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Battle Brothers

One of the best tactical games ever.

I have it on Steam, played it 300h+. The good: Fantastic tactical combat system. Abilities of your bros and types of weapon provide different types of attacks and manoeuvre. It provides a lot of options. You can push, pull, attack in different patters, etc.. Good movement system, fatigue and initiative nicely combined. It adds up to great diversity with a relatively simple system. Variety of enemies. Different human types, unlike some suggested use the same rules as player. The "monsters" have their own set of rules and some act very differently. Fights with various enemies feel different, require different approaches. This is controversial. Setting is low magic sword and sorcery -like. Company is human and fights only for profit. Many fantastic creatures but magic is very rare. I enjoy it but some people might find it off putting. Game lacks main narrative but has small stories, funny or interesting encounters. Not a lot of writing but of good quality. Game has hardcore mode. It works well but you should not start with it. The player needs to know from which enemies to flee (is easy BEFORE engaging). Faster to learn with saves. The bad: Tactical combat part is amazing but everything else is worse. Not terrible but not great either. World is pretty generic except for the low magic - which is rarely done in games. World is mostly static, it waits for your company to show up. The contracts appear and disappear but no one else takes them. The big "crisis" happen 100% randomly. And so on... Levelling system is well balanced but a bit boring. Amount of builds is limited. Some enemies are dull and don't add much to the game Random terrain in battle gives good variety but combat is always outside. I'd love to see fights inside buildings, perhaps some dungeon crawling too. Tactical combat is among the best there is. This game is about tactical combat. I like it. Don't listen about the RNG, it's nothing special. Overall: 9/10, rounding up to 5/5.

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