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Wartales
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
Details
- Released
- April 11, 2023
- Developer
- Shiro Games
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Tactical · Adventure · Indie
- Publisher
- Shiro Unlimited
- Platforms
- PC · Switch · Xbox Series X|S
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Wartales Reviews
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Wartales is a new open-world RPG in which we control a group of people in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Developed by Shiro Games, Wartales' greatest strength lies in its fantastic battle mechanics and Camping system. In this review, we will look deeper into Wartales' aspects, including the economic system and its graphical elements.
Tabletop gamers and cRPGers alike, take note - with Wartales, Shiro Games has put together a blend of RPG and survival mechanics that will surely have you rolling for initiative. Light on story and deep on game mechanics, Wartales is a grand open-world adventure where you take a band of budding mercenaries and try to achieve a single goal - survive. I’ve spent the last few weeks exploring what Wartales has to offer, and I can tell you that meeting that goal isn’t as easy as it might seem.
Turn a bunch of generic mercenaries into your absolute best buds.
Managing a motley crew of mercenaries means lots of spoils to spend, so why not invest them into your very own tavern?
Wartales is a game that I very much want to like, and suspect I would, were I playing it on PC or presumably a more powerful console. I have plenty of positive things to say about it but at the end of the day, it just doesn’t run well on Switch. Wartales is a very interesting game, but between poor tutorialization and awful performance on Switch, it may be buried a bit too deep to be worth playing on this platform.
In the turn-based RPG Wartales, no one likes you. You are killers for hire, after all, with no loyalty to anyone but your team. But they need you. What the game needs, on the other hand, is a stability patch.Read More
This grungy medieval low fantasy tactical RPG isn’t just a sandbox, but a quick-sandbox, capable of sucking you right in with emergent stories and moments equally thrilling and silly. The trade off here is it can lack a bit of momentum, but if you stay curious, you’ll end up well rewarded by its layered and considered world and systems.