Iron Harvest similar games & best alternatives

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Iron Harvest

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2020

Should you play it?

A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+

What works

  • Unique dieselpunk alternate history setting
  • Engaging single-player campaigns with strong story
  • Tactical and strategic gameplay with mech units
  • Beautiful graphics and sound design
  • Co-op campaign support

Things to keep in mind

  • Multiplayer community is small and matchmaking problematic
  • Some pathfinding and ai issues
  • Slow unit movement and clunky controls
  • Limited base building and unit variety
  • Dlc pricing and monetization concerns

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Tempest Rising

  • Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2

  • Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance

  • Battle Realms: Zen Edition

  • Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak

  • Earth 2160

Less fantastical

Games that feels like Iron Harvest but with less imaginative fiction

  • Company of Heroes

  • Ancestors Legacy

  • Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront

  • Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

  • Men of War™

  • Company of Heroes - Legacy Edition

Less social

Games that feels like Iron Harvest but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Starship Troopers: Terran Command

  • Toy Soldiers

  • Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

  • Gears Tactics

  • Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

  • Earth 2150 Trilogy

Choose your own criteria ->

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Iron Harvest: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Status.

Last update: 03/08/2026