Battle Brothers

As a fan of turn-based tactical games, I'd been meaning to play [i]Battle Brothers[/i] for years. In 2026, I finally sat down for a 40-hour campaign -- though, strictly speaking, a run never really ends. I can certainly see why the game has such a dedicated following. However, despite its strengths, I can't wholeheartedly recommend it. Its shortcomings stand out even more when compared to similar games released in recent years that offer a more memorable and engaging experience. The first thing new players will notice is that [i]Battle Brothers[/i] relies heavily on procedural generation. This is both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. Every campaign features a different map layout, different towns, different mercenaries, and different contracts, ensuring that no two runs are exactly alike. Unfortunately, the randomness also makes every campaign feel remarkably similar. The names may change, but the settlements, encounters, and overall progression blur together. You may get different ingredients on your spoon, but it's still the same lukewarm soup. To the developers' credit, they've continued to expand the game over the years, introducing new origins, backgrounds, and mechanics. Yet the core gameplay loop has remained largely unchanged. My biggest issue is the game's sandbox structure. There is no overarching narrative, little worldbuilding beyond the immediate setting, no memorable handcrafted characters, and few meaningful decisions that shape either your company or the world around you. The four endgame crises sound exciting on paper, but in practice they feel more like temporary diversions than climactic events. Before long, you're back to grinding the same trade routes, taking the same types of contracts, and chasing better equipment. Combat is enjoyable, but I was surprised by how limited the tactical depth ultimately feels. While there are multiple ways to develop your mercenaries, most builds naturally fall into familiar roles: frontline tanks, two-handed damage dealers, or ranged specialists. Weapons largely dictate the abilities available to each character, leaving relatively little room for creative playstyles. As a result, combat is less about experimenting with abilities and more about positioning, target prioritization, and managing the odds. There is a noticeable learning curve, but the game becomes far less intimidating once you understand your company's limits and learn which fights to avoid. Most systems -- equipment, the economy, and weapon types -- are intuitive enough to learn through experience. The game's randomness, however, can also be unforgiving. Poor positioning will usually get your mercenaries killed, but sometimes a handful of unlucky dice rolls is all it takes for a battle to spiral out of control. In that sense, [i]Battle Brothers[/i] has a lot in common with [i]Darkest Dungeon[/i]. Ultimately, [i]Battle Brothers[/i] succeeds as an open-ended mercenary simulator, and players who enjoy creating their own stories within a sandbox will likely find hundreds of hours of replayability here. I personally prefer tactical RPGs with stronger worldbuilding, memorable characters, and handcrafted content. Despite its solid combat and impressive longevity, [i]Battle Brothers[/i] never quite became more than the sum of its procedural parts.

什么时候能有官方中文就更好了，玩太上瘾了 ，好玩，推荐

First of all, I fully understand that all game texts are hardcoded deep within the game’s codebase, which creates huge technical obstacles for multi-language localization. Even with such tough limitations, players from numerous regions have spent lots of spare time making fan-made translation patches on their own. I really hope your team could offer official support and cooperate with these volunteer translators, so we can get fully official localized language packs for the game eventually. Unofficial mods always carry compatibility risks after major updates, and official localisation would benefit all non-English players greatly. Secondly, Battle Brothers has been live for more than ten years at this point. Both the base game and all its DLCs still keep a relatively high original price tag. As a player from a non-English-speaking region, I’m stuck waiting for big discounts every time I want to own a legitimate copy, due to the lack of official local language and high full pricing. Regrettably, I had to rely on pirated versions for most of my playtime over the years just to experience the game comfortably without waiting for sales constantly. This game’s tactical design and worldbuilding are absolutely fantastic, which is why I’m writing this feedback hoping to see these two issues get addressed in future plans. 第一，我完全清楚游戏所有文本都硬编码在底层代码中，这给多语言本地化带来了极大的技术阻碍。即便条件如此困难，全球各地的玩家还是自发花费大量业余时间制作了民间汉化补丁。我十分希望官方能够提供支持，和这些志愿翻译者展开合作，推出正式的官方语言包。民间补丁每次大版本更新都会出现兼容故障，官方本地化会让所有非英语玩家受益良多。 第二，《战场兄弟》发售至今已经超过十年，本体与全部 DLC 的原价依旧偏高。作为一名非英语地区玩家，受无官方本地语言、全价定价偏高双重影响，我每次都只能等大幅折扣才购入正版。遗憾的是过去多年里，为了不用无休止等待打折、顺畅体验游戏，我大部分游玩时间都只能选择盗版。 这款游戏的战术设计与世界观塑造十分出色，正因如此我写下这条反馈，由衷希望官方未来可以考虑解决这两个问题。

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El juego es un 10/10, no lo juzgues por los gráficos, no obstante, tiene sus puntos que producen dolor anal. - Por mucho que sepas de estrategia, posicionamiento de tropas, armas y demás... tu culo de estratega va a ser violado incesantemente por diversas criaturas paranormales o monstruos, es decir, vas a perder MUCHAS VECES, es como un "Darkest Dungeon" pero para pros. - Si le intentas buscar la lógica, no la tiene, pero ese masoquismo es el que lo hace adictivo, a falta de pagarte una Dominatrix, tienes esto. LOS DLCs SON LA PO-LLA MENOS EL ÚLTIMO DE BLAZING DESERTS. Gracias.

Nr 1 game in its genre, so much to do. Every run is a great experience, and you create a love and hate relation with your battlebro's!

Terrible game. Essentially a slot machine with a "game" as the display. Pretty devoid of actual content and relies really heavily on RNG and gambling psychology (maybe THIS time the RNG gods will smile? Little mini RNG games and fake displays of things happening that have nothing to do with the underlying RNG - which by the way is heavily biased to make you lose) to make it feel like there is some variation, player impact and actual tactics when in reality all you are doing is pushing an RNG generator every turn and watching the reels pretend to spin.

Отличная игра для любителей жанра.+ есть офигенные моды, которые дают игре новую жизнь. Однозначно в топ!

One of the best games I've ever played and experienced. Over 2k hours and still coming back, theres so much I like about this game and can talk on an on about. Before reading my review, play the game for yourself first. Don't spoil yourself, let yourself get immersed. Battle Brothers is a very brutal and hard game, and it WILL have you put up curses and profainities at the RNG. But that's the game. Learn from mistakes, learn, adapt. Survive. Get paid. You're a merc, not a hero, not a villain. You're lookin' for your new sack of crown's. Graphics/Design: I love the graphics/style/design of the game. From the clothes, to the weapons and armour, shields. Everything looks so good, clean and yet grimy. Lived in. Organic. And real. The weapons look fantastic, when the weapons swing you can hear the subtle sound design differences from a short sword to an arming sword. The sound of different clubs/axes swingin'. To the ranged weapons. Weapons being deflected against shields, the impact of armour via the weapons. You can even zoom in and see the swing of the weapons via wind currents, such as an upward swing down of an axe over the model. Or the swing upward by a club to stun. The models look good for your pawn's on your chessboard. And when anything gets killed, their body layin' on the ground. Its such a simple thing, but looks so good. The sound of killing a person to beast to monsters, its fantastic and never getting tired to hear it. Sound design/Music: The music is great. I unironically love using the battle tracks in other games, it fits in many genres and sounds just fantastic. Not too long, not too short. Doesn't repeat tracks one after another in a longer fight, each faction you face has their own unique battle musics. If you face two different factions, the music will swap tracks. Atleast if I am rememberin' right.. Or maybe I'm just crazy. Sound design for everything is good. Sound of weapon swings, impact on armour and flesh, on person, man, beast or undead. Sounds good and can be so cathartic on a fight where things are tense. From footsteps climbing up a hill, an arrow or bolt deflected on your shield. Or your brother getting nailed in a head by a crossbow bolt and losing 60% hp on a 11% chance by an enemy. Sounds good- Makes your blood boil hahaha Gameplay: This game punishes you, no doubt on that. Step one brother outta line, the AI'll pounce on him and focus fire weak brothers. Injuried brothers. Not experienced/skill brothers. Focus fire their ranged on your weakest/lowest stat brothers. Theres no hold's bar in combat in Battle Brothers. You WILL loose brothers, as much of a kick it is when a brother dies. Its part of the game. Gotta accept lose and move on. Otherwise you're miserable and resetting fights after fights after fights to make it perfect. And that's no fun at all and not a good way to play Battle Brothers. You'll learn how combat goes, higher difficulty, harder problems and solutions. And man. Late game Battle Brothers with all the DLC is difficult. You'll utilize everything in the playbook. Having troubles with ranged enemies? Wait 'till nighttime when they have less range and less ranged skill. Trouble getting through shield walls? Break them with axes. DLCs introduce more tools to be used to help combat- Against you and you yourself can wield 'em. Nets, fire grenades- Guns. Potions. Changing your equipment against certain foes is very crucial in Battle Brothers. So having spare equipment to shift into is necessary- No one brother can do everything and fight every foe fairly. Combat: Bread and Butter, bathed in blood and broken bodies of brothers. Spears are necessary early on. Most recruits and brothers have 50-ish melee skill. With a spear, boosts to 70ish more or less. You're gonna be able to hit foes somewhat reliably and you need that to make it. Swords are excellent against most foes, but are very expensive. Not good against armoured foes. Axes are heavy and good against everyone. Hammers are great against tin cans, but not the best DPS on low-armoured/no armor foes. Maces/flails. Great. Maces are the best melee weapons, when you land a hit they do solid damage against HP, damage through armour and damage to armour. With the ability to stun *Most* enemies. Two handed weapons are double effective to most weapons, and leave you open to more attacks, so either babysit them behind a shielded brother or on the flanks of your formation. And give them your best armours to help keep them from being killed ASAP. Otherwise you'll possess a very expensive and stinking arrow/bolt carrier. Polearms are very good on melee brothers. But are expensive, heavy and you'll need to skill your brothers to use 'em. But you'll be surprised how effective polearms are. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cruddy review I know. I love the game. I could go on and on and on, but shared a short summary for someone looking at Battle Brothers and maybe interested. Don't feel compelled to play on Vet Vet with no starting funds, with a three skull difficulty campaign starter. Pick what you find interesting and try to have fun. Learn, fail. Loose some brothers and suffer through. Eventually you'll make it and find how fun the game can be. And next thing you know you're over 2k hours through it and watched alot of Battle Brother videos. Go out there, cut down some brigands. Get gutted by goblins, have your brothers rise up as undead. Rage quit and come back hours later jaded at your loss and crush whatever got in your way.