I got this game from Groupees bundle , didn't expect so much from this indie game.
After finishing one playthrough with normal difficulty , I wrote down my recommendation.
As the video, it's a low budget indie game as 6 dollars.
But it offers some kind of varieties from many kinds of units with different skill setup.
You can lead up to 8 units in your team, so it has some kind of replay value.
The pity thing is the rare items from one mission cannot keep for next ones.

The other reason I upvote is the Dev works very fast to fix/upgrade the game.

Pretty fun and surprisingly deep for the price. Also harder than it looks, even on easy difficulty. Suffers a little from unforgiving RNG which can sometimes feel unfair.

The game mechanics are pretty straightforward and turn based, there are two separate parts to the game, the strategic part where you collect resources which you spend on upgrades to your kingdom or recruiting and upgrading new units. Random events pop up which allow you to go questing or seach for resources or treasure items that you can equip to your soldiers, or you can focus on healing your units or researching new technology. Or you can choose to fight tactical battles against the enemies, which you have to fight before your kingdom gets overrun.

The tactical battles are played on a relatively small grid filled with terrain obstructions. Placement of units seems fairly random and there doesn't seem to be any way to set a formation for your units to stay in. You can get badly screwed by initial placement pretty easily especially if you're going with a team of glass cannons like rogues and mages. I've only played about an hour but so far I found these battles pretty tough. The enemies are equivalent if not superior to all the units available to you at the start, so you'll need to team up and at least plan to use 2 units of your own for every 1 enemy, and even then it can be a close thing if the RNG goes their way.

Anyway, it's a challenging but fun game with a surprising amount of depth, and it's cheap. Give it a shot!

I had the honor of being one of the testers for this game. Not because I'm any good at testing stuff, but because I genuinely enjoyed playing it.

Blades of the Righteous is a turn-based strategy with two main aspects - managing your fantasy kingdom and fighting battles with the vile spawns. As the wise ruler that you are you get to recruit an army, choose individual skills and equipment for each unit and participate in random events that occur on the map - gather resources, deal with merchants, necromancers and other wanderers. And then there are battles - these can get rather challenging as the game progresses and will require careful tactical approach and planning.

The main campaign of the game can be completed in 3-5 hours depending on the chosen difficulty level and your skill. One way to prolong the experience is to delve into side-missions - these are pretty straightforward and there is a repetitive element to them, but as the events of the game and spawning enemies are random, each mission plays out differently.

For me personally the game has a fair amount of replayability - after completing it twice I am still eager to start a new playthrough, try various team setups, develop units in a different way and maybe finally beat it on the hardest difficulty.

The video and audio of the game are simple, but pleasant to eyes and ears. The battle theme is quite cool, and the graphical models for units are awesome. My favorite are the peasants - they just look so well animated.

To sum it up - I have no hesitation recommending this game, especially if you enjoy games like Heroes of Might and Magic or X-Com and are down to play something similar, if a bit more simple in design.

Blades of the Righteous is an interesting strategy game that combines resource management with turn-based combat. It seems to be a labour of love, with lots of little details and an unusual map/quest system.

Sadly, i can't recommend it. Combat is clumsy. Your units are placed randomly at the start, unit order isn't shown and the game doesn't automatically skip a fase if you have no abilities available.

The game has a ton of options but gives too little guidance as to what 'works' so it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot. The resting element seems like a waste of time but is actually a vital element. It would probably have been better if units simply healed automatically after every battle.

While it is listed as a casual game, it's pretty hard even at Easy difficulty unless you know what you're doing. The city UI is a kinda clumsy with your character walking around in it. A single (non-scrolling) visual representation would've sufficed.

First, please see my hours played and, if you like, achievements for this game. Unlike most reviewers, I have actually played it long enough to figure it out.

This is a small, relatively simple (but still surprisingly deep) turn-based hex-grid strategy game with somewhat generic characters, simple graphics, and simple animations. It'll likely run on half of a potato. It's also $3 USD.

It's not hard, but it's not too easy, and you definitely need to invest the time to learn the game's quirks before you're going to "get it," as evidenced by many of the other reviews.

It has some bugs. The Grim Reaper will crash the game, as will hovering over skills for angels. As long as you leave those two units out of the mix, which is easily done, the game is completely stable. Considering this under $5 game is nearly four years, its time may have come and gone, but who knows, the developer might come back and patch it up for those two units. More than likely, they worked fine four years ago, but since the forum community here on Steam went completely dead back in 2016, I can understand why the developer might just decide not to mess with it. Four years can introduce a lot of goofy bugs from various hardware, drivers, and Windows itself.

BYO music as the music in-game is the one really nice metal track, one less nice track that fits the game's graphics significantly better and...that's it for music.

Aside from those minor bugs, the game is very playable and fun, so long as you like turn-based strategy games. It's definitely worth more than the asking price, though maybe not a whole lot more. That said, I got 42 hours of fun out of it, so maybe it's extremely underpriced.

A surprisingly fun little game. A (tiny) bit of base building, simple tactical battles and that 'one more turn' addictiveness that keeps you playing for hours when you only meant to spend a few minutes. You customize your units by buying skills, and those skills improve in interesting ways with use.

Satisfying and worth the purchase price.

Really fun game!

I like the time management, do you rest/send some peasants on a quest/wipe some invaders?

Ressource management is fun too (different resources are used to enhance the kingdom/recruit new units/teach them more skills...)

The turn based combat is playing out fine and each class (three at the start with more to unlock) really has its weaknesses/strong points.

I really don't get the negative reviews for such a low price (under 1€/1.20$ during sale). Again, don't expect to spend 60+ hours with Blades of the Righteous, but i bet i'll spend a few/some fun hours and looking forward to finishing the game at least once on Normal difficulty after an "Easy" run.

It's bad.

The difficulty is artificially boosted by really weirds mechanics, you just don't play with the same rules as the ennemies.

Every single ennemy can always use a skill in the support phase and got a mean to attack/act in the attack phase. You can't, because your troops aren't in range or need a target or plain can't move far enough to act.
Everything can move over 4 tiles. But most of your troops are limited to a 2 tiles move. Combine that to the fact that a bunch of ennemies got a ranged attack in either support or attack phase ( or both ) and you understand that the few HP of your troops aren't going to stay for long.

You don't have ranged attacks. Well, the mage can, but his damage are crap and most ennemies are either immune or highly magic resistant. Which invalidate all the curses and skill of the mage except the healing. There's no ranged troops at start, maybe one is unlockable by a random event but never saw it. But it don't matter, I don't see why a bat can use a ranged attack or an orcs can throw an axe ( for 5 HP damage, while any kind of damaging MELEE skill you can use only deal 2 or 3 ) while none of my thief, brigand or viking can.

The battlefields are really cluttered and your troops scattered in a way that really hinder you. If you got a viking ( occupying 2x1 tiles ) you will get stuck a lot, being unable to reach anything with him because you get a bush or rocks every two tiles. You can't move in diagonal, which force you to lose 2 to 3 turns just to get in position. While ennemies keep on fragging you from range.

You can only do one action per turn while on the map. Either your troops rest, or you dig a treasure, or you do an event, or you attack or you send peaseant to get ressources. While groups of monsters respawn every 3 or 4 turns, making any kind of progress impossible. You plain can't deal a bunch of event without ressources, you get these ressources one at a time by events ( costing you 1 turn ) but you need to waste a couple turn to heal your troops after each fight.
So the game is like that : Do one battle, spend 2 turns healing, do ONE event ( ressource, random quest or treasure ) then fight the group of monster who just appeared, rinse and repeat. It's boring and tedious, especially with how unfair the battles are.

I really wish there was a maybe button... I've had this in my wish list for 2 years now, and nothing has happened.. It doesn't even have enough reviews now to grade it. Anyhow, it was on sale for about 2 dollars, and if you see this on sale for again for that much MAYBE pick it up, but it is clearly not finished... From the story to the UI, this looks like class project at Digipen or whatever. It certainly doesn't have an intuitive UI, nor a workable story other than: "Thems bad guys, kill bad guys cause you good guys." I only put around 20 - 30 minutes and had enough. Though this might be outstanding an hour into it, that doesn't mean crap unless you feel invested enough to put in that time.... I don't even know why I'm writing this review, such as breathing or other bodily functions. Adieu

enjoyed this.