Iron Grip: Warlord

This game is a very well done hybrid RTS FPS tower defense game. Really, modern games should study this game and make a modern version of it. A real hidden gem.

I have played perhaps too much of this game - now I play to relax. It seems to be quite unique - shame it was not more popular!

fun

playable on steam deck

I forgot when I precisely bought/received this game but it's great, it's a shame it got delisted...

fun game, but did not age well in the slightest, also dead

a truly wonderful game, the only bad things i can say about it are all just because the fact it's an old game, it really is showing it's age... BUT the good parts! - gameplay is very smooth, it feels very clean and whole from level start to finish, the seamless transition from FPS to RTS, it's always so awesome to see this kind of thing, executive assault 1 & 2 both tried this and were less well designed than this one in my opinion, despite being released afterwards - the mood feels tense, the frightening scenario of urban warfare is stronger here than it is in other games which try to show that kind of thing like R6, looking at the minimap, RTS view to see all the enemies and think up an attack plan, and then back into FPS mode to truly realize just how hard things are from the individual soldier's perspective, every time i make a plan in RTS and then try to act it out in FPS, makes me feel bad for all the units i control in other RTS games - the theme is consistent, the designs are all industrial and steampunk, graphics reflect that with rust & ramshackle welds all over, looking very grimey and grim which helps the tension in the previous section, and the music does make you feel like a hero defending your homeland - the strategy, when you can have fun just by using your brain to think of plans, that makes a good strategy game, and here, you have lots of options to work with, you need to think which weapon to unlock for yourself, and which upgrades to purchase, and which towers to put where, and whether to upgrade them or not, all while needing to remember both your personal upgrades and your towers pull from the same points, so that you need to choose between them, it's very VERY fun to force your mind to weigh options with the incredible pressure of the enemy's approach on your shoulders, while needing to be strategic with lots of weapons, one of my favorite things is the HMG needing you to set it up before firing, this could be on a wall or while you're crouched, but it makes you hold still to set up and mobilize, so you need to find a good spot and also make sure you know when to move i really hope another game like this gets made, but sadly with the current lootbox/battlepass/live-service hellscape of gaming in 2024, it's unlikely to happen... glad i got this before it got pulled from sale on steam