Does the game offer any story?

[Zevedeos]

Does the game offer any story/campaign to go through? Important choices that changes the story?

To make the question more clear~ Is it sort of like Baldur's Gate 3? RPG? Story, lore, factions and choices heavy?
Or is it just sort of free exploration focusing on survival and with some mundane quests like "hire you to protect this caravan" you do so get some gold to maintain and upgrade your mercenary band and that's it?

[Psychopatton]

I didn't care for Baldur's Gate, but I don't feel this is anything like that. To me, it's basically the second half of your question. Fetch quests, and although it hasn't had the appeal to me of being an awesome game, I'm enjoying enough. You'll probably know within the 2 hour return window if it's your type of game or not. Hope this helped.

[LordPraxxus]

There's no over-arching story. There are a handful of zones/areas and each one has its own contained story, with many of them having a choice of siding with A or B. Each area has relevant side-quests, side-activities, unique loot, secrets, etc. The area stories take a back-seat to the gameplay. The only thing this game has in common with BG3 is the turn-based gameplay.

Wartales is more about creating and managing your own mercenary company. And I mean managing everything from- gear, resources, skills, money, food, morale, time, salaries, inventory, camp, etc. It's very immersive and in-depth, and extremely fun to play. You can run with 4 units, or 20, it's up to you, and you can customise the difficulty and other settings to suit yourself.

Just watch any gameplay video/walkthrough, and you should get an idea of the moment to moment gameplay. The base game is very worth the asking price, even more so on discount. You can easily squeeze out ~300 hours in a single playthrough. If you're planning on getting the DLC, the pirate one is good, others are not worth the price (haven't tried the new DLC). Either way, only get the DLC if it's discounted.

[ShadowFox]

Originally posted by Zevedeos:

Does the game offer any story/campaign to go through? Important choices that changes the story?

To make the question more clear~ Is it sort of like Baldur's Gate 3? RPG? Story, lore, factions and choices heavy?
Or is it just sort of free exploration focusing on survival and with some mundane quests like "hire you to protect this caravan" you do so get some gold to maintain and upgrade your mercenary band and that's it?

This is so much better than baldurs gate 3 imo. It's got a story but its very sandbox in that you can choose where to go and what to do and when to do it.

[Darmachakra]

It does not have a grand story, but a combination of small stories. You can't compare it to BG3 or Divinity Original Sin 1/2.

Wartales is about turn based combat embedded in a small but nice world. You manage a complete unique gang of mercenaries. My first time my gang was completely different skilled as my new gang. I choose the easiest management since I dont like too much micromanagement. On this level the experience is very rewarding: you still need to plan ahead about food and materials, but it's not bothering you too much. Money is not really stressing you, but it's scarce enough that it feels important. Each weapon or armor or helmet you find is special (for you), since they often have abilities that change the way of fighting drastically (for example a tank becomes a charger).

It has RPG elements that I find very rewarding, but it's not a real RPG with a grand story and important companions. The feeling is to manage a small group of friends where even going to the woods can be scary (in the beginning) and every victory is meaningful.