Two years of successful Early Access ended with the full commercial launch of Oberhype Studios’ turn-based strategy RPG
After almost two years of development in Steam Early Access, strategy game Battle Brothers has fully launched today. It’s the first game by the Hamburg-based game developer Overhype Studios.
Battle Brothers is a demanding turn-based strategy RPG mix that captivates gamers with complex management options and huge variety in arranging a powerful mercenary squad. As of today, more than 1,700 user reviews with a 94 percent average speak testimony of the game’s popularity with the Steam crowd.
Battle Brothers sends players to an open medieval low-fantasy world in which they are tasked to lead a band of up to twenty mercenaries, each coming with individual skills and properties. With this company of ‘battle brothers’ they explore a dynamically generated worldmap.
By taking contracts, hunting for treasures and fighting numerous battles band members improve skills, gain experience points and new abilities. In the complex combat mode the strong AI opponents can only be overcome if players make good use of their mercenaries’ individual strengths and the particular terrain of the battle ground.
Battle Brothers was inspired by groundbreaking strategy classics such as XCOM: Ufo Defense, Jagged Alliance, Warhammer: Shadow Of The Horned Rat or Mount & Blade. An that influence can be seen throughout the trailer.
“By developing Battle Brothers we first of all have made a game we like to play ourselves. We want to connect with past times when game developers have been passionate gamers, not corporate businessmen”, says Overhype Studios co-founder and managing director Jan Taaks.
Check out Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/365360/
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