Wartales (2023)
Wartales is a 2023 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Shiro Games and Shiro Unlimited.
A band of mercenaries rides out for coin, and the road offers little mercy. Wartales drops you into a wide medieval world without a chosen hero or grand prophecy, just a company to feed, pay, and keep alive between contracts. Explore open country, recruit fighters with their own quirks, collect bounties, and pick apart the tombs of a fallen empire. Battles play out in careful turn-based clashes where a bad plan gets people killed. Shiro Games builds a grounded, low-magic frontier where survival and reputation weigh as much as swordplay.
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What is Wartales about?
A band of mercenaries rides out for coin, and the road offers little mercy. Wartales drops you into a wide medieval world without a chosen hero or grand prophecy, just a company to feed, pay, and keep alive between contracts. Explore open country, recruit fighters with their own quirks, collect bounties, and pick apart the tombs of a fallen empire. Battles play out in careful turn-based clashes where a bad plan gets people killed. Shiro Games builds a grounded, low-magic frontier where survival and reputation weigh as much as swordplay.
When was Wartales released?
Wartales was released on 12 April 2023.
Who made Wartales?
Wartales was made by Shiro Games and Shiro Unlimited.
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The mercenary-company grind, no chosen one, just contracts and casualties, sits close to Game of Thrones and its sellsword outfits like the Golden Company. Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen carries the same worn-boots, soldier's-eye view of endless campaigning for readers who want grim fantasy war without heroics.
Warbands and mercenary companies just trying to survive the next contract
Wartales puts you in charge of a mercenary company with no chosen hero, just mouths to feed and contracts to fill. Vikings and Red Dead Redemption 2 both turn a rough warband into the main character, The Walking Dead tracks a group's survival contract by contract, and One Piece follows a scrappy crew chasing bounties and treasure across a dangerous map.
Grounded war stories that follow the soldiers, not just the throne
Wartales cares more about keeping a company fed and paid than about any prophecy. Game of Thrones spends as much time on soldiers and sellswords as it does on kings, Gardens of the Moon follows an army's rank and file through an entire fallen empire, Attack on Titan puts fresh recruits on a desperate, monster-plagued frontier, and Old Man's War turns ordinary people into soldiers almost overnight.
Action RPGs about hunting monsters and looting what is left of a dead empire
Wartales sends its company through the ruins of a fallen empire, picking apart tombs between paid contracts. The Witcher 3 turns monster hunting into a grim trade with its own code, Skyrim fills its ruins with the same buried danger and treasure, God of War has Kratos climbing through the wreckage of old gods, and The Last of Us treats every abandoned building like a tomb worth the risk.