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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.

  • Diary #15 – Minifantasy Mashup

    Slower than expected progress for the past two weeks (day job and mental health), but: For this dev diary, I wanted to talk about the art of the game, and how I use the Minifantasy art assets. As I’ve mentioned before, most of the art isn’t directly created by me. The main exception to that…

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  • Diary #14 – Settings & Smoke

    The last two weeks have been relatively light on game work. The main things have been:  The LLC stuff may be a future dev diary, since I haven’t finished yet, but I’ll discuss a bit about the other two.  Settings – I’m not entirely sure what to put here at the moment, apart from volume…

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  • Diary #13 – A Fortnight Later

    The fun thing about having three kids is the waves of various unknown diseases you collect. That, plus my day job ramping up, meant that a weekly dev diary was not really feasible. Moving forward, I think fortnightly updates are the way to go.  Anyway, the first main thing is that the new train UI is done,…

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