Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons arrives on Steam

Kasedo Games' futuristic RTS Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons, the tale of a mercenary company trapped on a planet overrun by enemy forces, (who are also mechs and mercs, but crucially wearing different outfits), is now

It's single-player only, which is kind of unusual for the RTS genre, but it doesn't take a whole lot of hardware to run—the recommended spec is a dual-core CPU at 2.4GHz or higher, 4GB RAM, and a GeForce 8800 GTX—and it offers Steam trading cards and achievements, which are always nice. 

However, the user reviews, to use Steam's own parlance, are "mixed"—almost perfectly so, currently sitting at 20 positive and 19 negative. That's hardly a ringing endorsement, but there actually seems to be a good bit of common ground between the two sides, including comments/complaints about the high degree of difficulty, spotty AI, and some rough edges that will hopefully be smoothed down in future patches.

Mechs & Mercs: Black Talons is available until January 16 for 15 percent off its regular price of $20. A boxed version, for those who you who enjoy such things, comes out on January 23.