Ukiyo Publishing recently announced that the turn-based tactical RPG Battle Brothers will release on 13 January, 2022 for PS4, PS5, Xbone and SeXbox.

Developed by Overhype Studios, Battle Brothers boasts deep tactical gameplay and a “gritty low-fantasy world.”

Here’s the official breakdown of Battle Brothers from Ukiyo:

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. 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. Once you engage a hostile party the game will switch to a tactical map where the actual fighting takes place as detailed turn-based combat.

KEY FEATURES

• Manage a medieval mercenary company in a procedurally generated open world

• Fight complex turn-based tactical battles with historical equipment and brutal injuries

• Permadeath. All characters that die in combat will stay dead – unless they return as the undead

• All characters come with their own background stories and traits

• Character development without a restrictive class-system. Gain XP in battle to level up your characters and acquire powerful perks

• Different weapons grant unique skills: split shields with axes, stun enemies with maces, form a spearwall with spears or crush armor with a warhammer

• Diverse enemy roster. All enemies have unique equipment, skills and AI behavior.

• A dynamic event system with atmospheric encounters and tough decisions outside of combat.

• Three late game crises – a war between noble houses, a greenskin invasion and an undead scourge –, plus one included in the DLC ‘Blazing Deserts’, add a looming threat

• Two full hours of orchestral soundtrack

• Three DLCs that add even more depth to the game: origins for your company, new enemies, locations, cities, contracts…

Standard editions of Battle Brothers will run for $29.99/€27.99/£22.99, while collected editions including all of the game’s DLC packs will cost $60.99/€58.99/£50.99 (the DLC can also be purchased separately). There will also be a special 20% launch discount for a limited time.

If you can’t wait until January, Battle Brothers is already available on Steam PC and Nintendo Switch.

Thanks for reading!

Please consider following The Splintering on social media or bookmarking the site for more independent entertainment news, views, and commentary!

---

The Splintering’s TeesPublic store has items for all budgets, great and small! If you like what we do & want to help keep our site 100% free of paid ads, go here!