no date.

Are there any new games like BioShock with powers?

Steam lists elemental abilities in Powerfuel, spells in Welcome to Brightville, time control in Clockwork Revolution and glove abilities in Atomic Heart 2. None has plasmids by name; they are the nearest we found.

Which upcoming games like BioShock have a free demo?

On 6 November 2026: Deeper Still, Powerfuel and Remnants of R’lyeh, and Iron Curtain Call, with a free demo on Steam that is Mission 1, about 15 to 20 minutes, without the parry (it comes with the full game). Judas, Clockwork Revolution, Atomic Heart 2, Welcome to Brightville and ProtoPunk had none. Our list of free FPS demos has more.

Are there games like BioShock I can play now?

Yes. BioShock itself is on Steam, and our retro futuristic guide, noir guide and alternate history guide list shooters with a retro city that are out now. You can also play 60 seconds of Iron Curtain Call in your browser.

Is Iron Curtain Call like BioShock?

In some ways. It has a 1930s rubber hose cartoon look, satire and a state run by a machine, and it is due on 11 March 2027. It is a fast arena shooter and not an immersive sim: there is no city to explore and no plasmids. Try the free demo before you decide.

Sources

Every fact on this page comes from these pages, read on 6 November 2026. Prices and dates change; the store page always has the final word.

  1. Iron Curtain Call, Steam store page
  2. Judas, Steam store page
  3. Clockwork Revolution, Steam store page
  4. Atomic Heart 2, Steam store page
  5. Welcome to Brightville, Steam store page
  6. Powerfuel, Steam store page
  7. Deeper Still, Steam store page
  8. Remnants of R'lyeh, Steam store page
  9. ProtoPunk, Steam store page
  10. BioShock (series), Wikipedia
  11. BioShock, Wikipedia
  12. BioShock Infinite, Wikipedia
  13. Immersive sim, Wikipedia
  14. Judas (video game), Wikipedia
  15. Clockwork Revolution, Wikipedia
  16. Atomic Heart 2, Wikipedia
  17. Atomic Heart, Wikipedia

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