Wartales (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.29436 Update

Wartales is a tactical role-playing game developed by Shiro Games and published by Shiro Unlimited in 2023. Players manage a mercenary band as it attempts to survive in a low fantasy world that is trying to recover from a plague. Invites you to lead a band of mercenaries in a sprawling medieval realm, where survival and wealth are the ultimate pursuits.

The once-honorable virtues have faded into obscurity, and the land teems with mercenary opportunities, banditry, and thievery. In this unforgiving world, you won’t be the hero destined to bring peace. Your sole objective is survival and prosperity, achieved by any means necessary. Only the boldest and most ambitious can hope to etch their tale into the annals of Wartales.

Traverse Wartales’ expansive world with a squad of up to four players, strategizing and preparing before facing the many hostile inhabitants that roam these mysterious lands. Collaborate to overcome challenges and share wealth, loot, and resources. Build camaraderie around a campfire with your devoted companions, forging bonds that will conquer any obstacle.

Shape your mercenaries’ destiny. Guide a crew of mercenaries through a perilous journey for riches and renown in a medieval world gripped by poverty and avarice.  Recruit diverse companions with unique specializations, skills, weapon preferences, and personalities.

Tailor your group’s abilities, gear, and appearance via an intuitive RPG progression and crafting system. Enhance your camp with luxuries, tools, and equipment to help your team endure and recover from the daily challenges. Embark on an epic exploration. Traverse a sprawling, enigmatic world in your quest for fame, fortune, and acknowledgment.

Immerse yourself in vibrant villages and relics of a bygone era. Unearth the secrets of this unforgiving world by delving into abandoned mines, tombs, and camps. Prosper and script your legend. Secure bounties and tackle contracts, from shielding the innocent from petty thieves to confronting the realm’s most infamous figures.

No profit is too modest. Employ a tactical turn-based combat system to outmaneuver your adversaries, emphasizing thoughtful planning and strategic choices in character selection, equipment, and tactics for each distinctive battle. Team up with comrades. Traverse Wartales’ expansive world with a squad of up to four players.

Strategizing and preparing before facing the many hostile inhabitants that roam these mysterious lands.  Collaborate to overcome challenges and share wealth, loot, and resources. Build camaraderie around a campfire with your devoted companions, forging bonds that will conquer any obstacle.

GAMEPLAY

After being hit by a magical plague, a medieval land suffers shortages and banditry. Wartales is a tactical role-playing game with sandbox gameplay. The game has an open world in which players traverse an overworld map, encountering points of interest, such as towns, dungeons, and other mercenaries. When the player’s group encounters hostile non-player characters or animals, turn-based combat is resolved on a tactical map.

There are elements of survival games, where characters gather necessary resources, such as raw food or leather, and craft items from them, such as cooked food or clothing.  Characters tire as they travel, and camping is necessary once they have become exhausted. If players’ mercenaries are not fed while camping, they may desert.

While camping, characters can engage in a variety of actions related to their profession, such as cooking, blacksmithing, and appraising relics found while adventuring. Players can optionally enable level scaling. If they choose not to, regions on the map become progressively more difficult as players travel further.

Players are presented with narrative choices, and each region has a storyline that players can investigate, but there is no main quest or overarching storyline. The game takes on elements of an economic simulation instead, forcing players to find ways to finance their growing mercenary company. It has cooperative multiplayer.