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Stompy steam-powered strategy Iron Harvest is out nowStomp! Stomp! Stomp!
Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!
Shovel the coals, light the fires, and let’s get this walking affront to nature moving, lads. Dieselpunk army-smasherIron Harvestis out today - a whimsical alt-history RTS romp that revisits the various imperial death throes of pre-World War 1 Europe and imagines how they’d play out with a few dozen giant robots. The cockpit isn’t ours, but today’s launch means we can finally take command of developer King Art’s hulking iron mechs.
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Iron Harvest paints an alternate turn-of-the-century Europe - pastoral, imperial, and flooded with stonking great killer robots. Each side - the Republic, Tsardom and Empire respectively - has their own outfit of massive metal men to unleash, alongside crowds of squishier foot-soldiers with more conventional tools.
But more than just an aesthetic, Iron Harvest looks to be a proper solidstrategy game- one that harkens back to brilliant Relic ctrl-a ‘em ups likeCompany Of HeroesandDawn Of War. Army sizes are small but not tiny, duking it out over control points on tightly-paced maps while building up smoggy bases in the corners. Our Nate had a bash back in the Steam Summer Festival, calling it an"absolute belter of an RTS".
“It’s challenging, but not hectic: even basic infantry units can take a while to wipe each other out, and your building-sized industrial colossi can take a hell of a pounding before getting knocked down, in epic, minutes-long exchanges of artillery fire,” Nate reckoned. “Honestly, play this, if you’ve got any love for the genre or the art style. September can’t come soon enough.”
Well, September has indeed come. Iron Harvest is out now onSteam,GOGand theEpic Games Storefor £47/€50/$50.
Correction: The game has not yet hit the Epic Games Store. The publishersexplainthat “The year 2020 has been a challenge for all teams” working on the game, and “due to the unique situation the game is not yet ready to launch” there. So they’re offering full refunds on pre-orders.
