Iron Harvest

a lot of cons are kind of minor, but i cannot in good conscience start this with pros, as i normally would, as the game definitely needs much more work. from other reviews dont have a ton of optimism for this game to really come to par. some good pros though. Cons: -no tips or direction how to build base structures first time im able? -cover system is janky, especially with army size of troops. -graphics arent the strong suit for an RTS or iron harvest, so close in cut scenes dont make a ton of sense. -seems pretty mild for diversity of firepower in single factions, even with mechs, kind of the same general 3 units. -voice acting is not a strong suit. -menus like hitting esc are wicked laggy. -the post great war timeline is getting played out a bit too much. -not very complex. The worst drawback: -Online is a must, even in campaign (why? lol?) so thats kind of insane, also if for whatever reason your net is still up but game loses connection, better hope you save often, as if you even LOSE connection for WHATEVER reason in campaign, its full crash back to menu, cannot continue. you will lose a substantial amount of game progress by this. how this game is where it is with such a huge problem, i dont understand. Pros: -Nice concept of game for RTS with the steam punkish post great war mechs. -overall visuals are good -overall audio is good -both solo and multiplayer -not very complicated Conclusion: i highly suggest getting on sale or the extra discount code, full price while not completely unwarranted for what you get isnt exactly most bang for your buck. its a fun RTS game with some good concepts and can certainly be fun to play, but some aspects feel unfulfilled or generic. i am not up to date on the game and its promises or updates, but if the team can really fix some of the major issues, i can see this being well worth it. until then id suggest buy at your discretion.

One of the best strategy games I played in last few years!

I really wanted to like Iron Harvest, from the beautiful artwork drawn by Jakub Rozalski, to the steampunk mechs, this should had been an easy win. Sadly, it just didn't come together. Compared to Company of Heroes, the game it clearly tries to emulate, Iron Harvest falls short in many aspects. The mechs which are a substitute to tanks, feel clunky and unresponsive, as do most of the units in this game. It's like I'm battling their bad pathfinding more than I'm fighting the enemy. Despite there being 4 distinct campaigns, they all end up feeling samey and repetitive. It's nice that every mission has cutscenes, but the voice acting in them is subpar. Multiplayer is dead. "Eurojank" does not excuse the terrible performance still present years after release. My advice is to stick to Company of Heroes, Dawn of War, World in Conflict - much better experiences than this.

Very enjoyable and ambitious game with great attention to detail and aesthetics. have only played the campaign but might try out multiplayer games in the future. Not sure why some of the critics are so harsh but from my point o view its´s really time well spent from a non-mainstream studio. I would alwys buy it again.

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.