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Wartales

Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!

2023 Adventure Indie RPG Strategy ★ Very Positive · 85% 35,970 reviews
Wartales

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Guides

Guides

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Wartales Beginner's Guide — Survive Your First Region

This Wartales beginner's guide covers the things that decide whether a new warband survives its first region: keeping wages paid and bellies full, understanding that enemies never scale to your level, using engagement and Valour Points properly in combat, and building a camp that reduces your running costs. Wartales rarely kills you with a single bad turn. It kills you with a bad economy and a walk into the wrong region, so the early game is about restraint far more than about winning fights.

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Wartales Builds Guide — The Best Build for Every Class

This Wartales builds guide gives one clear recommended path per class, from the named specialisation branch through the later milestones, and explains the reasoning so you can adapt it when a patch moves the numbers. Companions reach milestones at levels 2, 3, 5, 8, 10 and 12, and those six choices are enough to make someone excellent at one job but never good at two. Every build here commits fully to a single role.

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Wartales Camp and Professions Guide — Wages, Food and Upkeep

Most failed Wartales runs are lost to the ledger, not to the battlefield. This guide covers the upkeep systems that decide whether a warband survives: wages that come due regardless of your income, food that drains every day, rest that costs rations, and happiness that turns into desertion when you neglect it. It also covers the camp upgrades that pay for themselves fastest and how to assign all eight professions so that travelling time produces value instead of just consuming it.

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Wartales Classes Tier List — Every Class and Specialisation Ranked

Wartales has seven combat classes and each one branches into named specialisations at a milestone level. This tier list ranks them by how dependably they carry a warband through fixed-difficulty regions, then lists every specialisation branch so you know what you are committing to. Because Wartales has a documented history of balance changes, this ranking is built on role reliability — what a class does that your warband cannot do without — rather than on numbers that shift between patches.

Overview

What's the Game?

Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!

A real open world

Regions with fixed difficulty tiers, explorable in the order you dare.

Warband management

Wages, food, fatigue, happiness and the constant risk of desertion.

Turn-based tactics

Engagement, Valour Points and a deep specialisation tree per class.

Professions and camp

Miner, blacksmith, cook, alchemist, thief, angler, scholar and tinkerer.

Honest caveats

Upkeep grind, repeated balance nerfs and criticised paid cosmetics.

Languages

No Japanese, Traditional Chinese or Italian.

Trailer

Trailer

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Screenshots

Screenshots

Languages

Supported Languages

Language Interface Audio Subtitles
Deutsch
English
Español
Français
한국어
Português (Brasil)
Русский
简体中文

Spec

System Requirements

Windows

Minimum

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64bit Processor: Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX550 DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 30 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64bit Processor: Intel Core i7 2.8 GHz / AMD Ryzen 7 Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVidia GTX 1080 / AMD RX 5600 DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 30 GB available space

macOS

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Minimum:

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Linux

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Achievements

Achievement Highlights

A fledgling fellowship A fledgling fellowship
A job’s a job A job’s a job
A taste for comfort A taste for comfort
Explorers Explorers
In conclusion... In conclusion...
One big happy family One big happy family
Pest control Pest control
Sightseer Sightseer
Workaholic Workaholic
You don't scare me You don't scare me

FAQ

FAQ

Wartales is an open-world tactical RPG from Shiro Games in which you lead a mercenary warband through a medieval world a century after a plague brought the old empire down. You are not heroes: you take contracts, hunt bounties, rob tombs and mines, and try to keep your people paid, fed and willing to follow you. Combat is turn-based and tactical, while the map layer is a survival-flavoured management game of wages, food, fatigue and reputation.
If you want a mercenary-company game with a genuine open world, yes. It holds a Very Positive rating on Steam across roughly 31,000 reviews and it is one of the few games that puts Battle Brothers-style warband management into an explorable world with co-op. Be aware that recent Steam reviews sit at Mixed: long-time players have criticised repeated balance nerfs and a paid cosmetic bundle. The upkeep loop also becomes a chore for some players once the warband grows.
Each companion has a combat class — Swordsman, Brute, Spearman, Archer, Ranger and Warrior in the base game, with the Pugilist added by the Pirates of Belerion DLC. Progression runs through Specialisation milestones at levels 2, 3, 5, 8, 10 and 12, where you pick one option from a small set. The level that offers the named sub-paths differs by class: Swordsman, Warrior and Brute branch at level 2, while Archer, Ranger and Spearman branch at level 3.
Not by default. Regions have fixed difficulty tiers rather than scaling to your warband, so wandering into a late region early gets you killed. That is deliberate: it makes exploration risky and progression meaningful, and it means the order in which you tackle regions genuinely matters. Tiltren County is the intended starting region, with the other regions escalating from there.
No. Steam lists English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Korean — there is no Japanese, no Traditional Chinese and no Italian. Wartales is a text-heavy game full of contracts, dialogue, item descriptions and skill tooltips, so players who need those languages should weigh the barrier carefully before buying.

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