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Battle Brothers

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4.4/5

( 276 Reviews )

4.4

276 Reviews

English
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Battle Brothers
Description
Battle Brothers includes the FREE Lindwurm DLC: In Germanic mythology, a Lindwurm is a wingless bipedal dragon resembling a large snake. It's a large and fearsome creature, the adversary in many a legend, and home to the wild and uncivilized parts of the world of Battle Brothers. Challenge your mer...
Genre:
Strategy - Turn-based - Historical
Tags:
Indie, Fantasy, Strategy, 2D, Turn-Based, show 11 more... Tactical, Open World, Sandbox, Historical, Difficult, Medieval, Roguelite, Procedural Generation, Tactical RPG, CRPG, Perma Death
Critics reviews
70 %
Recommend
PC Gamer
84/100
RPG Fan
82%
Softpedia
8.5/10
User reviews

4.4/5

( 276 Reviews )

4.4

276 Reviews

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Product details
2017, Overhype Studios, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 /10, 1.2 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, OpenGL 3.3 compatible video card with 512 MB, 1500 MB, Make su...
DLCs
Battle Brothers - Support the Developers & Southern Banner, Battle Brothers - Beasts & Exploration,...
Time to beat
31.5 hMain
58.5 h Main + Sides
103 h Completionist
47.5 h All Styles

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Description
Battle Brothers includes the FREE Lindwurm DLC:

In Germanic mythology, a Lindwurm is a wingless bipedal dragon resembling a large snake. It's a large and fearsome creature, the adversary in many a legend, and home to the wild and uncivilized parts of the world of Battle Brothers. Challenge your mercenary company against a terrifying Lindwurm and claim its hoard of treasures as your own!

Features
- Adds a new opponent with unique mechanics and loot: the Lindwurm
- Adds a new set of Lindwurm-themed named armor, helmet and shield
- Adds a new usable item: Flask of Acid
- Adds a new Lindwurm-themed banner to choose for your mercenary company



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.



  • 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.




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 thrive to reflect the creativity, complexity and originality from the old days when game developers where passionate gamers, not corporate businessmen. While doing this we took a lot of inspiration from some of best games out there: The original X-Com, Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, Mount & Blade and Jagged Alliance.
Popular achievements
A Full Company
Have a company roster of 12 brothers
common  ·  53.98%
Back In Business
Have a total of 5,000 crowns
common  ·  46.22%
Bling Bling
Acquire a named item
common  ·  33.38%
Blood Money
Complete a contract for a settlement
common  ·  70.12%
Bloody Toll
Lose your first mercenary in battle
common  ·  72.42%
Broken Promises
Fail a contract
common  ·  52.27%
Early Retirement
Retire and have your company break apart
common  ·  35.85%
Field Hospital
Have 5 or more brothers with a temporary injury at the same time
common  ·  40.74%
Hip Shooter
Kill 2 enemies in one turn with a ranged weapon
common  ·  40.35%
Goodies
comic (16 pages) (English)
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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
31.5 hMain
58.5 h Main + Sides
103 h Completionist
47.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Strategy - Turn-based - Historical
Tags:
Indie, Fantasy, Strategy, 2D, Turn-Based, show 11 more... Tactical, Open World, Sandbox, Historical, Difficult, Medieval, Roguelite, Procedural Generation, Tactical RPG, CRPG, Perma Death
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
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Company:
Overhype Studios / Overhype Studios
Size:
1.2 GB
Links:
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Cloud saves
Overlay
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
DLCs
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Battle Brothers - Beasts & Exploration
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Battle Brothers - Supporter Edition Upgrade
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Battle Brothers - Blazing Deserts
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Battle Brothers - Support the Developers & Nordic Banner
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Critics reviews
76
Top Critic Average
70 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
PC Gamerby Ian Birnbaum
84/100
Don't let some clunky inventories scare you off from this excellent strategy RPG.
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RPG Fanby Bob Richardson
82%
This game demands your time, but grants rewards with a thrilling and earthy experience.
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Softpediaby Cosmin Vasile
8.5/10
Although the learning curve is quite steep, once you get the hang of it, Battle Brothers is actually a very enjoyable experience. I strongly recommend those looking for a challenging turn-based RPG to give Battle Brothers a try, not just for the complexity of building the perfect company of brothers, but also for its stunning soundtrack and art style.
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User reviews

Posted on: October 14, 2025

MCMOA

Verified owner

Games: 42 Reviews: 1

Best game in the last 20 years

I love this game. Can't get enough. I eagerly await whatever's next from these developers.

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Posted on: October 31, 2025

Caliban789

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Games: 6 Reviews: 1

Just one more battle ...

... and one more battle leads to one more playthrough, and one more playthrough leads to one more DLC and so it goes on. After hundreds of "turn based strategy games like XCOM" searches how is it that I only finally stumbled on this game in 2025. An excellent combat focused strategy game, challenging and with plenty of replayability. I've just finished my 7th playthrough, plus a few failures aside, and whilst I'm a little sad to retire and leave the last set of characters behind me it means it's time to buy a DLC, to add to the 2 free ones I already have, breathing new life into this beast. 134 hours logged so far, can it top the 1033 of XCOM2?

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Posted on: April 4, 2021

Warhammer3025

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Games: 392 Reviews: 5

Extreme difficulty + no tutorial

A game that is crushingly difficult even on the easiest settings, combined with no ingame tutorial (only a handful of extremely short youtube videos). I won't pretend to be even average at strategy games, but having my entire company killed by the lowest-level quests and enemy mobs, repeatedly and with no obvious way to tell what I may or may not be doing wrong, is a real quick way to get potentially interested players like me to stop playing.

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Posted on: November 11, 2024

MySignIsVital

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Games: 117 Reviews: 2

Great fun!

Fun even when you get slaughtered. Not one for replaying games, but I just can't stop with this one.

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Posted on: December 28, 2024

TheBretticus

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Games: 210 Reviews: 4

Awesome, brutal game

This is a detailed. turn based mercenary band simultor. The game has deep depth and a punishing difficulty level but is is balkanced and extremely fun.

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