Battle Brothers Reviews

Looked like crap at a first sight, but won me over. It's a simple game, as it must be since the campaigns are procedurally generated, but it has enough to offer to be entertaining and replayable. Hard at first, even in the lower difficulties, gets a bit better when you get a decent sized squad with some experience to go along. Every now and then, I come back, create a new Company and play for a while. Never gets old

This game should be called, "We hate you, and will try to end your run whenever possible." Its a punishing game. Tactics are not really a thing. Its almost entirely rng based but skewed on the computers side. Any other mode other then the easiest possible and tutorial modes will actively try to punish you. Take a caravan mission? suddenly 3-4 brigands parties will pop out. Looking for some ruins? Necro savants jump out the wood works and decimate your party. Find some ruins? Its filled with undead and a necromancer, which will simply raise the ones you kill even if you stand on them. One shot monsters, free actions points for enemies, insane prices for good gear. The enemy will almost always have the advantage on you. When it does not? It will get massive rng boosts so as to one shot at least one party member before it bows out. "Look Don Cheadle 69, im sure you are just bad, or over reacting." Touche dear reader, but let me ask you this. Do you like being punished for simply trying to play a game? If you go to the gym, do you want the equipment to hurt you? No probably not. I am sure there is some way to learn how to play the game. The tutorial will not really help you in that regards. Trial and error on a massive scale this game and youtube videos help somewhat. If you are looking to grind hours of your life away to get a decent party just to have your party wiped out by a game that is actively trying to end your run then this is the game for you. I will keep trying to play it, I will keep trying to win on any difficulty other then easy and tutorial mode. I am not going to hold my breath though.

The pro include the depth of systems at play: recruitment, trading, weapons & armor, character types. Lots of replayability and each playthrough can be satisfactorily long or short. The cons include some lack of polish to graphics, the steep learning curve (very worth it). all the writing in the game is excelllent.

Good game. Check out the Legends overhaul and make it even better.

Great game! Deceptively complex. It's taken me three runs and ~50-80 hours to really grasp the intricacies. Also, get all the DLC.

Fun Game! Challenging, with a learning curve to it. Not crazy though. On the surface seems simple, but takes some time to learn the depth. I am still getting the hang of it. If you like turn based games, with depth, then this is the game for you.

After 200+ hours, I still haven't even scratched the surface of all the different campaign styles available. I highly suggest Ironman mode, it provides an extremely intense hardcore experience. Every swing of a sword is saved on the spot, and many injuries are permanent. Your squads best archer catches a stray rock from a vagabond's sling and loses an eye after 40 hours deep in a campaign. Suck it up and deal with it instead of save scumming before the fight. This removes the temptation to load when RNG completely screws you over as well. Makes every swing and and projectile extremely intense in combat. 10/10 would recommend to anyone who enjoys a challenging experience with infinite replayability.

Game is kinda bad but very addictive, really could be hundred ways better with village management and variety and customization but did get me hooked with bare bones as it is.

It's fun, don't get me wrong. But my fucking god is it completely horseshit learning this game from scratch. You won't get access to anywhere near late game content in the first 40-50 hours of playing this game, and not because there's so much to do, but because your entire team will get wiped in one fight and brick your entire campaign. Seriously, any fight in this game where you lose any of your men is tantamount to a Pyrrhic victory. You'll spend ~600 crowns getting some shitty villager some weapons and armor so he isn't completely useless, only to complete a contract for ~300 crowns and get one of your men killed in the process. Boom, you're now DOWN 300 dollars for doing a contract. It only gets worse the further into a campaign you get. God forbid your team actually gets GOOD, then you get cocky and take on a challenge, only for them all to get massacred and you have to start over from the absolute beginning; because you had the AUDACITY to try and actually DO any of the content you aren't used to. I love the concept, the execution is shit. Play another game in the same genre.

This game is the equivalent of your abusive uncle that somehow always comes back to the family gathering. An average game looks like this: -Start a new company with a cool name, a dope banner, and even some backstory in mind -Go into the first town that has strangled trade routes, has been raided recently, and is somehow inhabited by exclusively anti-sellsword activists -Get your first contract -Get decapitated by a graverobber high on hyena acid 10/10 would visit the abusive uncle again.