Iron Harvest

Avoid. Its not fun at all. Actually its UNFUN and just straight up frustrating. Its basically TEMU version of Company of Heroes but without anything that made the classic so good. There is so much wrong with it I could be here all day. So for brevity sake i will just try to keep it simple and point the biggest offenders: Game has very high lethality, zero balance and atrocious pathfinding. Mind you, when I say lethality, Im not saying its hard. Its just unbelievably clunky. Every combat is either couple of seconds of absolute carnage if you try to micro - ending to quickly, or if you decide to spam a lot of units its a total uncontrollable blobfest where everyone gets stuck everywhere. You spend more time repairing/reinforcing/buying units than actually fighting and positioning (if unit actually fallows orders). They tried so hard to imitate the dynamic combat of Company of Heroes but totally ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and failed to understand how it actually works. Also, weirdly, all the effects are kinda anemic. So you feel like your mechs are made of paper and shoot pellet guns. That's a subjective opinion tho. In the end i went from playing on hard, to medium, to then go for easy just to finish the story to just giving up completly after a badly designed mission. If you really into the setting, watch the couple of cinematics on youtube or something. Don’t waste your time. Edit: Its also completely unstable and crashes often, especially at the end of missions. Devs jumped ship to push the development of the next game. Be very careful with Dawn of War. Don’t let the hype and nostalgia blind you and wait for reviews. Those guys seem to take cool settings or old franchise and make game around it but without understanding how the original actually worked and what made it so good.

As much as I do like this game and I have enjoyed what I have managed to actually play, the game is fundamentally broken. The campaign will softlock the game and make you lose your progress when cutscenes are meant to play. There is no way to even get past this which makes progression [b]impossible[/b]. These issues have existed for years and they've not bothered to fix it. I am too far beyond the refund window at this point and I've only done 4 missions. I wish I read the reviews first.

The setting, the mechs, the sound design are all awesome. Unfortunately, feels janky, controls are a little frustrating, doesn't feel good to play.

the game actually started with a great concept and the artwork is quite impressive. yet, it can’t escape feeling like company of heroes with a little makeup. same gameplay, same units, same buildings, same missions. producing a steampunk machine instead of a sherman tank doesn’t feel different at all. fighting rusviet vanguards feels just like fighting german sturmtruppen; there’s no difference other than the uniforms. even cutscenes are not better than the first company of heroes game. I don't want to see characters speaking with their mouths shut in a 2020 game. in early 2000's, most games had cutscenes with full talking animations, with body language and lip synch and all. 20 years later they cannot open their mouths. but the worst part is anna. she’s the main character during the campaign, but she’s one of the most annoying game characters I’ve ever seen. honestly, I’d even take catalina from gta san andreas over her. her voice is bad, her tone is bad, her delivery is bad, and she acts like she lacks any common sense. she keeps screaming in this high-pitched, screeching voice during gameplay, I seriously can't stand it.

I had high hopes for this game, but it feels unbalanced along with the last update for the game was Sept. 2022 it feels abandoned and unfinished...

This game is honestly so bad it makes me angry. The main attraction of the game is the mechs, but the game constantly deprives you of the opportunity to play with mechs. The story campaign is FILLED with mission after mission after mission of NO MECHS! Why am I constantly being deprived of mechs? And then you start a world map campaign AND THERE ARE STILL NO MECHS! Why?! It makes me so mad. I've put like 20 hours into this game trying to find the parts where I actually get to play with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mech. Why do you do this, developers? Why? I don't understand. Is it a German thing? Is there a law in Deutschland against allowing players to have too much fun? 'Nein, you shall not play with the cool-looking war machines you thought you bought the game for. You will instead play with this girl and her pet bear'. I honestly think that less than 20% of my playtime has been spent with a decent army of mechs. It was really fun when I got the chance to though. That's why it makes me so angry. They're capable of making a fun game, but then they just go and ruin it by not allowing me to play with mechs in this mech game.

I played this after the DoW4 announcement. Wanted to check what it's about and maybe set my expectations for DoW4. Overall the DNA of Company of Heroes and Dawn of War is very apparent here, the team is obviously full of fans, the dedication and attention to detail is great. I love the attention to the campaign overall, it's well written and progresses very well. This is obviously a product of passion. The game is not perfect, could be overwhelming early on, some pathing issues where squads split, maybe some mechs are too clunky.. but overall none of this takes away from the experience. Very good game, and sets my expectations very highly for DoW4.

Super cool setting and enjoy gameplay and actually has a good story with interesting ideas. Seen alot of people complaining about the 1st mission it takes like 10mins to finish and its a tutorial mission it really isnt that bad. If you dont even finish the first mission and slap a negative review on the game, you're just being a whiny child. the game has 3 campaigns (without dlc) all of them have highs and lows.