looking for another game like Battle Brothers.

[ximslammin]

I've already played and owned Warband, Bannerlord and Kenshi.

Are there any other games like Battle Brothers here on Steam? Where you control a small mercenary band?

Thanks.

[Lucid]

Anarchist Wolf の投稿を引用：

Many around here talk well about Urtuk: The Desolation , thou cant really tell by experience as i didnt buy it myself althou thought about it

I was almost going to get this game. Unfortunately not many youtube reviews. Is this game really as good you say? I just got battle brothers. Hope I enjoy it.

[Lucid]

I can personally vouch for both Darkest Dungeon (own all DLC) and Battletech I've seen in this thread. The music in Battletech is phenomenal.

Faster than Light is another game while not exactly turn based it's got a great game play.

While I didn't like Into the Breach, it's also another.

[Landshark]

Battletech is fantastic, it'll keep you coming back to play mission after mission.

Having put a few hours into Battle Brothers compared to putting many dozens of hours into mount and blade (and more recently, bannerlords), Battle Brothers feels like a 'lite' version of bannerlord.

In battle brothers you can't really interact with any of the roaming caravans or other roaming parties. You can only interact with specific contract related things or special places on the map.

That said, the game loop of battle brothers has me micromanaging my individual characters skills, equipment, formation way more than in bannerlord and it's quite fun spending time doing this.

I feel more like most of your party in bannerlord feels more like cannon fodder (aside from your companions), but in battle brothers you'll get attached to each individual character, they all have back stories and will continue to make their own story with the more battles they fight (i.e. hey my guy Grimwald chopped off the head of 3 enemies with a might swing, turning the tides in the battle that we should have lost!), that kind of thing. Based on their actions, they kind of morph into their own persona.

Not really sure why I'm writing a mini-review here. haha But yeah, I think bannerlord is the closest in gameplay that I've played so far with battle brothers.

[wedge]

Even though I didn't play Battle Brothers, I wouldn't compare it Darkest Dungeon because of the lack of some gameplay elements/mechanics, such as trading, diplomacy with other towns, etc. It's pretty bad as& game, I highly recommend it! Just don't expect the same level of freedom of BB or Mount and Blade.

I do have Warband but never got around to play it properly. Never got hooked by the game. Feels like I'm wondering like a headless chicken. That's one of the reasons I'll wait for a better sale price because I don't know if I'll enjoy the game for hundreds of hours or just half dozen trying to figure it out how to play it.

Should I give Warband another try before picking up BB? How would you compare these two games? Why BB and not M&B? What are the key differences?

Update: Landshark, as I was writing my reply, you read my mind. Thanks for you input!

[Landshark]

wedge の投稿を引用：

Even though I didn't play Battle Brothers, I wouldn't compare it Darkest Dungeon because of the lack of some gameplay elements/mechanics, such as trading, diplomacy with other towns, etc. It's pretty bad as& game, I highly recommend it! Just don't expect the same level of freedom of BB or Mount and Blade.

I do have Warband but never got around to play it properly. Never got hooked by the game. Feels like I'm wondering like a headless chicken. That's one of the reasons I'll wait for a better sale price because I don't know if I'll enjoy the game for hundreds of hours or just half dozen trying to figure it out how to play it.

Should I give Warband another try before picking up BB? How would you compare these two games? Why BB and not M&B? What are the key differences?

Update: Landshark, as I was writing my reply, you read my mind. Thanks for you input!

Hey, np. If you have any specific questions about the comparison just let me know.

[Heron]

wedge の投稿を引用：

Should I give Warband another try before picking up BB? How would you compare these two games? Why BB and not M&B? What are the key differences?

They're somewhat similar on the sandbox campaign level, but Warband has more in-depth mechanics there whereas Battle Brothers has superior writing. In Warband you can own land and manage vassals for example, in BB you're locked into playing a band of roaming mercenaries. Warband has a very grand scale there, BB is about micro managing a chosen few soldiers you'll get attached to.

Battles aren't even the same genre in these two games. Warband is real time action where you can command your troops from ego / 3rd person perspective and engage into directional melee / ranged combat yourself. Riding and cavalry are very well done for an action game. The combat system is really really good and sports a nice multiplayer, but noobs don't stand a chance there at this point.

BB has supremely excellent, difficult turn based combat with true RNG hitchances and permadeath. You won't have an avatar on the battlefield except with one DLC origin. It's easy to wipe and to lose bros, especially at the start of a campaign. Building your bros as they level and get better gear is an integral part of BB and it's excellent. Once you know what you're doing the system opens up and you'll discover that there is an incredible amount of viable builds, but it takes hundreds of hours to really get there. It's a super deep combat / level system.

In Warband it's impossible to die, you can only get captured. It's much more casual in that regard and you tend to play fewer / only one campaign. In BB most players retire once they wipe or have an imba team with no challenge left.

Plus Warband has a ridiculous amount of really good (total conversion) mods. BB falls off in this regard. There is one freaking big mod called "Legends", a couple of well done mods that add more content and many QoL / minor mods, but it can't compare to Warband's mod selection.

[No skill only Tiktok]

Wartales, but it is not out yet

[KoT]

I don't know why, but I realized that Sands of Salzaar is closest for me.

[Wulf[NL]]

+1 for Battletech. Though it is a completely different type of setting (sci-fi) it has the small-party-traveling-on-a-big-worldmap-taking-on-jobs-and-earning-money vibe going for it pretty well. Also turnbased combat.

[rubyismycat]

Viking expeditions or Kenshi its the most amazing game i have ever played

[WANG Chenhua]

( °□°) ♟ の投稿を引用：

Wartales, but it is not out yet

Yes, I actually just played the demo of Wartales and want to play more content in it.
But it’s not even released so I come here to find something similar.

Wartales is like a 3D version of Battle Brothers and take the economy management from Mount and Blade, which hits my favorite zone.

[wedge]

WarTales really caught my eye. Hopefully it will be as good as BB.

[Lucid]

Banner Saga Battletech etc.

[Vodka]

Wartales is same like BB. you have free demo in steam

[Red Bat]

It's probably a game most people saw and skipped out on, but Age of Fear is sort of similar if you turn the difficulty up. The low hit point totals make combat roughly as lethal as BB. Both games have persistent campaigns and random events. However the tone is very different. BB is a grimdark low fantasy setting that mostly takes itself seriously. Age of Fear verges close to being a parody of high fantasy settings with a very cliched story and goofy dialog.

The devs themselves recommended Mount and Blade on their FAQ as a similar game, so it's a fair bet. Although I'd stay away from Fire and Sword unless you really like the main game.

There's a few sci-fi games that are kind of similar. I saw someone recommend Battletech, and it kind of is in the same way Mordheim is. I think both games have more similarities to each other than BB though.

I think most people who like this game would probably like the X series for reasons I'm having trouble trying to articulate into a sensible explanation as to why as the games at first glance aren't even remotely similar, but have a similar enough gameplay loop that I could see overlap in the fanbases. The X series has you eventually running a trade empire in space with gameplay that turns from a standard ship combat game to a more RTS styled game, eventually feeling like a very weird 4X game mostly associated around trading. The game is similar in that you are trying to lead a sort of company in a universe that doesn't initially give a damn about you, with it being very easy to die, and you eventually scratch and claw your way to relative success. The general feel and grind is kind of similar. Both games can get kind of tedious and repetitive, with the X series being far far more so (even it's most devoted fans won't deny this, there will be lengthily periods of flying back and forth especially in the first game). I will warn the first game in the X series has not aged well, and the third game runs into hardware problems much later on as a result of the industry switching over to multi-core processors.

Ruinous の投稿を引用：

Raiders! Forsaken Earth, if said mercs were psychopathic madmax style raiders. Combat wise its not like Battle Bros though. I enjoyed it though.

I feel like I'm obligated to second this, if for no other reason than that the devs for some inconceivable reason have followed me on Twitter for over a year.