Battle Brothers

About

Battle Brothers tasks you with commanding a band of mercenaries in a harsh medieval realm. Between fights, you navigate a large world map to secure jobs, scavenge resources, and recruit fighters. Each decision impacts your crew's survival as you balance gear upgrades, skill development, and mission risks. When battles erupt, the game shifts to a grid-based combat system requiring precise positioning and resource management. Every character has distinct abilities and weaknesses, forcing you to adapt tactics mid-fight as health depletes and terrain shifts. The game earns praise for its punishing difficulty and deep progression systems. With over 10,000 reviews on Steam holding a 91% approval rating, players highlight the satisfaction of building a cohesive team through careful planning. Procedural world generation ensures no two playthroughs match, while the $4.99 price tag on Green Man Gaming makes it one of the most affordable tactical strategy options available. Its blend of long-term planning and split-second decisions has kept fans engaged for years.

Storyline

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. 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.