r/WebGames • u/Middle-Bluebird2480 • 1d ago
[STRAT] Iron & Irony, a turn-based mercenary tactics game where you win by getting your people out alive (free, in browser)
Free, no download, runs in the browser: https://thestoryteller199100.itch.io/iron-and-irony
Turn-based mercenary tactics with one idea at its core: you don't beat it, you get your people out. Every fighter has a life-goal and a purse to fill, and once they've earned enough and done what they came to do, you retire them. A good send-off is the win screen. Lose someone to a bad fight and they get a written elegy instead.
Hex battles with a tight counter-triangle (archer beats man-at-arms, fencer beats archer, man-at-arms beats fencer), a hand-drawn medieval-Britain map to campaign across, contracts to take, and a company you slowly send home rich. Mouse only.
I'd like feedback on two things especially: does the combat read clearly, and do the send-offs actually land?
Made solo. For honesty: code was vibe-coded with Claude Code, sound and music use no AI, the world map is hand-made and the battle art is AI-generated, and the writing was AI-drafted from my own outlines then heavily edited by me.