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!
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Guides
Guides
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.
buildWartales 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.
guideWartales 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.
guideWartales 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.
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Supported Languages
| Language | Interface | Audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deutsch | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| English | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Español | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Français | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| 한국어 | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Português (Brasil) | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Русский | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| 简体中文 | ✓ | — | ✓ |
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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
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Linux
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