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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 #47 – Vacación, Deadly Pollen, and Conventions

    It has been a properly insane three weeks since the last dev diary. Somehow I have actually got a bit of work done on Iron Village (more on that in a bit), but I felt like sharing a least a little of what’s happened: The first two are fairly self-explanatory, I hope. On Tuesday and…

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  • Diary #46 – Mid-April Status Update

    Hey everyone, I just wanted to pop in with a little status report before I’m off on a family vacation for a bit over a week. As I’ve mentioned before, the first main update to Iron Village is to give it a “soft ending”, tying up the (light) story of why you are building this…

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  • Diary #45 – How Much Does an Iron Village Cost to Make?

    It turns out, $3681.54 USD. That is quite a bit of money! And it doesn’t even include my own labor! Although, it’s also a very low budget, depending on how you look at things. I’ll note that technically, none of these expenses are strictly mandatory. You can absolutely make a game for cheaper, if not…

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