Action Squad StudiosAug 24, 2023View on Steam ↗

Edge of War

Edge of War delivers an isometric, turn-based CRPG where the world reacts to you. All side quests are main quests, as every decision matters and impacts the fate of the Northlands. Explore and complete missions, but keep your heroes on their toes: the wilds do not forgive.

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Edge of War delivers an isometric CRPG experience where your choices carve a unique path through the Northlands inspired by laplands and Finnish Folklore. Engage in intricate grid-based combat, leveraging a deeply interactive environment to outmaneuver foes.

In this world, every quest holds weight and significance, directly influencing your journey and the others around you. With semi-procedural world creation and emergent storytelling, each playthrough offers a distinct narrative and plenty of variety.

Venture forth, but remember: mastering the environment is as crucial as mastering the blade.

Engage in Tough & Tactical Combat

Trials and tribulations await those who seek redemption in the Northlands. Assemble your squad and scout the wilds beyond Fort Turso. This tough turn-based CRPG will pit you against the dangers and the darkness that inhabit the North. Test your wit, wiles and will in a world inspired by Finnish Folklore and the Kalevala!

A New Story Every Playthrough

Procedurally-deployed hand-crafted quests along with reactive environments lead to a level emergent gameplay unlike any other, and ensures every playthrough is different. Your decisions affect the fate of the Northlands. Choose your squad, choose your skills, choose your allies.

Make friends or enemies of the locals. Delve in dungeons and discover ancient artefacts. Fight tooth, nail and claw against the mighty beast of the wilds. Commune with the spirits and abide by their ways when traversing their realms. Or tackle indomitable constructs and collect their weird technology.

Each element is taken into account and will shape not just your characters but the Northlands. The smallest decision can rally a faction to come to your aid, or seek your destruction. So be careful where you swing that blade, toss that fireball, or lay a kind word. How you live will determine how you die in Edge of War.

Explore Finnish Folklore

Your squad is tasked with exploring a region that has seen the corruption of a Compelled God, bears the scars of a warlord, and is marked by histories and peoples long forgotten. And yet, somehow people still eek out an existence amidst all these dangers. The Free Folk and the Barbarian Tribes call it home, as do the many spirits - all of them just waiting for a reason to kill you.

Vaeki infuses every stone, every tree, every stream. It gives rise to life, it is present in death, and it is a gift of the gods. Ukko reigns above, Tuoni below. Their brethren are scattered. Yet all ignore you and your prayers. Such is the way of the North.

Fort Turso is your home, your hub for adventures. From here you can journey to the borders of Pohjola or seek the river to Tuonela. Perhaps you will follow in the footsteps of Tapio or heap praise and prayers upon a shrine to Vetehain. Wherever you go Hiisi and other horrors are never far away.

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Recommended327h played51 found helpfulSep 2023

A big game update arrived April 2, 2024. A lot of new story content, NPCs, places to go, items, game mechanics. You command a four character party in a world which is inspired by Finnish ancient mythology. Two of the characters you create and two more volunteers join you, but you can make choices how to level up and equip all of them. Character editor is okay for a topdown 3D game: hair models, colors, body build, many sliders to edit the face. Combat is fun and it offers many tactical elements, like elevations of terrain, nature and walls can block attacks or your moving, you can knock down and push enemies, if you try use bows or magic when adjacent to enemy or try to disengage from melee they get a free attack against you, flanking enemies helps to hit them, you and enemies get different disabilities like poisoned, bleeding and crippled, thrown potions can set areas in fire, oil, poison gas or other elements/gasses/liquids. I've played some of the difficult combats many times, and tactical choices matter a big time. You are free to go where ever you want to. Quests you pick don't force nor limit where to go. In about 100 hours I haven't visited yet all the game maps, and that's what I'm doing: trying to see them all maps. No idea how many more maps are there, but from the large overall map I think I've seen over 50% of them. Of course there could be access to more large maps... At the moment the game is still lacking story content, NPCs and quests are only a few, but it is their next update. The graphics are really pretty at times. I've stopped to admire places a few times, waterfalls and streams especially at nights look wonderful, houses in villages have many details and look so authentic in style. There are different sort of terrains from swamps to forests, grassland, cliffs, roads, bridges and yards. And caves, which actually looked quite realistic considering the topdown view graphics. Downside about the graphics is, sometimes three tops hide your view to the party, and you may not see to the ground level without turning the camera. You can zoom up and down with mouse scroll, move the camera around the party to see the surroundings from other directions and move the camera around the map away from the party. There are two vision/detection ranges around your party, I don't know yet quite how that works, but in shorter range you can see colors, everything outside is just gray nature and buildings. A bit further than the colors range, you can also see enemies, but they are harder to detect. NPCs, things which are searchable (boxes, bushes etc) entrance markings into caves/buildings you can see only to the party's vision range. There is no crafting nor building of structures in the game. I asked if we would get building at some point, but it is not planned. Can't see why not: if I fell a tree, the fallen tree is still there when I return back later, and the previously expolred area is remembered, so the map changes are saved. Would seem a simple thing to me to build things. Optimization is still something they need to work on. I have a few year old computer, and many years old video card, but I don't have big issues playing the game. Sometimes AI thinks a while when making moves in the combat, and I need to wait for a few seconds. I haven't had any lag turning the camera or view angle, zooming up or down. I have hard drives, and entering from the large overall map to smaller maps takes a few second to load. EDIT, after the April 2024 content update. It was a big one! The most interesting new game mechanics where player's actions influence what will happen in the world. New thing called factions was introduced: they are groups that have their own goals in the game. The developers told that having each game run will be a different experience, we now have seen the beginning of it and in future content updates there will be more of it. Also I'm glad about addition of many new items and quality of items. Not just swords and pendants any more, now each item can have several different qualities: if you played Diablo games, you'll get the idea. The game never had lots of bugs, but crushing bugs was also done. I've always tried to find bugs and report them, but coming empty handed from bug hunting now. My experience is quite smooth sailing. With the newest game update notes, developers said that the next content update will see plenty of new weapons and armors again. The next update will add new tactical dimensions in to the combat, weapon types will be meaningfully different to use, as well as reasons to go heavy or lightly armored. And action points will see changes. Also come join the game's Discord channel. There's often beta testing new game versions you can join, make your suggestions and chat with us. It is a friendly community!

Edge of War

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Engage in Tough & Tactical Combat

A New Story Every Playthrough

Explore Finnish Folklore

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