A deep, amazing game! Build up your Warband from a few men to a few hundred, pledge fealty to a king, storm cities & castles, or even build up your own kingdom by claiming the throne and capturing territory. Each kingdom has a number of unique lords, ladies, and sons/daughters-in-waiting which you can build a relationship with by performing missions and quests for, or even perform missions of subterfuge to tarnish a lord's reputation for your own benefit.

Battles are incredible. They're essentially a RTS/FPS/RPG hybrid where you have control over your troops and give movement and formation orders, but you also have control over your own character and take part in the combat in either 1st or 3rd person view.

You also build up your character's skills and abilities much like an RPG, and equip your character with armor & weapons either purchased or plundered from the battlefield. Unique NPCs are treated the same way.

An immersive and complex space combat / trading sim. A bit of a steep learning curve, but incredibly rewarding once you get the hang of things.

This game is pretty cool in it's vanilla form. However, for a truly mind-blowing experience you HAVE to try it with the Complete mod! It revamps many of the game mechanics so they actually work as intended, as well as boosts the graphics and fixes many game bugs that were never fixed.