Iron Harvest Reviews
There’s a lot to like about Iron Harvest. It looks lovely and the battles have an excellent sense of spectacle to them as the gigantic mechs unleash hell while infantry squads exchange fire. And while the gameplay isn’t as tactically deep as Company of Heroes or other RTS titles on the market it’s still a lot of fun, flaws and all. But those flaws can’t be ignored: dishonest marketing, uneven campaign difficulty, dull A.I., and very few maps. I think Iron Harvest has a mech load of potential, and in a year or two could be an excellent game. Here and now, it’s a decent RTS and worth playing if you aren’t looking for something deep and fancy some spectacle.
Despite its flaws, I enjoyed my time with Iron Harvest. Mostly with the campaign, but the more flexible gameplay style allowed with weapon switching made Skirmish/Multiplayer promising. Sadly, the game’s lack of content and poor faction variety hurts its longevity.
While Iron Harvest is a fun game, it still has some kinks to work out. For those on the fence, wait for a few patches before checking it out.
In its current form Iron Harvest 1920+ offers a solid RTS experience, which brings an incredible alternate universe to life. It doesn't break from the norm in terms of gameplay but it is the narrative and setting that sets the game apart from the rest.
Iron Harvest is an incredibly impressive RTS game that’ll have you planning and strategising your next move on the battlefield for hours on end. If you’re a fan of RTS games and are not put off by planning and a bit of micromanagement, there’s plenty to love in the 1920+ universe for fans of games like Command and Conquer and Age of Empires.
Unique dieselpunk setting, perfect strategic mechanics, powerful story and colossal potential made Iron Harvest one of the most significant genre entry in recent years.
Review in Russian | Read full review
An enjoyable real-time strategy game held back by a lack of polish and content.
Overall, Iron Harvest presents a fascinating alternate reality of which I’d like to see more.
Iron Harvest doesn't reinvent the wheel - it doesn't have to. Instead, the game is a celebration of the sub-genre's tried-and-true design. It is a student of the greats that came before it, taking and presenting that core gameplay experience in a way that is familiar, but also exceptionally engaging.
Iron Harvest isn’t perfect, but it is an engaging journey into a new world that’s fun to explore.
Iron Harvest is an incredibly solid RTS with a fantastic setting that will keep you enamored during the entire 20+ hour campaign. KING Art games have crafted a beautiful game with destruction backed by solid and balanced gameplay. It’s missing a few nuts and bolts to hold the rest of it together, but what’s here is sturdy to stand tall for now. I look forward to seeing the game expand and grow beyond its current state to fulfill its promises. For what you get, Iron Harvest is unique, rewarding, and full of depth; it’s absolutely worth playing.
What we’re presented with throughout the campaign and as a whole though is as they say, rough around the edges.
Iron Harvest had the challenge to do better than Company of Heroes without being an umpteenth copy of the game developed by Relic. Unfortunately, despite excellent art direction and fair good core gameplay, the game has far too many flaws to revolutionize its genre. And it is not its campaigns with ridiculus cutscenes that will come to plead in his favor. For mechs aficionados and players who are fed up of Company of Heroes 2.
Review in French | Read full review
The beauty of rural Europe is trampled by the boots of soldiers & the hulking masses of Mechs in this alternate post-WWI strategy. War never changes.
A long time ago, when RTS games reached their peak in popularity, this game wouldn’t receive this much attention. But now, Iron Harvest has a chance to become one of the best strategies in years despite copying ideas without providing anything new. Well, maybe the setting is original, but it hasn’t reached its potential either.
Review in Polish | Read full review
The act of performing combat and moving troops around, though – the core of the game – is weirdly uneven. Moving units is awkward, and the pathing issues the units have make what should be simple skirmishes often risky and sometimes infuriating.
Iron Harvest has a unique setting with some original ideas, and borrows heavily from another RTS series. But rather than improve on those elements, it oversimplifies them, and lacks the content to justify its full asking price.
If the RTS is dead, then Iron Harvest is some pretty slick necromancy. A classic single-player campaign with a strong story complements the absolute satisfaction of big, stompy mechs.
Unbelievable campaign coupled with competitive multiplayer make Iron Harvest an old world hit.
Come to Iron Harvest for the mechs, stay for the beautiful, wonderful destruction in this solid and approachable real-time strategy game.