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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Iron Village Dev Diary #4 – Feature Creep & Mental Well Being
So this entry is going to be a lot more personal, but still related to this project. This week has mainly been some work with the train station and trees, not really enough to write a whole diary entry about. One thing that stands out to me though, is I actually cut a planned mechanic. You may…
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Iron Village Dev Diary #3 – Trains!
Now for the dev diary on the most important thing, the thing that I’ve (over)hyped – trains! Trains are the lifeblood of your town, delivering the resources you need and giving you opportunities to trade what you make. On the other hand though, your village is a part of the railroad – it’s being settled…
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Iron Village Dev Diary #2 – Pops, a.k.a. Human Resources
So the biggest thing I’ve been working on during my off time this past week (and a chunk of last week) has been what I call “Pops”. Sims is probably trademarked? Cims is specific to Colossal Order games (Cities in Motion, a.k.a. CiM). So I went with Pops, short for population. It’s used in Paradox…