Iron Harvest

KING Art · 2020 · $29.99 · Strategy · deal grade A

• Estimated net residual revenue: $6.9k to $10.4k per month
• Opportunity: $13.9k per month at x1.60 dormancy
• Estimated lifetime owners: 349.5k
• 73%% positive across 15947 reviews · 53.8 reviews/month

Why it's flagged

• Developer silent for 2.8 years
• Studio active elsewhere (7 titles tracked), so this one may welcome a partner
• Last build shipped 11 months ago
• Last discounted 0 months ago, 11 sales in the last 12 months
• Proven demand elasticity: x1.3 review velocity during past deep sales

Analyst notes (AI-assisted)

A 2020 real-time strategy game set in an alternate-history dieselpunk 1920s, with single-player campaign focus and lightweight multiplayer.

Iron Harvest has generated $2.25M lifetime on 349K units with steady residual revenue of $8.7K/mo, but languishes at 72% positive despite strong narrative and aesthetic appeal. The core issue is multiplayer infrastructure collapse and RTS design that underperforms versus Company of Heroes 2 and Starcraft 2. For a strategy-focused publisher, the single-player campaign architecture and IP ownership (King Art original) represent acquisition appeal if live-service ambitions are modest; for a revival partner, the path is campaign DLC or mod-tooling enablement, not competitive ladder resurrection. Most realistic play: acquisition.

• Risk: Online PvP community is acknowledged as dead or dormant; matchmaking queues and ladder play are not viable revenue drivers.
• Risk: Unit pathfinding, UI responsiveness, and balance tuning remain complaint flashpoints four years post-launch; refactoring would demand design iteration.
• Risk: The RTS genre is niche; elasticity of 1.31 suggests moderate price sensitivity, and last deep sale was ~10 days ago, signaling promotional fatigue.

This case as Markdown · Estimates carry ±30-50%% error per title.