Iron Harvest interview: A diesel punk vision of an alternate America

The world of 1920+ fascinates me. I’ve long been into alternative history, such as the works of Harry Turtledove. In 1920+, World War I came to a different end, one that wasn’t conclusive (and full of steampunk mechs, too). We’ve seen hints of this place in the board game Scythe and in the work of Polish artist Jakub Różalski.

1920+ comes to life, though, in Iron Harvest, a real-time strategy game from King Art Games. It’s a game about “the next war” after WWI, one that starts as the fragile peace between Polania, Rusviet, and Saxony collapses. It came out in 2020, and the studio and publisher Deep Silver released its first DLC in May: Operation Eagle, which brings America to the conflict.