Iron Harvest Reviews
Company of Heroes gameplay with alternate reality of 1920+ settings - sounds good. But it is still not enough to keep strategy fans playing.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
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.
With the promise of more content and tweaks, Iron Harvest could become something to keep an eye on for the competitive players out there. For now, it’s a solid effort that packs more style than substance, resulting in a good time.
An enjoyable real-time strategy game held back by a lack of polish and content.
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.
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 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
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.
Iron Harvest had the potential to become a very good and original competition for Company of Heroes 2. The game paid the most for its poorly finished start, when nice graphics and original units didn't help it either. Now it is more suitable for players who prefer singleplayer or skirmishes against not very intelligent AI. However, I still recommend that you think carefully about whether this will suit you for the price of €50.
Review in Czech | Read full review
Though excellent conceptually and visually, Iron Harvest is a run-of-the-mill real-time tactics game with significant unrealized potential, lack of depth, and minimal innovation.
For advanced players, it may be more of the same with a different paint job, but as someone who has had less engagement with RTS titles as a whole, Iron Harvest has been a really solid introduction for me.
Iron Harvest is refreshing enough to feel different, familiar enough to easily get into, and probably the best RTS I’ve played in several years. It does a lot of things really well, is engagingly different, and I’m really looking forward to seeing where the developers take the game next.
Iron Harvest is a throwback to one of the last golden ages of the genre, often feeling as old fashioned and crusty as that association entails, but frequently reminding us of the essential appeal of extremely large robots chilling out in timelines where they shouldn’t be.
Iron Harvest is a decidedly old-school RTS with some modern trappings, with a bombastic main campaign with a surprisingly well written story.