Indie Battle Brothers

[radiofloyd]

Battle Brothers is a turn-based strategy-rpg that spent a while in Early Access and was released on PC last year. I've been playing on the default easy difficulty, which is an enjoyable enough challenge that I don't feel like immediately starting over on Normal.

 

Essentially in the game there are the combat parts and the non-combat parts (a bit like Total War...the overworld map also reminds me of Total War, although the similarities probably end there). Combat is tile based, turn based, and plays fairly similarly to any number of srpgs, with different weapon types, abilities and other factors like height advantage etc.

 

 

Characters that die are permanently dead. Characters can also be injured, which depending on the injury will have various negative effects. You take (and deal) two types of damage, armour damage and health damage.

 

The overworld map, considerably zoomed out, looks like this:

 

 

Zoomed in a bit more it looks like this:

 

 

So essentially you hire mercenaries to fight. Mercenaries have food and gold requirements. Food can be bought at towns and gold can be obtained by completing quests or selling items. The game has a day night cycle and this affects a lot of things (i.e. your mercenaries wages are deducted once a day, injuries take so many days to heal, equipment takes a certain amount of time to be repaired etc). There are scenarios in the game that I assume have a story but I'm just playing a general campaign. Quests so far have been either of the combat or non-combat variety. Quest that involve battles are usually nearby the towns that give them, whereas quests that involve accompanying trade caravans can mean travelling long distances.

 

The game has a quite nice graphical style. The music is pretty forgettable and low key so it's one to listen to your cd collection while playing, which I don't mind. There's more to the game than I've mentioned, but that's the basic gist of it.

 

[radiofloyd]

Kind of regret buying this, it's just so dry, and missing the originality of something like Into the Breach. Might give it a couple more goes but for now I'm moving on.

[radiofloyd]

Meant to post a few days ago but yeah, I actually played on for a couple more hours but this has to be one of the driest games I’ve ever played. It’s perfectly functional but not the least bit entertaining or interesting. It’s just a game of numbers and buying better equipment (but not in a fun way like Torchlight).

 

I regret buying it and I wouldn’t recommend it.