Iron Ruler
OlderBytes · 2022 · Strategy, Board Game, Tabletop, Turn-Based Strategy, Top-Down
PC
Mostly Positive75% · 12
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About Iron Ruler
Iron Ruler provides that quick 20-60 minute strategy break you need while your food is cooking, or your code is compiling, or the paint is drying...
It also gives your mind a solid workout, combined with the fun and relaxation you can expect from turn-based gameplay.
- On screen board game experience.
- 20-60 minute games for a quick break or winding down after work, with friends, family or against one or more AI opponents.
- Configurable procedural map generator offers a variety of challenges and requires just seconds to start a game.
- 10 pre-built maps including North America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean...
- A map editor for completely customized maps.
- 4 seasons: Harvest, Development, Conquest and Logistics to inch your way to victory or plan a devastating blow for a quick finish.
- A unique ruleset based on the triangular number sequence. (1 unit = 1, 2 units = 3, 3 units =6...)
Kids, teens and young adults especially benefit from the experience. Battle royales and sims are great, but the older generations benefited from games that developped strategic thinking in ways that today's games no longer do. Conquering the world, a continent or a map of their own making a couple times a day during the brain's formative years might just work wonders over time!
The triangular number sequence results in more impactful decision-making than the typical pitting of stacks of units against each other.
It also gives your mind a solid workout, combined with the fun and relaxation you can expect from turn-based gameplay.
- On screen board game experience.
- 20-60 minute games for a quick break or winding down after work, with friends, family or against one or more AI opponents.
- Configurable procedural map generator offers a variety of challenges and requires just seconds to start a game.
- 10 pre-built maps including North America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean...
- A map editor for completely customized maps.
- 4 seasons: Harvest, Development, Conquest and Logistics to inch your way to victory or plan a devastating blow for a quick finish.
- A unique ruleset based on the triangular number sequence. (1 unit = 1, 2 units = 3, 3 units =6...)
Kids, teens and young adults especially benefit from the experience. Battle royales and sims are great, but the older generations benefited from games that developped strategic thinking in ways that today's games no longer do. Conquering the world, a continent or a map of their own making a couple times a day during the brain's formative years might just work wonders over time!
The triangular number sequence results in more impactful decision-making than the typical pitting of stacks of units against each other.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀9 found this helpful
3/10 A TBS where you conquer regions. Good: - free - the basic concept is interesting and reminds games like Risk and Diplomacy. You attack neighbor "countries" (regions), and there is a total attacker strength coming from units in regions, militia, influence capital city etc. And the defender's strength in a similar way - music is good - lots of maps including those resembling continents - a map editor - many options when starting a match: can pick regions belonging to each player, distribute resources on the map etc So-so: - bg images in the UI are passable. Not great but okay - there is a tutorial that's pretty lengthy and tries hard to explain the various game systems. There is even a tutorial for the map editor! (never seen that in any game yet). Though the tutorial could be shortened (just the wording). The bg of the tutorial panel should be more opaque because the text is a bit hard to read. Also, it's a bit annoying that the tutorial messages block the actual clicks in the game. Often the tutorial explains many things in a row and there is no chance to try that out. Still, overall the tutorial does an okay-ish job at explaining Bad: - the gfx of the tiles and units are r…5 found this helpful
Awesome! You got a gold star for remaking one of my favorite oldskool games of all time; LORDS OF CONQUEST!! THIS IS EVEN BETTER THAN THE OLDER VERSION FOR c64 DOS AND ATARI 8-bit!! WAY BETTER!!5 found this helpful
Absolutely awful UI programming. Sound settings reset between sessions. Game freezes on map generation. UI buttons will stop working randomly. After three attempts at getting the game to work I couldn't even get my first match to start. What an absolute dumpster fire of a game.3 found this helpful
Игра Iron Ruler — это глубокий и сложный исторический симулятор, где вы становитесь правителем государства в эпоху великих открытий и завоеваний. Геймплей предлагает богатые возможности по дипломатии, экономике и ведению войн. Детализированная карта и сложные механики управления понравятся фанатам жанра, несмотря на требовательность к ресурсам ПК. Отличная песочница для создания своей империи.
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