Cold Iron is an adventure developed by Andrew Plotkin, released 1 October 2011 on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.
What Cold Iron is
Cold Iron is an adventure game developed by Andrew Plotkin and released in 2011. It is available on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on Inform.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Your good axe has gone missing. Reverd Pearson would say you're a careless lunkhead who'd lose his ear if it wasn't nailed on. You figure he's right, a man of the cloth, but that doesn't mean piskeys didn't steal the thing..."
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Cold Iron holds a critic score of 35 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 33 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Cold Iron launched on 1 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.
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