Battle Brothers
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…
Battle Brothers is an adventure developed by Overhype Studios, released 24 March 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $8.99 at Steam.
What Battle Brothers is
Battle Brothers is an adventure game developed by Overhype Studios and released in 2017. It was published by Ukiyo Publishing. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
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…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 101 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Battle Brothers holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 80, across 70 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i3-2100 (dual-core) / AMD® Phenom™ II X2 565 (dual-core), 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 5770 (1 GB) / Intel® HD Graphics 4000. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $8.99 at Steam, 70% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Battle Brothers launched on 24 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Battle Brothers yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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