14 DAY TRIAL // Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, developer King Art Games and publisher Deep Silver announced at Gamescom that Iron Harvest is set to release on September 1, 2020, on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Iron Harvest is based on the Dieselpunk universe and set in an alternate reality of 1920, just after the end of the Great War. We're sure some of you heard about steampunk, but dieselpunk is a slightly different genre. The term dieselpunk was coined more than 18 years ago by game designer Lewis Pollak and is used to describe the time period or era from the interwar period until the 1950s.
Apart from the fact that it's a dieselpunk real-time strategy game, we also know that King Art Games has been working in close cooperation with global RTS-fans ever since the highly successful Kickstarter campaign.
The game starts at the dawn of the 20th century, shortly after the end of the Great War. While Europe is still recovering from the bloody battles of the World War, tradition clashes with scientific and technological progress.
Along with the launch date, Deep Silver also released a trailer that shows a little bit of Iron Harvest gameplay. At first glance, this looks like a rough around the edges version of Company of Heroes, but with diesel-based war machines.
Although the setting is pretty interesting, everything else looks like the opposite. We don't like to judge a game by its cover, so we'll just leave it at that and hope that the next Iron Harvest trailers that might be released in the future will show us a bigger and better chunk of the gameplay.
Thankfully, some interesting names are involved in the project, such as Jakub Rozalski (artist and storyteller), Adam Skorupa (composer of The Witcher Series), and James “HelpingHans” Whiteside (ESL Champion for Company of Heroes 2), so let's hope for the best.