While the Iron's Hot
Bontemps Games · 2023 · Adventure, Crafting, Wholesome, Puzzle, Relaxing
PC
Very Positive80% · 186
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About While the Iron's Hot
In the faraway land of Ellian, legendary artisans have gathered for ages to perfect their craft. Now it’s your turn to join them.
Step into the boots of a journeyman blacksmith on a quest to become a master in While the Iron’s Hot, a crafty adventure assembled with mystery, wit, and charm. Forge, smelt, and combine works of metal to grow your smithing skills and discover exquisite new items to create. Explore an island filled with resources, treasures, puzzles, and fellow artisans with their own motives and designs. Rebuild the ruins of Ellian’s long-abandoned blacksmiths’ village to restore its former glory and grow your own crafting capabilities—and ultimately become a true master smith.
Forge, smelt, assemble
Master every step of the smithing process. Smelt ore and metal into ingots, and shape them into useful parts. Grind each piece to perfection, then use your creativity, knowledge, and finely honed observation skills to assemble alloyed works of art.
Smith a solution
In a land of artisans, you can forge your own key to almost any challenge. Repair machinery to open up pathways. Overcome puzzling environmental conundrums. Win over the isle’s most hardened personalities with your crafty smithing wiles.
Unearth a whimsical adventure
The land of Ellian is a bright, even a little mystical, world populated by charismatic and quirky characters. Explore tunnels with puzzles and resources, and embark on a combat-free journey to reforge the links of a world where crafting connects everything.
Discover the island’s secrets
Ellian is a land of creativity cloaked in mystery. Craft the equipment you need to venture out to new regions. Meet villages full of adept alchemists or skilled shipwrights, but take care—not everyone trusts that you have the best interests of Ellian at heart.
Rebuild a legendary smiths’ village
Forge a new home in Stal, a former haven for blacksmiths, now in ruin following a mysterious disaster. Revitalize the village to upgrade your own capabilities, and prove to the artisans of Ellian you’re worthy of becoming a master blacksmith.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the game's cozy, chill atmosphere and engaging smithing mechanics with creative puzzle elements, finding it a solid way to pass time with decent story and an SNES-inspired overworld. However, the main criticism is the significant grinding and repetitiveness of minigames, with some feeling the gameplay lacks depth and polish, making the full price questionable despite being worth playing on sale or for completionists willing to invest time.
Overall a recommended title, but only on a big discount since I do not think it is worth it at full price. It may not be the best game ever, nor will it be too memorable over time, but it did what it set out to do fairly well. It is pretty grindy, yet it is sort of cozy and a pretty chill game to spend a few hours here and there while you complete quests, story and achievements. Runs great on Steam Deck and was able to get all, but 1 achievement which got bugged. As for the grinding, I ended up exploiting a bug to make it faster and still had to grind a bit.4 found this helpful
Its a very nice story and i enjoyed the gameplay
Been a fun little way to pass the time. Spoiler/Tips: You can stack/increase quantity of anything in each step of the smithing process as long as you have the various mats/stages of mats(even during assembly). You only do the puzzle once even if you have a stack of 10+ of something. Not too bad of a grind to progress. Also don't be afraid to reverse engineer/smelt things you find :) If the puzzles become that tedious even with stacks there is an upgrade you can get to deal with it. Fairly chill, simple and easy game for the most part. Definitely recommend. If I had to complain it would be crying over inventory space management but that's just me being facetious :3
Creatively and mechanically bankrupt; very grindy. Missing a layer of polish and bugfixes. All you do is complete procedurally generated fetch-questy requests which task you to do boring minigames over and over. The story is the same thing; grinding minigames, now with textboxes to click through, and the story never gives the player a reason to care about any of it. Boo.
What a find! This game offers such a cool gameplay to the point that I do not know where to begin. So first off, you're a blacksmith (duh). And your main goal in the game is to collect resources to create stuff.. you collect it by completing quests, purchasing it or gathering it in the wild. You move through an overworld map which reminds of SNES RPGs. Said map also comes with sidequests and secrets. Once you collected enough, multiple minigames stand between you and the final product. There's the anvil, a grindstone and a work table (The latter lets you combine elements). Over the course of the game, you can extend your base to make smithing easier. Oh and you also collect XP to unlock several gameplay enhancements. The only pet peeve I have with this game is the fact that it doesn't know stacks. If you wanna combine something made from 5 different items which all require different amounts, you'd better prepare to click. A LOT. That's especially frustrating in the endgame. Other than that, I can definitely recommend this game.
The game gets quite repetitive towards the middle and a bit grindy if you're looking to complete all achievements, but it's a fun game. You can complete the main story in about 12 hours.
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