Iron Harvest

I bought it for the aesthetic and the gameplay that I saw in videos/trailers and I was not disappointed with Iron Harvest. The feel of the game is fantastic, the campaign is amazing (Great voice acting in the original languages and great animations to tell you a story); playing skirmishes against AI is also fun and I do not play multiplayer, so if you are interested in that aspect of the game keep in mind that many people have issues with the overall balance of it. There's occasional bugs and glitches that I have experienced for example: a) Loading screens that never stop when you press CONTINUE in the main menu (to continue with the campaign). But this can be fixed by making sure you save your campaign progress using the save option and loading back to that save file whenever you come back, it works better than clicking continue, for some reason the autosave feature on this game does not work properly. b) Immortal enemies, some enemies may glitch out and never die, reloading the save USUALLY works and fixes this c) Some of my units get stuck in terrain. There are some parts of the campaign maps that are untraversable, but from time to time, units may ignore collision with these paths and get stuck inside of this terrain. This happens exclusively to mech units (yet to see this happening to infantry. Some units have special abilities that may help them get out of this situations, some others do not. NOTE: Units getting stuck in terrain due to them ignoring collision in other RTS games is easily solved by deleting the unit/killing it. The devs for this game decided that having a delete function for this game was not necessary and not something they wanted in this game, because according to them every unit you spawn must be a "Commitment". (I personally think this is the wrong direction to take but whatever floats their boat) That being said, the Deluxe Edition of the game is totally worth it with the DLC included, give it a shot if you are a fan of this genre.

So much love in this game <3 octobre 7, 2020 Pros : - Graphic : great! - Sound : very nice OST (even if the game deserves even more musics^^), ambiance,... - Gameplay : I just do love it. It's like developpers took every good tools from other RTS to make a new optimized one. Gameplay is fluent, efficient, immersive and well balanced. - Campaign : really cool and clever story, well concieved characters (at last strong and not sexualized women characters, thank you God of Gaming!!! ), great challenges. And what a fascinating universe <3 - Skirmish (vs AI) : really cool. This is not a game with legions of soldiers, in Iron Harvest every unit counts! Cons : - Graphic : huge FPS loss during most of the campaign missions (GTX 1080 !)! I hope there will be optimization fix! Why not adding a more immersive camera like Dawn of War 1 ? :) - Sound : some DEEP bass for far explosions would be more immersive :) And I want more musiiiiiics :D - Gameplay : I only had 2 little bugs, including a funny mek shaking as hell^^. Factions have all different units, but I think it would be even funnier if these factions would be more different (for instance, in Company of Heroes, british faction was very defensive). - Campaign : as already said, beware the huge FPS loss. - Skirmish : I enjoyed several games against hard AI but it was somehow too easy for me, maybe the campaign made me good at skirmish games^^ NB : I still dit not try Multiplayer CONCLUSION : I do recommend this game, really. I understand the bitter taste left to some players because of the game sold as not complete (some maps and big changes come every week), but it makes sense to me considering the spirit of Iron harvest : a game concieved by passionate people (developpers and community) for passionate gamers, and we can still follow its growing and evolution through weeks. I am very confident in the evolution of this (already great) game, this is why I give it 5 well-deserved stars :)

The game overall in my experiance was a mixed bag. On one hand an interesting world and story to explore, on the other an annoyingly painful spamfest - but hey that comes with the RTS territory. The game got definetly better since the Beta testing, but there is still a lot of work to be done. (Mainly Mech pathfinding, cover and Mech keeping orientation when moving). Other than that, I'm super excited for the upcoming Big DLC. Really enjoying the Rusviet Revolution - a splendid blend between storytelling and good old RTS action. Definetly recommend. The game will get better with time like a good old bottle of wine.

Would be a decent game if it wasn't so broken. -Pathfinding is trash, unresponsive units at times. -Savegames do not work properly and you lose your progress. -Nice graphics, especially trees and mechanical objects like bots.

Spectacular fights! Beautiful story that attached to you from beginning to end! Graphics for me very beautiful, with realistic physics! If you also like a minimum RTS this you absolutely must play it! I don't understand why it's so little known