Rule of Iron: Dark Age (AppID: 4010050)

Turn-based campaign

Secure your rule by building castles, recruiting units, expanding cities and waging war. Set your own goals: unify the world, dominate trade, or survive as a small, beleaguered kingdom surrounded by wolves. The campaign is a ruthless medieval sandbox. Every run lets you try a new strategy or story.

Real-time battles that feel like battles

For the first time, battles are decided not by raw unit stats but by how your troops move: formation tightness and depth, discipline, weight, strength and momentum. For example with everyone pushing, a formation ten ranks deep overwhelms one five ranks deep. This emerges from the in-house physics engine. Every soldier is simulated in real time, so tens of thousands of fighters collide, push, and break ranks just like they would on a real battlefield. Encirclements build pressure until bones crack. 1,500-pound warhorses hit like hammers. Battles are won by positioning and movement - not spreadsheets.

Mod support

Mod everything, from small tweaks to full overhauls.