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Battle Talent is a challenging physics-based rogue-lite sword-fighting game, and now includes multiplayer mode, team up with friends to defeat enemies! You can create your own fighting style in a mega seamless procedural dungeon. With over 80 enemy variants, 100 weapons, and 60 perks.
Battle Talent is a vr, swordplay and moddable game
developed by
and published by Cydream.
Released on June 01st 2023 is available only on Windows
in 6 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, French, Russian and Japanese.
It has received 935 reviews of which 715 were positive and 220 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Battle Talent into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS: windows7
- Processor: i5-7260U 2.2GHz
- Memory: 4000 MB RAM
- Graphics: GTX1060
- Storage: 6000 MB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR
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Okay, so this game. Man, this game. I promise whoever gives me the time of day to read this something actually worth reading, and I hope you consider it when or if you bought the game. However, since Steam doesn't give me much room to type, instead of typing what I like about the game, I want to point some attention to a few of the negative points I see brought up in reviews, and how I think a lot of them are unfair. Now, allow me to preface that this game isn't perfect, and I don't think it's above criticism. Criticism is good actually, when it's constructive and fair. However, many of the negative reviews I see for this game, especially on Steam, fail to actually be fair with their points and/or illustrate ways they think the problem could be fixed. Multiplayer is bad and doesn't work: Let me start off with one of the big ones, and that's the Multiplayer. A lot of people complain about the multiplayer for the game, and admittedly, the multiplayer isn't the best thing ever. It's run on peer-to-peer connection. Yet, many people disregard the fact that multiplayer is just supposed to be a little bonus on the side. It's not supposed to be the main mode of the game. It's like complaining that trophy rush in Smash Bros is sub-par, so the game is bad. Okay, but that's not to say that people can't want good multiplayer, so what gives? Well, the thing is, servers are difficult to afford. The development team for the game have been thinking about dedicated servers for the game, but the thing is, that's hard to achieve, especially for a game like this, because it only gets revenue by people purchasing it. It's easy to forget how small the team for this game is, and how expensive servers are in general, not to mention with a game like this, which is physics based. Despite that fact, they've been continuously working with what they have, and they're trying to make the currently serverless multiplayer run better, and to their credit, it has been getting better, despite the spottiness still there. However, I think that especially for something like this, we need to be patient. (and as of June 1st 2025, our patience paid off, and dedicated servers exist! https://fonzieliu.itch.io/btds ) I'd feel differently about this if it was supposed to be a multiplayer game, and it was MAINLY advertised for its multiplayer. In that case, yea, the multiplayer should be better. However, multiplayer is far from the main point of this game. Okay, I mention how singleplayer is the main point of this game, so lets talk about stuff revolving more around that. The game is unfair or too easy: So, reviews on this game that mention the difficulty seem to be mixed. Some people say it's awfully designed and unfair, and other people say that it's too easy and you can just jiggle your sword around and win. I disagree with both of these. Especially the one about it being too easy, it's not the hardest thing ever, but, like, c'mon. However, I'll say that in certain cases, there's some validity to things people say. One example I can think of is how much damage bombs do to you. Some of the little goblin enemies can throw bombs. They're quite telegraphed, and do give you time. ...However, they should NOT take as much health as they do. Like, gosh, they take up absolute CHUNKS of your health for what feels like no good reason when you get hit with one, especially since they throw out lots of them. However, this is supposed to be a challenging game. You can't entirely dislike the challenge game for being kind of difficult when that's basically the point of it. But, it doesn't mean you can't call it out when it's straight up unfair. But, I personally feel that it's not straight up unfair that often. Not to mention the fact that the game basically doesn't punish the player at all for simply using the cheat menu you can unlock in adventure mode. The game gives you a lot of freedom with how you approach it in many different areas, and doesn't reprimand you for doing something like turning the difficulty down in the settings and such. I dislike being that guy, however I feel like a lot of the things people complain about when it comes to the game being unfair is an issue of them not giving it enough time. And, it is sort of hard to do in under the 2 hours Steam gives before you refund a product. But the game is actually a lot more fair than people say it is. Enemy attacks are generally telegraphed, and while they can be fast, they're basically always reactable by either parrying, or using the dodge ability you unlock. (it gives you I-frames) Speaking of the parrying/deflecting system! Parrying/Deflecting isn't good and doesn't work: To quote one of the top reviews for this game. "you would expect a game that requires you to spend most of your time parrying to actually have a functional parrying mechanic." However, it does work! In fact, in my opinion, it's one of the best parrying mechanics in VR. It feels super good. However... I think I know why people dislike the parrying. It. Is. The. Tutorial. The tutorial for parrying/deflecting is bad on so many ways that it literally gaslit a bunch of people into thinking one of the best feeling parries in VR isn't functional or doesn't work. So, first things first, the area it gives you for the tutorial is really small. You'll spawn in, and it won't seem that bad, and honestly, after you're used to the mechanic, it actually isn't that bad, you'll need to parry in tighter spaces if you're in, say, a dungeon while you're traveling the halls, right? Nevertheless, it's important to remember that this is the tutorial. Meaning in most cases, if you're playing this right now, you don't know how to do this. General defense in this game requires to you space away from enemies. It's a swordplay/weaponry game, so you have to treat your enemies as such. You don't get close to someone with a weapon if you don't have a plan. But, the tutorial never elaborates on the fact that you should likely space yourself away from the enemy. And you might think "but why would it matter? like you said, it's a sword game, you're gonna do that already, right?" And that's the thing, you likely would in actual gameplay, the game requires it, really. However, this is an early tutorial. They're not gonna do that. Because of how the human brain works, they're likely to stand dead still in place and try to parry the enemy, not making any effort to space themselves away for a better parry. Not that you can't, since you can totally do that, even with the enemy they give you in this tutorial while standing still. Parrying is easy, heck, you can parry attacks with your fists if you want to, (it feels good to do too) all you have to do is swing the weapon in the general direction of the enemy's weapon as they swing at you. This would be more excusable if the enemy made more of an attempt to space away from, the player. So, what gives? Well, you see, the enemy is a skeleton. You might think, "well why does that matter?" But the thing about skeletons is that part of their AI is the fact that they actively press and get close the player more than every other enemy type, getting especially close to you. To make matters worse, it feels as if for the specific skeletons they chose for the tutorial value their (lack of a) life even less, since they get especially close to you. Again, you totally can parry them when they're super close, but it's a tutorial. You need to expect that the person playing it has no idea what they're doing. I believe this is a game very worth your time. It's not for everyone, and it can take a bit of time to get used to for some, but you'll be rewarded with one of the best feeling combat systems in VR! There's so much I couldn't get to in this review, but Steam didn't let me type as much as I want to. If you read this, thank you for giving me your time!
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Battle Talent is basically Blade & Sorcery if it decided to also be Devil May Cry and Mirror's Edge. These devs are fucking madlads and this game is my new workout routine.
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I love this game, it's challenging not too easy. And if you say that the weapons are janky or the parrying doesnt work then it's just a skill issue.
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I like this game because it has tons of weapons, large variety of mods, npcs, and modes. Combat feels challenging with the harder npcs.
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I enjoy this game, thus I am giving it a good review, this is how reviewing works, stop giving your favorite games bad reviews because "you want to change the mind of people looking through negative reviews" People looking through negative reviews are genuinely looking for flaws and not just random stuff in the slog of positive reviews
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Frequently Asked Questions
Battle Talent is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
Battle Talent is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.
Battle Talent received 715 positive votes out of a total of 935 achieving a rating of 7.31.
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Battle Talent was published by Cydream.
Battle Talent is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Battle Talent is not playable on MacOS.
Battle Talent is not playable on Linux.
Battle Talent offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Battle Talent includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
Battle Talent does not currently offer any DLC.
Battle Talent does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Battle Talent does not support Steam Remote Play.
Battle Talent is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Battle Talent.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
21
Publisher
Cydream
Release
01 Jun 2023
VR
VR Supported
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