Posted on: November 4, 2018
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Truly superb game
Played for some 200h on Steam. Great game. :)
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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 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.
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.
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
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53.98%
Back In Business
Have a total of 5,000 crowns
common
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46.22%
Bling Bling
Acquire a named item
common
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33.38%
Blood Money
Complete a contract for a settlement
common
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70.12%
Bloody Toll
Lose your first mercenary in battle
common
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72.42%
Broken Promises
Fail a contract
common
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52.27%
Early Retirement
Retire and have your company break apart
common
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35.85%
Field Hospital
Have 5 or more brothers with a temporary injury at the same time
common
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40.74%
Hip Shooter
Kill 2 enemies in one turn with a ranged weapon
common
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40.35%
Goodies
comic (16 pages) (English)
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Time to beat
31.5 hMain
58.5 h Main + Sides
103 h Completionist
47.5 h All Styles
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Critics reviews
PC Gamer
84/100
Don't let some clunky inventories scare you off from this excellent strategy RPG.
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82%
This game demands your time, but grants rewards with a thrilling and earthy experience.
Read full review »Softpedia
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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Posted on: April 5, 2020
fmorp68
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 12
It's not hard, it's random
Normally I like these kinds of games, but this one is too much for me. This is a game for masochists. The devellopers say, that it's a hard game - but that's not true. It is unfair, frustrating and random. Other buyers say, that it is a good tactical game - again it is not. Battlemaps are randomly generated each reload, so a battle in which you previoulsy had a good tactical position looks the opposite on a reloaded, after a lucky blow by a random brigand just killed your best front line fighter. Weather is random, too. All your planning, all your decisions don't matter, because most weapons can kill even the hardiest of your fighters in one round - and they will. I have played on easy, btw. Don't buy it. Try Low Magic Age instead. Worse graphics, but by far not so frustrating for casual players.
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Posted on: June 13, 2021
Aequusnox
Verified ownerGames: 144 Reviews: 26
Fantastic
It's absolutely fantastic, i freakin love it. I don't even know what to write to properly express myself but i'm addicted.
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Posted on: May 16, 2025
Veggi
Verified ownerGames: 35 Reviews: 1
Yes
very easy and not too hard for new players
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Posted on: December 14, 2020
Games: 0 Reviews: 2
Nice concept. Bad game
Tactical RPG. Good concept. Bad game. It's missing some basic features that were common in tactical RPGs for a couple decades. For example, no deployment phase in battles. A lot of encounters especially encounters added by DLC are incredibly unbalanced and have no counter other than getting lucky via RNG. Slow gameplay in battle. There is only one option in the settings to speed up the gameplay and it really doesn't help much especially given how many large battles there are. It just turns a lot of battle into a drag. That coupled with the existence of RNG means battles are way longer than they should be. Power creep in DLC. Recruitment is terrible because most of the time you get terrible recruits who will never be good which isn't too much of a problem in the first few days in game. But it's a terrible thing when you get into the later game because you can spend a lot of money on a piece of garbage just because you aren't given enough information in recruitment. At most you can pay 1/10th of a characters cost to find out they're a midget or they're fat. Something that shouldn't cost anything at all. Upkeep costs for mercs is really expensive when the jobs, even after negotiation, and loot don't really pay enough most of the time.
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