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Iron Harvest

After World War 1 farmers found a plethora of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, weapons, shrapnel and bullets while ploughing their fields. They called it the Iron Harvest. Iron Harvest is a real-time strategy…

81 1 September 2020

Iron Harvest is a real time strategy (rts) developed by KING Art, released 1 September 2020 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 30 hrs to finish.

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What Iron Harvest is

Iron Harvest is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by KING Art and released in 2020. It was published by Deep Silver. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Iron Harvest is a real-time strategy video game developed by King Art Games and published by Deep Silver. Players control mecha and infantry in a dieselpunk setting. The game was released for Windows on September 1, 2020; and for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on October 26, 2021.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 25 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Iron Harvest holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 75% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 30 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 55 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 or AMD equivalent, 8 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 960 or AMD equivalent, 4 GB VRAM. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 30GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Iron Harvest launched on 1 September 2020, within three weeks of Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades and Factorio. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades, Factorio.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Iron Harvest — frequently asked questions

When did Iron Harvest come out?
Iron Harvest was released on 1 September 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Iron Harvest?
At minimum, Iron Harvest needs Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 or AMD equivalent, 8 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 960 or AMD equivalent, 4 GB VRAM graphics, 30 GB available space of storage.
How long does it take to beat Iron Harvest?
The main story of Iron Harvest takes around 30 hrs, or 55 hrs for 100% completion.
How many GB is Iron Harvest?
The PC version needs about 30 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("30 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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