Aether & Iron

great game .Love thw witty lines and the story

甜品游戏，好评主要在背设，美术，以及全语音

This is a hidden gem that deserves to be significantly less hidden l. Fun aesthetics, smart writing, and extremely engaging characters. Seriously, protagonist Gia is the most iconic bisexual Italian video game lead since Mario. If that’s not enough to sell you, the vehicular combat is surprisingly deep and the voice actors crush it.

Writing this review after completing my first playthrough, and where to begin, just wow. I think this may be my game of the year for 2026. Almost a 30 hour long story for one playthrough, including doing as many of the side quests as I could find. Aether and Iron has an amazing and unique setting, with a story that I can just tell the writing team was very invested in. I loved every second exploring the world that the developers crafted for us, getting fully invested in the characters and the stories. As a fan of Death Roads: Tournament, I was very excited to find another turn-based car combat game, and the combat definitely delivers. There are many different ways to play, with the skills and characters provided, especially with the large array of weapons and different vehicles at our disposal. And every strategy I employed was viable, there wasn't any one way to play that stood above the rest, everything is balanced fairly, some of the encounters, while challenging, were never unfair. Of course, being an indie game, there were a few bugs and minor annoyances that occurred during my initial playthrough, but nothing that detracted from my overall enjoyment. With all of that being said, I wholeheartedly recommend Aether & Iron to any fans of story driven and strategy games. Also, this game has been announced to be receiving updates later this year, adding new content, to expand the story and the world even further, so this isn't just a game that the devs are releasing and forgetting about.

玩法一般般，剧情也是老一套的共济会阴谋论

有可取之处，但还是粗糙欠打磨。有点虎头蛇尾，但是喜欢女主人设所以好评了（真的不能加一段Romance剧情吗

玩着玩着碰到了疑似BUG的坏档，主线任务直接卡死，直接让我懒得再去体验后续剧情，游戏剧情玩法中规中矩，美术很不错，就是优化很垃圾，不玩了，卸载

Un gioco di ruolo narrativo (con tiri a 2d6) con elementi di avventura punta e clicca e di azione a turni. Ambientazione ben costruita e affascinante, il design generale tipo Steampunk mi è sempre piaciuto. Direi che mi sta dando un sacco di contenuto interessante e mi intratterrà ancora per un bel po', il mondo mi sembra abbastanza vasto. Ben disegnato, bella musica. Mi piace.

Fajna.

Aether & Iron follows a down on her luck smuggler just trying to make it in a world that things she'd be better off dead. After a job gone wrong our protagonist Gia finds here self caught up in a scheme only a shadowy cabal could run. In Aether & Iron you we be split between two mods point and click with dynamic conversations, and automobile based Turn based tactical combat. Lets start with the combat. Its fun and unique in a genre that so often will throw some characters on a map and have you move them to cover and blind fire when an enemy tries to move. Your party of three characters will be placed in different types of automobiles. From coupes to trucks the cars are the star of the show. Depending on the character and the vehicle will determine the play style of the battle. Depending on the vehicle class different types of equipment will be available to add to the car. The heavier the vehicle the more equipment you can add. However heavier vehicles have less Action points (AP). Meaning strategizing which characters and vehicles is essential. Map changes turn to turn. Since combat takes place as you speed down the highway some times broken down vehicles or lane divides may be ahead. The constantly changing highway means paying attention to wear your cars are at all times to avoid unnecessary damage or even instant death. Speaking of instant death, Gia being defeated in combat will result in a game over. Narratively it makes sense but from a gameplay perspective its disappointing. Just means that you spend combat babying Gia more than necessary to avoid having to restart the battle. Other than that though I've found combat to be fun and rewarding. The other half of the game is point and click adventure mixed with chatting up the locals to achieve your goals. Conversations move at a good pace and the voice acting for all the characters is really well done. Every ones voice seems to fit, even if Benny is annoying. During the conversation you have opportunities to make dice rolls. These will be boosted by your skills You've chosen and the party yo have tagging along. Another fun addition to the dice rolls is heat. Since your character is a smuggler stealth is preferred but some actions will actually benefit from having the authorities attention. Making for a fun balance depending on how your evolving Gia's skills. One think that should be noted is this game can be played in permadeath mode; however its more like minor inconvenience mode. As if you die and fail the save file that your currently playing on will be locked but the game saves so regularly and if you have multiple manual saves you can just jump back to one of those saves. This almost always results in you only loosing a few minutes of time getting back to were you were. Permadeath mode only works if you actually commit to it and physically restart the game yourself. Other wise Aether and Iron is a fantastic game with lots to do and a really fun cast of characters. The setting of Decopunk with anti grave tech is also a really fun spin on the 1920's aesthetic. If you enjoyed games like Disco Elysium, Esoteric Ebb, or Zero Parades for Dead Spys. Then this game is definitely right up your alley.