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Battle Brothers

2017
GenresAdventure, Indie, Action, Open World, RPG, Top-Down Perspective, Strategy, Military and Warfare, Single Player
AvailableMar 24, 2017
PlatformNintendo Switch, Xbox One, PC, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4
DeveloperOverhype Studios
Overview

Battle Brothers is a turn based strategy RPG mix 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.

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Reviews

38 reviews found

100

GideonsGaming

Jul 28, 2021

Clever management mixed with highly tactical combat makes this band worth the price of admission. Just be aware the grim difficulty might make you sing the blues while you learn to accept its brotherly love.


92

Ragequit.gr

PC

Apr 12, 2017

Summary and quote unavailable.


90

Gaming on PC

Apr 24, 2017

Summary and quote unavailable.


90

Old Man Mordaith

Mar 30, 2017

Summary and quote unavailable.


85

NintendoWorldReport

Nintendo Switch

Mar 17, 2021

Battle Brothers has exhibited a clear vision in what it wants to be: a painfully grueling and dark world with a system of commerce that’s equally punishing. This is a system where crowns make the world go round and everything is replaceable, for a price. The breadth of dialogue, world-building paragraphs, and light agency in storytelling let you build the world according to what you hear. It’s a world I want to dive into again and again, even if I know this incarnation will be just as taxing.


85

GameCritics

PlayStation 4

Feb 8, 2022

After initially turning me away with an unhelpful tutorial and a stiff learning curve, Battle Brothers morphed into a worthwhile and gripping tactical experience, and conquering its barren, bloody landscapes stands firmly among my proudest gaming accomplishments so far. — Konstantin Koteski Disclosures: This game is developed by Overhype Studios and published by Ukiyo Publishing Ltd.


85

GameOver.gr

PC

May 26, 2017

Summary and quote unavailable.


85

Game Debate

PC

Jun 12, 2017

Combat can often devolve into a straight-line slugfest at times, and at other times terrain can make avenues of approach somewhat unclear and adjacencies a little hard to pinpoint. But for the vast majority of the time, the feeling of leading a desperate crew of die-hard sellswords is captured better in Battle Brothers than in pretty much any other game I've played. A surprise hit.


85

TechRaptor

Aug 3, 2017

Summary and quote unavailable.


85

Softpedia

Nintendo Switch

Mar 22, 2021

Summary and quote unavailable.

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