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Lead a band of medieval mercenaries, taking contracts, exploring regional stories, and fighting tactical turn-based battles.
Released 12 Apr 2023
Lead Mercenaries
Plan Turn-Based Battles
Take Bounty Contracts
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!
Developed by Shiro Games · Published by Shiro Games








In a plague-ravaged medieval land, you lead a company of mercenaries focused on surviving and earning a living rather than saving the world. Travel freely through regions with their own conflicts and stories, or move on whenever you choose.
Explore villages and wilderness, take contracts and bounties, investigate tombs, and gather resources. Recruit mercenaries with different classes and specialties, and encounter animals and other opportunities as you travel.
Combat is turn-based and tactical: position your team, choose who acts and when, and use skills and equipment to overcome each fight. Between battles, manage wages, food, and morale, assign professions, craft gear, and improve your camp as your company develops.
Players who praise Wartales often enjoy its tactical fights, the challenge of managing a mercenary company, and exploring a world with regional quests and side activities. Some also value developing characters and the personal stories that emerge among companions. Many reviews, including some from players who like the core game, criticize DLC pricing and in-game prompts for locked content; bugs and repetitive or uneven progression are also recurring concerns.











| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 235 |
| Age ratings |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Wartales supports single-player and online co-op. The provided description states the world can be traversed as a band of up to 4 players. Reviews describe co-op as full-campaign/shared-session play with players staying close together on the world map, shared combat participation, and shared resources through camp storage. Reviews also state there is no drop-in/drop-out and that the original co-op roster is fixed for that save. |
| Multiplayer & mods | One review mentions mod variety on Nexus Mods but says there is no official mod support. No provided information states any specific multiplayer mod support or multiplayer-specific mod behavior. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 9 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |