Iron Ruler

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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…

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!!

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.

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.