Is Iron Pact free to play?

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When does Iron Pact release?

Iron Pact releases on September 30, 2026. Wishlist on Steam and join the official Discord (discord.gg/MUUxP2Uthg) for launch updates.

Does Iron Pact reset its world?

No. Iron Pact is a single persistent Earth shared by every player. There are no rounds, seasons or resets, and the war is never rolled back. Captured territory stays captured, and lost territory stays lost.

What are the system requirements?

Iron Pact runs in a modern web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari) with WebGL2 support. There is no install. A desktop or laptop with a discrete GPU is recommended for large battles.

What is the time commitment? Do you have to play 24 hours a day?

No. Iron Pact includes a visual automation editor where you set up production, supply and military responses, so your front line keeps running while you sleep. Players also rely on their alliances to cover the hours they are offline.

How does diplomacy work?

The server enforces seven diplomatic states: Allied, Non-aggression treaty, Ceasefire, Neutral, War, Grace and Tributary. Each state decides whether two parties can attack each other, capture territory from each other, or see each other.

Do you need to write code to use the automation system?

No. The automation editor is fully graphical. You drag triggers, conditions and actions onto a canvas and wire them together. There are no formulas, no scripting language and no text expressions to write.

Where are the servers and what is the latency?

Iron Pact runs on servers spread around the world, so one shared Earth can host players from every region at the same time. The latency target is under 150 ms for commands in supported regions.

One planet. Endless wars.

One shared Earth that never resets. Front lines keep moving after you log off. Form alliances, hold your supply lines, and live with every mile of ground you take or lose.

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Fast facts

Genre: Persistent real-time strategy MMO (browser-based)
World: Single shared Earth, no resets, no rounds, no seasons
Combat: Real-time, real-distance (km/h, no tiles or hexes)
Diplomacy: 7 server-enforced states: Allied, Non-aggression treaty, Ceasefire, Neutral, War, Grace, Tributary
Automation: Visual drag-and-drop node graph; no formulas, no code
Platforms: Web browser (Chrome / Firefox / Edge / Safari with WebGL2)
Release date: September 30, 2026, wishlist on Steam (App ID 3456700)

A war on every front

Warfare

Move armies in real time over real distances. Cut the enemy's supply, dig in on high ground and hit them where their reserves can't reach. You only get to fight each battle once.

Distance is measured in kilometres, not tiles. A column of armour 47 km away at 60 km/h arrives in 47 minutes, the same 47 minutes that pass on your own clock. There are no hexes, battle phases or dice rolls. Battles play out continuously on one persistent shared world, so the army you flanked at dawn is still there for your alliance to deal with at noon. Cut a supply line and the front line it fed stalls within minutes.

Alliances

Form alliances or betray them. Seven diplomatic states (Allied, Non-aggression treaty, Ceasefire, Neutral, War, Grace, Tributary) decide who can shoot at whom, and the server enforces every treaty.

Every relation between two parties is in exactly one of those seven states, and the server decides whether your artillery is allowed to fire. Allied, Non-aggression treaty and Tributary block attacks and territory capture. Ceasefire warns before it cancels an attack. Neutral allows attacks but blocks capture, and War allows both. Grace is a cooldown nobody can skip. Breaking a treaty affects your whole alliance.

Logistics

Armies run on supply lines. Cut them and the front line stalls. Build them well and you outlast everyone, including the alliance you trusted last week.

Production, refining, transport and forward depots all run on the same persistent globe, and nothing is tracked off-screen. Cut a single rail spur 200 km behind the line and the divisions it supplied run dry within the hour. Reroute around the cut with a graph you set up last week and the front line holds. Players who take their supply network as seriously as combat are the ones still holding territory a month later.

Persistence

The world keeps running after you log off, and players in other time zones keep fighting. The map you come back to is not the one you left.

There are no rounds, resets or seasonal wipes. The Earth in Iron Pact is one persistent world shared by every player in every region, and it runs on the same clock as the day outside your window. Ground you take at 23:00 still belongs to your alliance at 11:00 unless someone took it back while you slept. Captures and losses are permanent. The map at the end of the year is the result of every decision made during it, and nobody can roll it back, not even the developers.

Automate your war

Your graphs keep the war going while you're at work. You build them from drag-and-drop nodes, without formulas or code.

Visual node canvas

Drag triggers, conditions and actions onto a canvas to build strategies too big to keep in your head. You never write a line of code.

The editor is fully graphical. Every node is a labelled box with named input and output ports, every condition is a dropdown plus a typed value, and every choice comes from a fixed list. You never type a formula, learn a scripting language or write a text expression, and there is no hidden advanced mode. A new player can set up military responses, supply chains and production queues on day one and leave them running.

Reacts to the war

Your graphs respond to what happens in the game. Reserves move when the enemy crosses your border, refineries start up when stockpiles run low, and everyone in your alliance hears about a broken treaty within seconds.

Graphs run on events instead of polling. They react on the same tick a unit enters attack range, a supply line is cut or a diplomatic state changes from Non-aggression treaty to War. Nothing scans your nodes on a timer: the engine wakes only the graphs that listen for the event that just happened. A graph you wrote last week can keep watch while you're away.

Grows with research

Early on, you give every order by hand. As you research the tech tree you get more kinds of nodes (logistics, military, relays, comms) and can automate work that used to need a second monitor.

Automation nodes come from the science-pack research tree, like every other tiered capability. You start with a few nodes for basic production and movement. Higher tiers add conditional branching, relays that pass signals between alliance members, multi-stage supply scheduling and finer control over military responses. No node is sold for money. You research all of them in labs fed by your own supply lines.

Marketplace

Publish your graphs, or copy the ones your alliance already built. A strategy you write tonight can end up running wars you'll never see.

The marketplace is built on the graph editor. Players publish reusable graphs such as defensive automations for a border sector, automated science-pack pipelines, supply rerouting plans and escort behaviour. Other members of your alliance import them in one click, and the author's name stays on the copy. The best graph designers become known across the world, and the alliances that recruit them tend to outlast the ones that don't.

A globe that never resets

Distances and travel times are real, and nothing gets rolled back. The war you fight tonight is still there tomorrow.

Real distance, real time

Enemy armor 47 km away at 60 km/h reaches you in 47 minutes. There are no tiles or hexes: the map is the real world, and the clock is the one on your wrist.

The simulation runs in real geographic units. Positions are longitude and latitude, speed is in kilometres per hour, and the distance to contact is the actual great-circle distance between two armies. A unit at 60 km/h covers 60 km in 60 minutes, with no scaling factor, game hours or speed multiplier. Forward observers, recon flights and early strikes matter because the time between spotting an army and its arrival is real, and it is long enough to act on.

Hold by being there

Move armor into enemy territory and it becomes yours. Pull back and you lose it. You don't plant a flag or fill a siege bar; the ground belongs to whoever is standing on it.

You capture a sector by entering it. The server works out ownership from where units stand on the real land map; there is no adjacency graph, neighbour table or capture meter. If your unit stands inside a sector and you are at war with its current owner, the sector is yours. If you pull out and a rival moves in, it becomes theirs. The ocean has no sectors at all.

The war while you sleep

You log off at midnight and a rival in Asia logs on at dawn, so the map you come back to at noon has changed. Your alliance's Discord will fill you in.

Iron Pact is one persistent shared Earth, so every time zone is someone's prime time. You cover the hours you're away through your alliance, not by staying awake. A serious alliance spreads the watch: graphs on the front line, players behind it, officers in chat and diplomats already negotiating the next treaty. Your alliance and your automation graphs take over for the hours you can't be there.

Ground stays held

Ground you lose stays lost, and ground you take stays yours. There are no resets, no rounds and no second campaign, so the map keeps every change.

The game is built around persistence. There is no round timer, no end-of-match score screen and no global reset. Every capture, defeat, alliance and betrayal becomes part of the only Earth the game has. Territory you lose on day one is still lost on day three hundred unless you take it back, which is why every kilometre is worth fighting over.

How it works

01 · Deploy Choose a spot on the globe and place your HQ. Start building before someone else claims the same area.
02 · Expand Train armies, take ground and run supply lines where the enemy can't see them. Research the tech that lets your alliance do things nobody else can yet.
03 · Dominate Sign treaties, and break them when you have to. Hold every sector you can. The war doesn't stop when you log off.