Your keep

The castle you raise, from four angles and with the interface both off and on — captured from the running game.

A fixed plot, and what you put on it

Your keep is a walled enclosure with a finite number of places to build. Every structure inside it is one you chose to raise and one that took real time to finish, and the shared build queue — the keep itself plus the producer plots that gate it — is what actually paces a player. Time is the binding axis by design; resources are not meant to be the wall.

Because it is a real 3D scene rather than a menu with a picture behind it, the keep can be looked around. The camera orbits, climbs and drops, and the weather is running while you do it.

A walled keep in Iron Realms seen in rain at dusk, with towers, houses and troops inside the walls — **Your keep, in the rain**The castle you actually build, inside its own walls — towers, houses, a training ground, and the weather coming down on all of it.

A close view inside the walls of a keep, showing individual buildings — **Inside the walls**Close enough to pick out individual buildings. Each one is a thing you chose to raise, and each one is on a timer.

A keep seen from a low angle at dusk, with red-roofed towers — **Turned to the wall**The same castle rotated. The camera orbits, so the keep is a place you look around rather than a picture you look at.

A keep seen from directly overhead, showing the full courtyard layout — **From directly above**Straight down. This is the view that shows what a keep really is — a fixed plot with a finite number of places to put things.

With everything switched on

The frames above are captured with the game's own photo mode, which hides the interface. This is the same castle without it: resource counters and their rates along the top, every building named and levelled, the season and its countdown, and the dock along the bottom that moves you between the keep, the map and the war.

It is worth showing honestly. A strategy game is its interface as much as its scenery, and a gallery that only ever shows the scenery is telling you half of what you would actually be looking at.

The Iron Realms game interface over a keep, showing resource counters, building labels and the bottom navigation dock — **The keep, with everything switched on**The same castle with the interface showing: resource counters along the top, every building named and levelled, and the dock along the bottom that moves you between the keep, the map, and the war.

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