Iron Harvest

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6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 178 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 46 out of 178
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  1. akisyake
    Jan 4, 2021
    0
    日本人でこのゲームの対応を許す人はいないはずです。
    当初は日本語も実装すると発表しており、期待してKickstarterの支援をしていたのにいざ発売となるとリリース日に日本語対応を削除しました。
    公式サイトでは未だに日本語対応とうたっており、後日実装する予定だとの発言もあります。 ゲームがどうというより、信用に値しません。    日本人でこのゲームの対応を許す人はいないはずです。
    当初は日本語も実装すると発表しており、期待してKickstarterの支援をしていたのにいざ発売となるとリリース日に日本語対応を削除しました。
    公式サイトでは未だに日本語対応とうたっており、後日実装する予定だとの発言もあります。

    ゲームがどうというより、信用に値しません。
  2. norberci
    Sep 2, 2020
    4
    This is still beta - wait a couple of months, because this game needs truckload of polish. And wait for a big sale, right now it's prices like an AAA title - which it clearly isn't. Frame rate is underwhelming on my rig - with 5 units on screen it feels like Total War with hundreds. The quality of Polish voice over is amateurish. And I hate the fact I have to finish the campaign with oneThis is still beta - wait a couple of months, because this game needs truckload of polish. And wait for a big sale, right now it's prices like an AAA title - which it clearly isn't. Frame rate is underwhelming on my rig - with 5 units on screen it feels like Total War with hundreds. The quality of Polish voice over is amateurish. And I hate the fact I have to finish the campaign with one faction to play with another, terrible, terrible design choice.… Expand
  3. Mooteddy
    Sep 3, 2020
    0
    INCOMPLETE GAME!

    THEY SELL 1/2 THE GAME AND LIE TO YOU ON STORE PAGE.

    WAIT HALF A YEAR FOR FULL RELEASE.
  4. PrplHze
    Sep 3, 2020
    3
    Problem is the game is "Full Released" with missing features, Devs waited 30hrs to respond with Roadmap, with Subject to change.

    50$ for a EA game thats not going to be finished for least 2 months just to get the advertised features done. I rated a 3, for 1/3 game. Cause nothing is ever 10 thats just silly
  5. kn03ee
    Sep 2, 2020
    3
    As a Kickstarter baker and early alpha/beta tester, I cannot recommend this game to anyone at its current status. The graphic and art design of the game is great but beside campaign, the game lacks of descent strategies and system. Similar/identical infantry units for each faction, lacking unit/weapon upgrades, lack of base building elements(only 2 base structures, same on every faction asAs a Kickstarter baker and early alpha/beta tester, I cannot recommend this game to anyone at its current status. The graphic and art design of the game is great but beside campaign, the game lacks of descent strategies and system. Similar/identical infantry units for each faction, lacking unit/weapon upgrades, lack of base building elements(only 2 base structures, same on every faction as well), claims to be a slow pace RTS but its not, etc.

    More importantly, the dev “full” released the game with many key features missing/not implemented in the game yet. There are no new maps since the beta, no rank play or ladder, no coop campaign/missions, no AI improvements, no steam achievements and so on.

    This is extremely disappointing. Despite many players provide their suggestions and warnings to the dev before the full release, the dev barely changes or improves any aspects of the game. If the dev wants to keep improving or fixing the game overtime, they should brand the game as an early access title instead of publishing an unfinished game.

    As a baker, I’m really disappointed and would not recommend this game for now to anyone who is interested.    … Expand
  6. nd_
    Oct 15, 2020
    0
    Strategy that lost 90% of its steam audience in just one month! Slow, clunky gameplay, glitches, bad controls, old COH engine - unfortunately, beautiful arts often don't mean a great game.
  7. TheBiasedBear
    Jan 9, 2021
    0
    Boring and uninspired. For a game that supposedly took its inspiration from COH and is trying to woo that particular crowd, it learned nothing from it and is bereft of all the things that made COH popular. The comparison with the vaunted COH franchise is only skin deep, the aesthetics in terms of color palette seems similar and IH has a cover system as well but that's about it. No powersBoring and uninspired. For a game that supposedly took its inspiration from COH and is trying to woo that particular crowd, it learned nothing from it and is bereft of all the things that made COH popular. The comparison with the vaunted COH franchise is only skin deep, the aesthetics in terms of color palette seems similar and IH has a cover system as well but that's about it. No powers you can use on the map and far less unit variety - VERY LITTLE difference when it comes to infantry from the various factions. For example, the anti armor unit is the same for each faction. No difference in terms of range, damage, firing rate, etc. Even the weapon used is the exact same graphic model, only the soldier model is different. Speaking about the cover system, it is not as deep as COH's. COH is able to create dynamic cover on the fly from explosions(eg craters) and wreckage. IH cover is only limited to preset pieces or sandbags that you can build.

    Don't get me started on the skirmish AI. It is dumb as a brick even on the highest difficulty. It literally stops fighting early on if you so much as make an effort to play. Google and you can find a lot of such feedback from others. Even COH's easy AI makes a greater effort than IH's highest difficulty. The AI in the campaign is the same as well but it seems more adept because it can do shenanigans such as spawning large groups of enemies out of nowhere and ignore population capacity restrictions - ie highly scripted.

    For some weird reason, the devs decided that it would be okay to have "input delay". If you order a unit to move to a particular spot, it takes a few seconds to register it. Same goes for attacking as well.

    The multiplayer community is very small. Trying to find anything other than 1v1 will take a long time. For some reason, this game is server based only. That's to say, we can only play multiplayer through their servers, no peer to peer. I know they do not have a server in Australia or anywhere near my country because my ping is 300+ms. My mate lives in Perth and I Sydney but we both have to endure the same horrid latency that results in the worsening of the aforementioned input delay. I have seen some talk that they only have servers in Germany where the company is located

    I would have held off my review to see if it went anywhere but since the community manager thinks the game is in a good enough state for him to go on the game's reddit to beg for positive reviews on metacritic, I decided to oblige him, though not with a positive one. Those bunch of positive reviews in the same period as mine were also made in response to that particular begging thread. Mate, if your game is good, it will receive praise from many in due course without needing you to beg for them. Begging for one is just putting the cart before the horse, not forgetting that it is poor form as well to beg for praise.

    It may become good one day but today is not that day.    … Expand
  8. TheEqualiz3r
    Sep 9, 2020
    0
    This game is the perfect show what happens when the developers totally fail to understand and listen to there community. The community said that they want a game with a deep strategy, A lot of micro, and a lot of strategic options. Instead we got....... This.... Let me explain.

    Compared to the wildly praised Men of war Assault Squad games this game is a complete joke. It feels like we    This game is the perfect show what happens when the developers totally fail to understand and listen to there community. The community said that they want a game with a deep strategy, A lot of micro, and a lot of strategic options. Instead we got....... This.... Let me explain.

    Compared to the wildly praised Men of war Assault Squad games this game is a complete joke. It feels like we are back in 2015 with how the units seem to be stuck together in a "Blob". You can't split them up and god help you if you try any micro what so ever. This is CoH in a Steam punk setting where you send blobs of troops against each other and just hope that one of them get a better dice roll to defeat the other. (More on that later)

    Compare that to Men of War games where you could split up a squad of 8 soldiers into 8 separate soldiers (if you wanted) and move them around separately, But not in this no, Here we go with the old CoH gameplay where everyone is stuck in a "blob" together. Its sad to see in a game from 2020.

    Also this dice throw regarding dmg in this is a complete joke, Once again, Compare this to men of war where units actually die IF they get shot. That means that there is no longer two squads standing on each side of a waist high stone wall shooting eachother in the face for 1 minute before one of the squads loose 2 soldiers. Its a complete joke.

    What more, Compare to MEN OF WAR you can't micro what so ever, You can't pick up enemy weapons, you can't go up to "mech,s" and look at there inventory and maybe take the heavy MG off the mech and use it yourself or go up to a dead soldier, Grab his gun and some granades he havent used and throw them back at the enemy.

    Men of War is THE kind of Strategy game this game SHOULD have been. Sadly its not and this is just a broken mess ala CoH. This could have been a damn MOD for CoH if anything.

    Like in Men of War. You can go up to a destroyed tank, Grab the heavy MG from it and then use it yourself as a heavy MG from the wall you are hiding behind, But no not in this.. Here we are stuck in 2015 still.

    That the devs of this game don't understood the possibilities of this game and what they could do with it was just sad to witness. But hey. Some devs are just not good at what they are doing. These devs are those kind of ppl.    … Expand
  9. kiauniulizdas19
    Sep 3, 2020
    0
    It is pain to play it. Units are unresponsive, abilities have terrible delay times, it's no fun at all. It looks good though, but good graphics cannot beat terrible gameplay. I do not recommend it.
  10. Koshaker
    Sep 5, 2020
    0
    One more russophobian game. good job.
    that else i can say? an absolutely trivial game that doesn't represent anything. Perhaps stylish robots and that's it. There is nothing more to look at
  11. Qyon
    Sep 3, 2020
    1
    I feel like they released this game to take advantage of people been stuck at home because covid. Should of gorn into early access or just delayed the release also not worth 50 Euro. im sure they devs will continue to update and add more content they have some sort of roadmap, but also a good passinate dev team wouldnt release a half finished game and expect people to pay full price out ofI feel like they released this game to take advantage of people been stuck at home because covid. Should of gorn into early access or just delayed the release also not worth 50 Euro. im sure they devs will continue to update and add more content they have some sort of roadmap, but also a good passinate dev team wouldnt release a half finished game and expect people to pay full price out of hope. Save yourself the time and money and just go play COH sadly.… Expand
  12. dr_yev
    Jun 3, 2021
    0
    The game suffers from two issues: originality and performance.

    Gameplay-wise the only thing it succeeds in is making me want to reinstall COH2. IH offers no improvement to that formula and it also has less depth. The friendly AI is bad, the cover system does not always work and the mechs, while cool, do not offer much of a new mechanic. The number of units one can comfortably    The game suffers from two issues: originality and performance.

    Gameplay-wise the only thing it succeeds in is making me want to reinstall COH2. IH offers no improvement to that formula and it also has less depth. The friendly AI is bad, the cover system does not always work and the mechs, while cool, do not offer much of a new mechanic. The number of units one can comfortably control is similar to tactical games (your xcom, wasteland and the like) rather than an RTS, where you might control dozens of units. But, there is not enough control to justify a focus on so few units at a time, therefore, the experience is limited. Even the first COH offered better control and an experience that did not feel limited. Furthermore, UI suffers from quality of life issues that have been solved for at least a decade in the RTS world. For instance, why can't I shift click unit portraits to combine units? That's just silly.

    But, I suppose, if you are new to this type of RTS, it is not terrible, per se. I'd give it maybe a 7 based on originality and gameplay.

    Performance is another story. This game does not deserve to have such terrible performance. It's by no means ugly, but it does not look THAT much better than 10 year old games. I won't bore you with the details but my benchmark-level PC runs the game at around 50 FPS with not much going on; when explosions start, the game becomes unplayable; even clicking around menus results in noticeable performance dips. This is the first modern title to have this issue (one exception being RE Village but that has significant ray tracing and a documented memory leak). Folks with older graphics cards and CPUs are reporting almost exactly the same problem, with similar FPS, which suggests poor optimization rather than a hardware issue. Given that we're now in DLC territory, it seems that the game will never be properly optimized and that's a giant FU to customers.    … Expand
  13. kyleb2112
    Mar 14, 2021
    3
    I wanted to like it, but it's just so damn CLUNKY. Everything feels un-responsive. It's like you're constantly prodding all your units to do their job while they fight to just stand there. I gave up on trying to use grenades--they just don't ever happen for some reason. If you ever hit the RETREAT button, your entire army will run all the way across the map back to your base while youI wanted to like it, but it's just so damn CLUNKY. Everything feels un-responsive. It's like you're constantly prodding all your units to do their job while they fight to just stand there. I gave up on trying to use grenades--they just don't ever happen for some reason. If you ever hit the RETREAT button, your entire army will run all the way across the map back to your base while you have zero control over them. You're just a spectator for like5 full minutes. Who's idea was that? In a very early mission you have to protect a train, but it's got literally ONE hit point. I instant-failed that mission 8 times because single men got through and shot the train. It suggested I build bunkers, but the game won't let you do that if you're maxed out on the number of you infantry (for some reason). So I had to intentionally kill a bunch of my men to build the bunkers to pass that stage. This is when the game was still trying to teach me how to play it! That's when I realized this thing wasn't tested enough for me to spend time on.… Expand
  14. Matrix4333
    May 29, 2021
    0
    Feminist propaganda, it is now every game. I can't play a single game without feministic remarks. This **** is so annoying! There is a reason why gamers hate feminists... Don't put this **** into games, no one wants to play and see it every game and nothing else... Stop ruining games, games are for entertainment not for pushing political agenda...
  15. SRKNZ
    Oct 21, 2020
    0
    For me the biggest shortcoming in this game is its awkward, counter intuitive controls. I don't understand too why the opening campaigns are focused on foot soldiers? It really sucks the excitement out of the game.

    A nice idea but controls and pacing quickly ruined it for me. In my opinion this should really have been held back until more time was spent on ironing out these issues and    For me the biggest shortcoming in this game is its awkward, counter intuitive controls. I don't understand too why the opening campaigns are focused on foot soldiers? It really sucks the excitement out of the game.

    A nice idea but controls and pacing quickly ruined it for me. In my opinion this should really have been held back until more time was spent on ironing out these issues and taking additional feedback from BETA game players.    … Expand
  16. night4
    Sep 11, 2020
    3
    The English voice acting is absolutely HORRIBLE. The game is too bright with no option to reduce that. If there's snow, you can't see anything at all because it's just pure blinding white.

    But worst of all, the game has all these cool looking mechs... and you don't get to use them. You play as some girl.

    Oh also, the game released missing half the features it was supposed to have. Stay away.
  17. xixox2222
    May 2, 2021
    0
    такую игру поискать надо такое говно я ещё не видел самая худшая стратегия по моему управление топорное сюжет калл после 1 часа игры я нафиг весь звук вырубил меня задолбали эти возглосы я не хотела и т д вобщем моё сугубо личное мнение говно лучше купить в тылу врага 2 чем эту парашутакую игру поискать надо такое говно я ещё не видел самая худшая стратегия по моему управление топорное сюжет калл после 1 часа игры я нафиг весь звук вырубил меня задолбали эти возглосы я не хотела и т д вобщем моё сугубо личное мнение говно лучше купить в тылу врага 2 чем эту парашу
  18. AiredaleMan
    Sep 20, 2021
    0
    Such an interesting theme, beautiful art and graphics, yet dialog is written in such a dull and tedious manner that it's annoying to listen to. Where the plot is central to the game, when it's so badly executed I don't see much worth to this game.
  19. MetacriticIsBia
    Jun 1, 2021
    4
    What they blatantly stole from Company of Heroes, works. Everything else is well below sub par. Weapon ranges make no sense, units (yours and enemies) will run right into groups of opposing units, especially when retreating (which you will do alot), the enemy can compute mass multitasking orders far faster than you can so prepare to be constantly assaulted by units before you can even getWhat they blatantly stole from Company of Heroes, works. Everything else is well below sub par. Weapon ranges make no sense, units (yours and enemies) will run right into groups of opposing units, especially when retreating (which you will do alot), the enemy can compute mass multitasking orders far faster than you can so prepare to be constantly assaulted by units before you can even get a full base built...never mind actual units fielded, unit pathfinding is utterly abysmal (units will stand right next to enemies and "dance" in place instead of attacking. This entire game is terribly optimised. The second Train mission is neigh unbeatable because of terrible unit range (you have a MASSIVE train cannon but it has a 20ft range...so it's useless). Just avoid this game unless it's on extreme sale (14.99 or less)… Expand

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 53 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 53
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 53
  3. Negative: 0 out of 53
  1. Riot Pixels
    Apr 1, 2021
    59
    Iron Harvest is a typical KING Art production, intriguing and appealing at first, but having spent some time with it, you notice the shoddy workmanship and a heap of technical problems.
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  2. CD-Action
    Nov 16, 2020
    80
    It’s a solid, very pretty and well-balanced RTS in the vein of Company of Heroes and Dawn of War II. Its most important quality though is that it managed to retain the atmosphere and allure of the unique dieselpunk 1920+ universe it’s set in. [11/2020, p.74]
  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 21, 2020
    75
    As promising as Iron Harvest’s setting is, the story just can’t keep up, while gameplay is a straight copy/paste from Company of Heroes 2. [Issue#248, p.50]
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