Iron Village

To celebrate a whole year of Iron Village being available to the public, the 1.3 update is releasing today! (March 24th, 2026) The biggest feature is tree planting: once you get the Full Agricultural Permit, you can start planting your own trees. I haven’t personally run into a situation where I’ve completely run out of trees, but if you want to replant some of your deforested regions, you now have the power to do so. They do take awhile to grow though, so be prepared to wait.The other big part of this update is a fix for the Android Demo. As I’ve mentioned before, there are 16 different builds I make per release of Iron Village. For minor updates, I don’t test every one of the 16 builds, but make sure I’ve checked every flavor: make sure it works on Android, MacOS, Linux (usually just by testing the Steam Deck), and Windows; make sure it works without Steam, and make sure the demo works. Unfortunately, something changed with the Android demo (either with Godot or the Android OS) that caused the Android demo to break, freezing indefinitely when starting a game. My prerelease QA pass never caught this, and apparently neither did Google Play, so the demo has been broken on Android si

In this dev diary I’ll be wrapping up my 2025 games played review. But first, a quick announcement – Iron Village 1.3 will be releasing on March 24th, the one year anniversary of 1.0’s release! It’s not a huge update, just some bug fixes and a small tree feature I’ll go into detail about next time, but it’s still something! Iron Village is currently on sale for 35% off, so if you don’t have it already go ahead and snag it now. Anyway, now for your scheduled programming:The Wandering Village The Wandering Village is a city builder with a twist: you’re building on top of a giant wandering creature called an Onbu. On top of handling the needs of your people, you also need to handle the needs of your Onbu, sometimes balancing between the two of them when their desires conflict (although usually it’s a symbiotic relationship). The Onbu also helps drive the overarching narrative, where you explore and try to figure out what’s behind the contaminating poisonous plants that make this world so dangerous and toxic.Apart from the mechanics, I found the art style really interesting as well. The villagers look like they’re from an animated movie or TV show, and the cutscenes really drive that h

Project OY development continues (I'll have another update on Patreon soon), and there's an Iron Village update in the works (!), but for now, we're going to continue with my 2025 games recap.Paradise KillerI barely know how to describe Paradise Killer. To put it dryly, you play "Lady Love Dies", summoned from exile to investigate the murder of the island's council. You go around and gather evidence to provide in trial at the end of the game.Describing it like that would do the game a huge injustice though. It's a completely surreal experience, from the setting (a regenerating island meant to eventually resurrect fallen deities, but gets corrupted by demons every time - except this time it was supposed to be perfect) to the characters (all with interesting stories and relationships... and possible motives). I don't know how else to explain it apart from it being a unique experience, in the true sense of the word "unique".Cities: Skylines IICities: Skylines II, there's so much to say about the cursed sequel to Cities: Skylines. I don't think you can truly tell its story without telling the full story of city builder games,

Surprise, it's another update for Iron Village! Iron Village got a big bump in sales recently, which initially looked like an end-of-sale spike, but turned out to be driven by this video by the Geek Cupboard:It's awesome to see Iron Village popping up still, but of course more players means more opportunities for bug reports! There were two bugs reported last week:On Android, the foundation for the Magick Transformer was missing, so the player couldn't build it.On the Steam Deck (but also PC), the controller would stop responding when going back to the menu, even though the menu was in focus.I'm still not 100% sure what happened for #1, especially since I couldn't reproduce it, but it did highlight the difficulty of debugging on someone else's Android device. Actually accessing saves isn't possible right now (each app's storage is kept secure from any other app accessing it, but that apparently includes the user too), and in order to get any logs you have to ask the user to install adb, plug their phone in, reproduce the bug, and copy/paste the relevant logs. (Hope the player understands what's relevant!) As you'll see below, the ch