26 Jun 2026Developer post

HARDCORE MECHA Turns 7! Celebrate with Our Biggest-Ever 70% OFF Sale!

Hello, Pilots! Today marks the 7th anniversary of HARDCORE MECHA ! Happy 7th Birthday, Harmecha! 🎉 Time really flies. It's hard to believe that 2019 was already seven years ago. Looking back on this incredible journey—from our crowdfunding campaign, to winning awards, launching

28 Nov 2025Developer post

HARDCORE MECHA Official Offline Tournament is Coming!

On December 7th, at the Shanghai BGM Game Show, RocketPunch Games and Lightning Games will host the official HARDCORE MECHA Offline PvP Event! We are launching the 2025 "King of Hardcore" Tournament, featuring a special Gurren Lagann Top 4 Free-For-All Exhibition Match. We are no

21 Jun 2022Developer post

3rd Anniversary of HARDCORE MECHA! 52% OFF Historical Low!

Happy 3rd Anniversary of HARDCORE MECHA! Steam Summer Sale is underway again. Every tear at this time, we'll be seeing big discount and it is the time to snap up a bargain. We'll also recall all the memory about Hardcore Mecha's release at that time. ( HaMei (which is the first t

Happy 3rd Anniversary of HARDCORE MECHA!

Steam Summer Sale is underway again. Every tear at this time, we'll be seeing big discount and it is the time to snap up a bargain.

We'll also recall all the memory about Hardcore Mecha's release at that time. ( HaMei (which is the first two initials in English and means a cute little girl in Chinese) is the nickname of HARDCORE MECHA called by team members, so we use HaMei to refer in the following content)

It's hard to believe that it's already been 3 years since HARDCORE MECHA 's release! HaMe is 3 years old and is a cute lady already!

From a small studio of three people, working on a "hovering balcony" (our balcony is on the outside of the building and looks like it's hovered in the air), to the release of the prototype machine on Weibo. Even though little people shows interest in that, it slowly attracted many like-minded friends to join the team and to form the original 7 people of "Unlicensed Developer Group".From the beginning of crowdfunding on Kickstarter, to the little-known project at Tokyo Games Show; from the success of crowdfunding, to the Independent Game Award at Tokyo Game Show.
Even though the game was postponed twice and finally came out to face the patiently waiting players, it unexpectedly won a variety of super cool achieements and awards, including the PlayStation Indies&developer game awards. HaMe witnessed RocketPunch and all RocketPunch developers' one and another first time.

（hovering balcony）

In this journey of ups and downs, we have gained too much. Looking back at our own design of mecha body into physical models, our own creation of the game launched more platforms and even successfully collaborated with our own favorite animation, nothing can happen without all your support!

We would like to take the opportunity of the 3rd birthday of HaMe to say a word to you, to who have been with us for three years. THANK YOU, THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!

In the future, with the company of HaMe, we will work harder and harder to make more and more interesting games, and to fight the strongest "Rocket Punch"!

At last, in order to celebrate HaMei's third birthday, Hardcore Mecha will start a new lowest discount on Steam. opening time: June 22 0:00 to June 24 0:00 and June 24 1:00 am to July 8 1:00 am (CST). If you'd like join the Ace pilot, please pay attention to the recent Steam Summer Sale~~

At the final last, we hope the COVID pandemic ends soon and all goes well with the two projects that currently we're working on, and hope you all happiness!
Making games is really great!

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19 Dec 2020Developer post

Optimized performance & Introduce the new Replay Feature!

Dear Ace Pilots！ It is almost the end of the year, 2020 has been a year like no other in our lifetime. We would like to send our thoughts and best wishes to everyone, and we feel super lucky to have all our players’ support. In this last update for HARDCORE MECHA this year, we ar

Dear Ace Pilots！

It is almost the end of the year, 2020 has been a year like no other in our lifetime.
We would like to send our thoughts and best wishes to everyone, and we feel super lucky to have all our players’ support.

In this last update for HARDCORE MECHA this year, we are introducing the brand-new Reply Function, which can be used to record exciting matches to view as playback and share with friends!

Below is the list of updates:

- Introducing ‘Replay Function’

Save replay function added. Online Battles will automatically save replays by default, while a prompt will appear after Local Battles. Go to Settings to change replay save configurations.

Replay browser interfaces added. Enter via the Multiplayer menu to inspect, play, pin, or delete locally saved replay info.
When the number of replay files reaches the storage limit, the system will delete the oldest unlocked replay files first. So please remember to lock the replay files you would like to keep.

Play replay function added. Adjust speed, switch players, or switch to free cam while playing a replay, We hope these functions will be helpful for you in battle analysis and video creation.

*Replay files will be save here: C:\\\Users\\\Your Windows Account\\\AppData\\\LocalLow\\\RocketPunch Games\\\HARDCORE MECHA\\\Saves\\\ReplayFiles
Or entre: %appdata%/../LocalLow/RocketPunch Games/HARDCORE MECHA/Saves/ReplayFiles
*replay files are not video files and can only be played within the game. Since the replay files generated under the old version can no longer be played after the game is updated, it is recommended that you permanently save your favourite battle moments through screen recording before the update

Adjustments to Simulation Mode
●Enhanced the functionality of advanced weapons in Simulation Mode.
●Added intermediate and advanced attachments for sale.
●Changed lowest quality of dropped intermediate and advanced attachments to green.

Adjustments to Multiplayer
Dragoon / Sabre
●Reduced the damage of Dragoon’s dual-beam cannons.
●Reduced the damage of Dragoon’s charge cannon.
●Increased Dragoon’s kill score.
●Decreased Sabre’s kill score.

Halberd
●Reduced guided-missile speed.
●Reduced guided-missile capacity.
●Increased APCR missile damage.

We wish you a safe and an early Happy new year, may the New Year bring good health, happiness and good fortune.

A blessed festive season to all!

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02 Oct 2020Developer post

“Who the hell do you think I am?!”Cup has started right away!

Rules: Record the funny or cool game moment with new DLC mecha Gurren Lagann. Tweet with #Hardcoremecha, #GurrenLagann, and #俺を誰だと思っていやがる杯 Schedule: From now to Oct. 15th, CST Prize: Winner: Gurren Lagann figure from CCSTOYS X1

01 Oct 2020Developer post

The drill to break heaven!!! New DLC ——Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Classical mecha animation Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann collaborate with action game first! Gurren Lagann, Lagann, and Simon are all under your control. Witness the time and the space to be broken! Your drill will break heaven!! Brand new Hardcore Mecha DLC Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan

Classical mecha animation Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann collaborate with action game first! Gurren Lagann, Lagann, and Simon are all under your control. Witness the time and the space to be broken! Your drill will break heaven!! Brand new Hardcore Mecha DLC Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan is live now!

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From the developer

Gurren Boomerang、Skull Break、Full Drillized、Fire Cart Kick、Giga Drill Break...
Under the technology limit and game balance, We reduce most abilities in the game, and these can be controlled by your hands.

If you ask us what we insist, so we have to mention the most important feature of Hardcore Mecha------To make players feel the mecha from the anime, and this time we did it again.

For example, in the anime when Gurren Lagan throws its glasses out to freeze the enemy than raise its giant drill. Generally speaking, these two movements should be together and hit the target 100%, but we decide to split them into two parts,

Players will find out Giga Drill Break is hard to hit someone who has prepared for defense, so this time you need to charge Gurren Boomerang to freeze the enemy, then dash to cancel backswing, so you can start Giga Drill Break. When you finish your enemy with your combo, we believe everyone can understand why Kamina create these with his life. If everyone can feel what Simon feels when he cast abilities, we will very glad to see that.

Thanks to the pilot feature, we can restore Simon in the game. We design ability with high damage for Simon------Core Drill.

Just like the battle of the Spiral King in the anime, everyone has a chance to damage the enemy's mecha.

There is still much exciting design in the game, but we hope the player can find them out in the DLC. We hope you enjoy the game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1344050/1/

This DLC contains Gurren-Lagann, Lagann and pilot Simon. The DLC supports Local & Online Multiplayer Mode, Training Mode and Single-player Simulation Mode.
*To unlock Simulation Mode by completing Campaign Mode.

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24 Sep 2020Developer post

See you tonight @Tokyo Game Show 2020!

Tokyo Game Show 2020 will be kicked-off on September 24! (That's later today :)) And we have prepared interviews with our awesome dev teams, with some exclusive behind the scenes talk and footage of the making of HARDCORE MECHA! Watch the show at NicoNico , Youtube , Twitch or Tw

04 Sep 2020Developer post

Gurren Lagann X HARDCORE MECHA, Collaboration Decided!

‘S●W ACT version’——This nickname is given by players from China and overseas. Also the reason we created Hardcore Mecha is we want to play S●W in an action game. And Now! It’s time to take the next step to our dreams. "Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!" Gurren

06 Aug 2020Developer post

New Trailer Released! ANNO: Mutationem coming soon on STEAM & PS4!

Lightning Games is proud to announce our partnership with the talented developer team of ThinkingStars, together to release the title ANNO: Mutationem on Playstation4 and PC platform. ANNO: Mutationem is a 2.5D Pixel art-styled Cyberpunk Action-Adventure game, filled with RPG ele

19 Jun 2020Developer post

HARDOCRE MECHA 1 year anniversary sale launching now on Steam!

With all the support from our players along the way, HARDCORE MECHA is having its first birthday! To say a big thank you to all our old & new friends, we are eager to improve and bring you the best HARDCORE MECHA experience. In today’s latest update, we are bringing in a bran

19 Jun 2020Developer post

Version update 1.11, PVP experience upgrade

Nothing can stop us delivering the latest updates to our players, not even during this troubling time. We as a small indie dev team has been hurt again and again by the complicated network environment setting for the game’s online PVP feature. The good news is that we did not giv

Nothing can stop us delivering the latest updates to our players, not even during this troubling time.

We as a small indie dev team has been hurt again and again by the complicated network environment setting for the game’s online PVP feature. The good news is that we did not give up! And have finally managed to improve the PVP features, we cannot wait to share this massively optimized experience with you!

This update includes:

Added in AI battle bots, supporting both local multiplayer & online PVP modes

Introducing AI battle bots with 3 different skill levels, available in both local multiplayer & online PVP modes. By adding AI battle bots into your team or as opponents, making an exciting battle easier than ever!

fully customizable controller configuration setup

Players can now enjoy fully customized controller setup. Pilots who were bothered by the default key settings, now is your time to shine! (And we encourage everyone to share your settings in the community!)
Considering how every pilot has different operating habit, we also prepared separate controller setting for each player in the Local multiplayer game mode.

Improved efficiency for multiplayer matchmaking

HARDCORE MECHA’s matchmaking network performance now with significant improvement.

Fixed the instability of the battle room due to individual high ping player

Added in basic tutorials for multiplayer game mode

Now supporting French and Russian

Optimized art details in the Story mode

That’s all for this time’s update! Stay healthy and safe everyone!

-------------------------------------------------- 1st-year Anniversary--------------------------------

With all the support from our players along the way, HARDCORE MECHA is having its first birthday!

To say a big thank you to all our old & new friends, we are eager to improve and bring you the best HARDCORE MECHA experience.
In today’s latest update, we are bringing in a brand new, optimized PVP experience, now its time to gear up! Invite your friends to join this intriguing mecha adventure, and enjoy the most exciting battle of steel!

Get HARDCORE MECHA on Steam with a historical low of 40% off, from today until June 26th

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10 Jun 2020Developer post

HARDCORE MECHA is landing on Switch October 2020!

HARDCORE MECHA is landing on Nintendo Switch October 2020! We are so hyped about working with Lightning games to publish it. Enjoy this exciting battle of steel anywhere, anytime!

30 Apr 2020Developer post

Auto weapon reload & version 1.10

Have you guys stayed in own home recently? In order to ensure the safety of the team members, we are still implementing a complete online office system. Although the efficiency is indeed affected to varying degrees, we still send the latest updates! Stay happy and fight against t

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The end of the year is upon us once again! Season's greetings and best wishes for a bright and happy New Year.

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Classical mecha animation Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann collaborate with action game first! Gurren Lagann, Lagann, and Simon are all under your control. Witness the time and the space to be broken! Your drill will break heaven!! Brand new Hardcore Mecha DLC Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan is live now!

From the developer

"Your drill is the drill that will pierce the heavens!"

Gurren Lagann, The most hardcore mecha animation in the Heisei Era coming to the most hardcore indie mech game——HARDCORE MECHA

This update fixes a bug that appears unexpectedly in this previous version, and the mouse cannot control the direction of the meele.

Get HARDCORE MECHA on Steam with a historical low of 40% off, from today until 26th June.

Spread the words, invite your friends to join the most exciting battle of steel!

Added in AI battle bots, supporting both local multiplayer & online PVP modes

fully customizable controller configuration setup

Improved efficiency for multiplayer matchmaking

Fixed the instability of the battle room due to individual high ping player

Added in basic tutorials for multiplayer game mode

Now supporting French and Russian

Optimized art details in the Story mode

Get HARDCORE MECHA on Steam with a historical low of 40% off, from today until June 26th

Auto weapon reload has been added to all game modes. Reload can be more convenient to use

Fixed several animation error and effect display error in simulation mode

Fixed several weapon icon display error in simulation mode

Fixed the bug where gear chest disappear in certain cases in simulation mode

Tuned the difficulty of later phase of single player campaign, made it a smoother experience

Fixed some text display bugs

Other experience-related improvements

See you next update!