Battle Brothers

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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 138 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 105 out of 138
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 138
  3. Negative: 17 out of 138

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  1. Nedocromil
    Sep 19, 2021
    0
    Отвратительно сбалансированная "тактическая" игра. Невменяемая логика половины вещей, связанных с боевой системой, абсолютный и беспощадный рандом и принуждение к сейвскаммингу. Тактики в этой игре нет и близко. Также после буквально пары часов бросается в глаза почти полное отсутствие прогрессии в игре. Прокачка быстро срезается, а после определённого момента в игре практически нечемОтвратительно сбалансированная "тактическая" игра. Невменяемая логика половины вещей, связанных с боевой системой, абсолютный и беспощадный рандом и принуждение к сейвскаммингу. Тактики в этой игре нет и близко. Также после буквально пары часов бросается в глаза почти полное отсутствие прогрессии в игре. Прокачка быстро срезается, а после определённого момента в игре практически нечем заняться, никакого развития кроме повышения сложности игра предложить не может. Сейчас выглядит как ранняя версия с кикстартера, хотя игре уже 4 года.… Expand
  2. Elvensong
    Aug 17, 2019
    3
    This game…. I spent hours studying, researching, trying to find the best builds, etc.

    It’s too punishing. You lose a valuable brother? Alt-F4. You painstakingly build up your party and then in one battle lose almost all? Well, good luck getting it back, since the difficulty scales with time (in-game day). And it’s frustrating to constantly get sub-par recruits. I don’t know why    This game…. I spent hours studying, researching, trying to find the best builds, etc.

    It’s too punishing. You lose a valuable brother? Alt-F4. You painstakingly build up your party and then in one battle lose almost all? Well, good luck getting it back, since the difficulty scales with time (in-game day). And it’s frustrating to constantly get sub-par recruits.

    I don’t know why people love this game. I love turn-based strategy games like these, but this game is just too difficult, too steep a learning curve, too much RNG. Too much time spent and not enough rewards. Not for the general public or for gamers, but again, for a select few.

    I do appreciate the developers making this game and the concept but it’s just too hard and frustrating to play. It is not for those who play games to relax, have fun, and to de-stress while also looking for a challenge.    … Expand
  3. Wulfenstien
    May 25, 2017
    4
    The only thing keeping me from giving this game a 9-10 is the schizophrenic power creep. The game is fairly balanced early on but the battles either become far to easy or insanely difficult. This is exacerbated greatly late game, where you either win without taking a scratch in an insultingly easy battle or all your mercs are cheezed to death by completely overpowered end game enemies.The only thing keeping me from giving this game a 9-10 is the schizophrenic power creep. The game is fairly balanced early on but the battles either become far to easy or insanely difficult. This is exacerbated greatly late game, where you either win without taking a scratch in an insultingly easy battle or all your mercs are cheezed to death by completely overpowered end game enemies.

    Compound that with the fact that the game is extremely stingy with giving the player resources to recoup from losses it either forces you to retire early or constantly redo saves which reduces the game to random number generator. I think the endgame stuff (132 days) is designed to kill a handful of your veteran's (In my current save I have to take on 15 undead legionaries with necrosavants, honor guard, and undead priests in a god damn swamp) and I get it your trying to make it gritty, but if you give the player no/very limited options to recoup than its an arbitrary middle finger and turns an otherwise fun game into an arbitrary frustrating waste of time. "Rocks fall everyone dies" in other words.

    TL:DR its gritty low fantasy XCOM set in medieval not Europe, with same intrinsic problems late game XCOM has.    … Expand
  4. djvampyre
    Apr 12, 2017
    3
    Pros: Good Music, Gameplay is fun (while it lasts), well written characters when you do get a dialogue which is rare sadly. (Just write some more text I mean... can't be that hard to write text events guys)

    Cons: Too short, Gets too easy very fast when you get metal armor, Events are poorly done and way too short, leaves you with a "meh" feeling overall which is a shame because it had    Pros: Good Music, Gameplay is fun (while it lasts), well written characters when you do get a dialogue which is rare sadly. (Just write some more text I mean... can't be that hard to write text events guys)

    Cons: Too short, Gets too easy very fast when you get metal armor, Events are poorly done and way too short, leaves you with a "meh" feeling overall which is a shame because it had potential. It has no endgame at all... none. So don't expect to get more than a week out of it.

    I'll just say the game started out strong then suddenly the difficulty fell off a cliff and everything got boring very fast. The worst was when the late game event started (orc invasion) I thought "oh man things are going to get crazy now". Nah still pretty boring. Then suddenly 30 game days later the war was suddenly over and some soldiers passing me on the road from a faction I was strongly allied with (and killed oh I dunno a hundred or so orcs for) called me a wuss and I was given the option to fight them or retire (LOL ok) so I chose to fight them and the friggin game won't even let you do that... Also a 30 day orc war!? Really only 30 days!? Laaaaaame! Why would you shoot your endgame in the foot like that? Even if I wanted to hit the "continue onward anyway" button they made this stupid level 11 cap for all the mercs. Why? There's no point in continuing the game anyway after the orc invasion because other events just don't happen and by that time you're overpowering everyone with heavy armor anyway. The game woon't even let you imagine that there's endgame content because there's no treasure hunts for unique weapons even worse the unique weapons you do find are the most boring underwhelming things I've ever seen... that's just laziness IMO. I'm sorry but this game is completely lacking in actual content after less than a week of gameplay.    … Expand
  5. riley794
    Jun 21, 2017
    0
    So much promise so little gameplay. Played almost 100 hrs and hoping for that breakthrough moment but I was met with only disappointment. Trust me your better off not playing this game. This is one of those games that fills you with hope and excitement for the first 5 to 10 hours before slamming the door in your face. It's almost like each campaign hits a paywall except you've alreadySo much promise so little gameplay. Played almost 100 hrs and hoping for that breakthrough moment but I was met with only disappointment. Trust me your better off not playing this game. This is one of those games that fills you with hope and excitement for the first 5 to 10 hours before slamming the door in your face. It's almost like each campaign hits a paywall except you've already paid full price so WTH. In other words the difficulty curve in the second half is unbalanced. Mods may be able to fix this game with fun to play scenarios but until then it is a total waste of time and money!… Expand
  6. seanb1979
    Mar 25, 2017
    2
    Miss nearly all of your attacks, never get enough loot to get decent upgrades. You don't get enough money from quests to pay for everything you need. I get having a challenge, but making it impossible is frustrating as hell.
  7. night4
    Mar 3, 2018
    4
    I just tried it and the weird arm-less people and muddy visuals literally made me vomit a little in the back of my throat. I'd love to review the other aspects of the game, but I'll never be able to get over how *ugly* it is.

    The final nail in the coffin is that there's no magic.
  8. Femor
    Sep 14, 2021
    0
    нет русского языка, не понимаю что в игре делать

Awards & Rankings

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#74 Best PC Game of 2017
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#76 Most Discussed PC Game of 2017

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Games.cz
    Aug 25, 2017
    80
    An addictive turn-based strategy lets you manage a group of mercenaries. Occasionally it is hard and demanding, but it is a nice and unusual game for the fans of the genre.
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  2. Game Debate
    Jun 12, 2017
    85
    Combat can often devolve into a straight-line slugfest at times, and at other times terrain can make avenues of approach somewhat unclear and adjacencies a little hard to pinpoint. But for the vast majority of the time, the feeling of leading a desperate crew of die-hard sellswords is captured better in Battle Brothers than in pretty much any other game I've played. A surprise hit.
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  3. GameOver.gr
    May 26, 2017
    85
    Αn unforgiving and difficult to master Turn-based strategy RPG set in a low fantasy universe, that rewards the persistent and patient player. A perpetual battle for survival and the constant need for adapting new gameplay tactics is only held back by the total randomness in many aspects of the game. This randomness is at the same time charming and repulsive.
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