Iron Harvest

Iron Harvest

Skip · Strategy · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 32, under the fair line, at $29.99.

Cost per hour▼
$1.50/hr
Reviews▼
73% of 16,038
Critics
75 players 2 lower
Genre rank
Top 44% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
20h
To 100%
42h 2.1x the story
Achievements
25

Price and sales

Sales
59 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$4.49 January 2024
Sale every
36d last September 2026
Lowest now $4.49 at GOGall-time low $2.39 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
55 now
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
46% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

80% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

59 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 44 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. On the same math Rusted Warfare - RTS ($4.99, scores 81) and Planetary Annihilation: TITANS ($29.99, scores 63) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Iron Harvest

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 1,174 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 20 hours. Doing everything runs 42, 2.1 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.50/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds10 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

This game is actually very well done, Im seriously impressed and sad i dint knew about it earlier. The theme armies will probably not attract all the people it deserves but wow.... Amazing game,nice flow and good graphic details for rts .... GREAT GAME!
Akira kaineRecommendedafter 9.3h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's a pretty good game but very hostile to new people to real time strategy games and unfortunately it can become very difficult at the start it's good there's auto battles but maybe there could be a tutorial for the game that doesn't have to only be for the campaign and i played the easy mode but still pretty hard maybe there could be something done about this but still i don't recommend it to new players of the...
climbmtRecommendedafter 1.1h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
The demo hunt of a deer required before starting a campaign which seems to have nothing to do with the content I was expecting to see in the game and the constant "near miss" fails of hitting the deer to move on along with no other optional methods to complete it makes this game a disappointing purchase. I play several other RTS and scenario games of this nature and the DEMOS as well as initial campaigns with their...
J-LAZRNot recommendedafter 3.4hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 or AMD equivalent, 4 GB VRAM, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Iron Harvest scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/826630/iron-harvest
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-2
Critics75
Players73
Metacritic critics · 16,038 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperKING Art
PublisherPrime Matter
GenreStrategy
Released2020
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements25