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To quote their Steam page: "Iron Harvest is a real-time strategy game set in the alternate reality of 1920+, just after the end of the Great War. The Game lets you control giant dieselpunk mechs."
Their cinematic trailer:
Here is some gameplay without commentary:
It has some balance issues in the campaign (I haven't tried multiplayer yet) where infantry essentially becomes obsolete the second you are able to produce mechs, and the army unit cap is WAY too low to manage what the AI can throw at you without just spamming mechs. Several of the mechs feel absolutely useless compared to their larger counterparts and become as useless as infantry unless you have no resources to produce the larger machines.
I've seen several people with many more hours than me in the reviews say that these complaints are void in multiplayer, and that it plays completely differently.
The AI has an extremely frustrating path-finding issue at the moment where if you try to send several large mechs to the same location they have a tendency to crash into each other and awkwardly shuffle until you manually move one away from the other. This is especially bad on maps that have chokepoints like bridges that you have to push across.
That all being said I'm absolutely loving the game and having a blast.
It has a surprisingly passable story for an RTS game, the high detail on the character models hold up fairly well even when they use them for the cutscenes.
There is an option that allows you to have your units speak in their native language which I immediately turned on, as having my walking bunker with flamethrower arms yelling in Russian as it burns people alive is fantastic, and the English VAs just seem cheesy.
The game currently has 3 playable factions Polania (Poland), Rusviet (Russian) and Soxony (German). I haven't dug deep enough to see if they plan to add more factions like British, French, American etc, though I imagine with their promised large drop of story content we'll likely get at least one more in the foreseeable future.
If you have even the slightest interest they have a playable demo on their Steam page so you can try before you buy.
Their cinematic trailer:
Here is some gameplay without commentary:
It has some balance issues in the campaign (I haven't tried multiplayer yet) where infantry essentially becomes obsolete the second you are able to produce mechs, and the army unit cap is WAY too low to manage what the AI can throw at you without just spamming mechs. Several of the mechs feel absolutely useless compared to their larger counterparts and become as useless as infantry unless you have no resources to produce the larger machines.
I've seen several people with many more hours than me in the reviews say that these complaints are void in multiplayer, and that it plays completely differently.
The AI has an extremely frustrating path-finding issue at the moment where if you try to send several large mechs to the same location they have a tendency to crash into each other and awkwardly shuffle until you manually move one away from the other. This is especially bad on maps that have chokepoints like bridges that you have to push across.
That all being said I'm absolutely loving the game and having a blast.
It has a surprisingly passable story for an RTS game, the high detail on the character models hold up fairly well even when they use them for the cutscenes.
There is an option that allows you to have your units speak in their native language which I immediately turned on, as having my walking bunker with flamethrower arms yelling in Russian as it burns people alive is fantastic, and the English VAs just seem cheesy.
The game currently has 3 playable factions Polania (Poland), Rusviet (Russian) and Soxony (German). I haven't dug deep enough to see if they plan to add more factions like British, French, American etc, though I imagine with their promised large drop of story content we'll likely get at least one more in the foreseeable future.
If you have even the slightest interest they have a playable demo on their Steam page so you can try before you buy.
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