Games
Iron Village
- Build Your Village
- Build houses to give your villagers homes.
- Clear farm fields to grow a variety of crops, from basic staples to exotic magical ingredients.
- Open shops that turn raw resources into valuable goods.
- Construct warehouses to store your resources and goods.
- Trade Resources With the Railway
- Take the resources and goods your villagers make and turn them into gold!
- Trade for other resources that your villagers need.
- Invest your gold to expand your village.
- Refuel trains that stop by on their long journeys.
- Expand the Railway
- Keep the railway happy and pour in gold to improve it.
- Unlock new types of goods and resources.
- Create opportunities to grow into a prospering town!
In the News
20 Spectacular Indie Games To Slam On Your Wishlist – Kotaku
It might just be that I’m very old, but there’s something adorably nostalgic about the presentation of Iron Village. It’s a city-builder combined with a railway manager, but presented in 2D pixel graphics that reminds me of a particular childhood era of gaming.
Top Steam Games To Lookout for in October 2024 – Games Ardor
[Iron Village] offers a balance of resource management, trading, and strategic investment, challenging players to create a prosperous community centered around their railway.
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Diary #21 – 0.5.09 Release Notes
Not too much in this fortnight’s dev diary, since we’re leaving for a family trip to Ontario tomorrow, but I did manage to sneak in an update of the Alpha. Here’s what’s inside: Known Issues: Iron Village Prototype by Chappington
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Diary #20 – Storage & Alpha 1 Release Notes
The last big game mechanic being added is storage – basically, a mechanism to cap how many resources you can have at once. Every type of resource besides gold is now capped, so you can’t accumulate a massive surplus without building the infrastructure to actually hold it. “Infrastructure” is an overstatement in some cases though,…
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Diary #19 – Homelessness
After the 0.4.03 release, there were two main game mechanics yet to be added: homelessness and resource storage. Resource storage is currently in progress, but homelessness is now fully in place, so I figure I’ll talk about what it is in the context of Iron Village, and a bit about how it was implemented. Homelessness…