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Battle Brothers

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89% | Very Positive
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About Battle Brothers

About this game

Battle Brothers is a turn based tactical RPG which has you leading a mercenary company in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world. You decide where to go, whom to hire or to fight, what contracts to take and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign. Do you have what it takes to lead them through bloody battles and to victory?

The game consists of a strategic worldmap and a tactical combat layer. On the worldmap you can freely travel in order to take contracts that earn you good coin, find places worth looting, enemies worth pursuing or towns to resupply and hire men at. This is also where you manage, level up and equip your Battle Brothers. Once you engage a hostile party the game will switch to a tactical map where the actual fighting takes place as detailed turn based combat.

FEATURES

  • Manage a medieval mercenary company in a procedurally generated open world.

  • Fight complex turn-based tactical battles with historical equipment and brutal injuries.

  • Permadeath. All characters that die in combat will stay dead – unless they return as the undead.

  • All characters come with their own background stories and traits. Want a stuttering ratcatcher, a greedy witch hunter or a drunkard disowned noble?

  • Character development without a restrictive class-system. Each character gains experience through combat, can level up and acquire powerful perks.

  • Equipment that matters. Different weapons grant unique skills – split shields with axes, stun enemies with maces, form a spearwall with spears or crush armor with a warhammer.

  • Diverse enemy roster. All enemies have unique equipment, skills and AI behavior.

  • A dynamic event system with atmospheric encounters and tough decisions outside of combat.

  • Three late game crises – a war between noble houses, a greenskin invasion and an undead scourge – add a looming threat.

  • Two full hours of orchestral soundtrack.

  • 70 Steam Achievements and Steam Trading Cards.

Overhype Studios is an independent game developer studio from Hamburg, Germany. We are devoted to making great games that we want to play ourselves. With Battle Brothers we strive to reflect the creativity, complexity and originality from the old days when game developers were passionate gamers, not corporate businessmen. While doing this we took a lot of inspiration from some of the best games out there: The original X-Com, Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat and Jagged Alliance.

Game Details

Platform:
steam
Release Date:
March 24, 2017
Developer:
Overhype Studios
Publisher:
Hooded Horse
Supported Languages:
English
Genres:
Strategy
RPG

Sandbox

Action

Simulation

Adventure

Story Rich
Themes:
Medieval
War

Realistic

Historical

Horses

Fantasy

Atmospheric
Play Styles:
Open World
Character Customization

Moddable

Singleplayer

Third Person

First-Person
Features:
Singleplayer
Steam achievements

Steam trading cards

Steam cloud

Remote play on tablet

Family sharing

Product Requirements

Steam account is required for game activation and installation.

Windows Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS *: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
  • Processor: 1.2 Ghz
  • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatible video card with 512 MB
  • Storage: 1500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Make sure your video drivers are up-to-date!

Recommended:

  • OS *: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
  • Processor: 2+ Ghz
  • Memory: 2048 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatible video card with 1024 MB
  • Storage: 1500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Make sure your video drivers are up-to-date!

Critic Reviews

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer
84 / 100
"Don’t let some clunky inventories scare you off from this excellent strategy RPG."

Ragequit.gr

92 / 100
"Battle Brothers immersed me more than what you would expect from “just” a turn-based tactical RPG. I love its artistic approach, its mechanics to every last bit, and of course...

GameOver.gr

85 / 100
"Αn unforgiving and difficult to master Turn-based strategy RPG set in a low fantasy universe, that rewards the persistent and patient player. A perpetual battle for survival...
Reviews provided by MetaCritic

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Achievement Hunter?
62.5% of players played this game for >= 80 Hours!

Difficulty Statistics

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Easy
2.38%
Just Right
7.14%
Tough
66.67%
Unforgiving
23.81%
Don't Ragequit! 66.67%  of players consider this game to be Tough

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Play Behaviour

Tried It
10.87%
Played It
28.26%
Halfway
19.57%
Beat It
32.61%
Conquered It
8.7%
Completionist! 8.7%  of players have Conquered It
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Frequently Asked Questions

Available DLCs for Battle Brothers include Blazing Deserts, Warriors of the North, and Beasts & Exploration
Are you ready for a challenge? 90% of GameFAQs users said Battle Brothers is Tough or Unforgiving.
Yes, Battle Brothers is not fully Steam Deck Verified but the publisher says it is "Playable" on Steam Deck. Valve’s testing indicates that Battle Brothers is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
  • This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons

Steam account is required for game activation and installation.

Windows Requirements

Minimum:

  • OS *: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
  • Processor: 1.2 Ghz
  • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatible video card with 512 MB
  • Storage: 1500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Make sure your video drivers are up-to-date!

Recommended:

  • OS *: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
  • Processor: 2+ Ghz
  • Memory: 2048 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatible video card with 1024 MB
  • Storage: 1500 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Make sure your video drivers are up-to-date!
The average playtime for GameFAQs users is 71 hours. 63% of users played Battle Brothers for over 80 hours.
91% of critics on Metacritic recommend Battle Brothers. The Metascore is 80 out of 100.
Battle Brothers was released on March 24, 2017
Battle Brothers is published by Hooded Horse
Battle Brothers was developed by Overhype Studios
Fanatical users tagged Battle Brothers as Strategy, RPG, Sandbox, and Action
Fanatical users tagged Battle Brothers as Medieval, War, Realistic, and Historical
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Battle Brothers as having Character Customization
Yes. Fanatical users tagged Battle Brothers as having Singleplayer
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Battle Brothers as Strategy
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Battle Brothers as RPG
Yes, Fanatical users tagged Battle Brothers as Sandbox

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