Battle Chasers: Nightwar
Battle Chasers: Nightwar is an American made JPRG and dungeon-crawler, based on the best-selling Battle Chasers comic series by Joe Maduriera and inspired by JPRG greats such as Final Fantasy, Suikoden, Chrono…
Battle Chasers: Nightwar is an indie developed by Airship Syndicate, released 3 October 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android. The main story takes about 68 hrs to finish.
What Battle Chasers: Nightwar is
Battle Chasers: Nightwar is an indie game developed by Airship Syndicate and released in 2017. It was published by THQ Nordic. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Battle Chasers: Nightwar is a turn-based role-playing game based on Joe Madureira's fantasy comic series. It follows a band of heroes, including the young Gully searching for her missing father, the brooding swordsman Garrison, the gentle war golem Calibretto, the roguish Red Monika, and the wisecracking old mage Knolan. When their airship is shot down over a mysterious island, the group is stranded among the countless treasure-seekers and villains drawn there by a vast source of magical mana. To find a way home, the heroes must brave monster-filled dungeons and confront the sinister sorceress Destra and her schemes.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 48 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Battle Chasers: Nightwar holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 70 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 68 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM and Intel HD 4000 or equivalent with 1 GB VRAM. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 10GB. 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 launched against
Battle Chasers: Nightwar launched on 3 October 2017, within three weeks of Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Divinity: Original Sin 2. All of them reviewed better. 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: Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Divinity: Original Sin 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Battle Chasers: Nightwar yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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