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The continent of Runersia is home to six major powers with more than 40 bases, 100 knights, and 50 types of monsters. Select a ruler, organize knights and monsters into troops, and conquer enemy bases!
Brigandine The Legend of Runersia is a strategy, turn-based strategy and turn-based tactics game
developed by Happinet and Matrix
and published by Happinet.
Released on May 10th 2022 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 4 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese.
It has received 1,336 reviews of which 1,136 were positive and 200 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Brigandine The Legend of Runersia into these genres:
Strategy
Turn-Based Strategy
Turn-Based Tactics
Dark Fantasy
Hex Grid
Fantasy
Top-Down
Strategy RPG
Dragons
Medieval
Singleplayer
Magic
Atmospheric
Anime
3D
Simulation
JRPG
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Brigandine The Legend of Runersia:
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| English | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Traditional Chinese | |||
| Japanese |
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 8.1 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3-3225 over, AMD A8-6500 over
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 650 over, AMD Radeon 6450 over, Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 over
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 23 GB available space
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I recommend this game but with my thumb up only 70% of the way and only when it's on offer . On paper, this is the perfect game for me: collecting heroes and monsters, raising them, changing classes or evolving them, and collecting loot. But the game comes with a host of issues that damage the overall experience very badly. 1. It's on PC, but is "optimised" for controllers. The default mouse and keyboard controls demonstrate a complete lack of thought by developers. After some play time (mouse + keyboard) I recommend you remap it to this from the very beginning. a. Keep the standard WASD b. Change the toggle left and right between menus and selectable units to Q and E c. Change confirm, cancel, more info to V, C, X, Z You should have a much easier (logical) time this way. I do not recommend playing with Keyboard only as it's extremely clunky that way (and so likely would be for controllers as well). 2. Low variation between armies / Many Knights are good for nothing The game is marketed as 100 knights and 50 monsters to battle with. While technically true, the Knights lead 1 army each and cannot lead each other . a. This severely limits your play style and combinations since all the Knights (no matter the faction) end up playing the same Jobs and leading the same few monsters since "50 monsters" includes later evolution forms. (Comparatively, a WH3 faction gives you more functional troop variety than this entire game. Kislev gives you mages and bears. Cathay gives you shapeshifting dragons, flying cavalry and balloon artillery. Chaos gives you all manner of demons. There's even Dwarves with torpedoes and dinosaurs riding dinosaurs if you own DLCs.) b. Low level knights you obtain late game are difficult to raise to any value, especially when you don't need them to lead more troops and they can't do Quests properly. Can't you send the lowbie Knights out Questing to find stuff and level up? Nope. You can't. 3. Terrible Quest system / low loot volume / Knights on Quests do not grow The Quest system is terribly designed and hell for people who love loot. The noob Knights keep failing Quests. Only high-level Knights with advanced jobs can succeed most of the time . But those high-level idiots only return with 0-1 item each, usually of slots you don't need, mostly of low rarity. So, after over 50 farking turns, 6 Knights failed to find me a single high grade Monster robe at the Mana Spring . I only started finding them after I increased the number of max-tier Knights from 2 to 6. (The other 4 Knights were never noobs and had mid-tier jobs with "decent" success rate. Also note that in order to advance their jobs, I had to disregard strategy to manufacture conflict in a way that makes no sense.) And after over 10 farking turns of 10 advanced Knights looking, I have still yet to find a single high grade dagger. Ironically, the guys who are Questing for daggers are mostly Thieves that I forcefully power-levelled into Treasure Hunters using "last hits" barehanded because I could not find any weapons for them to begin with. At this point, I don't actually need the daggers at all, I'm just angrily searching out of principle. I get that rare items are rare and shouldn't come too easy. But this set up doesn't work for this game if you love loot, because you can actually end the game in 1/4 of the time without using any rare items. (I actually finished the first time without doing a single Phantom quest and found it rather unsatisfying. I didn't even know you could get a set bonus for equipping items of the same rarity tier.) It's just an overall terrible experience when you're forced to artificially lengthen the game, keep sending Knights out and they keep coming back empty handed or with crap that can't be used, sold, traded or fused, only discarded using very clunky controls. This isn't like lengthening your FF8 play time to play Triple Threat or Witcher play time to play Gwent. That's actually fun, this isn't. And to make things worse, Knights don't get EXP or Job Proficiency from Questing for items. You get literally nothing and it's just bland. It should also be said that Quest locations also don't indicate what Knight / Job is compatible with the quest until the Knight goes there. So you unless you metagame by reading a forum, you have to manually send Knights here, there, everywhere and keep changing their jobs at the location until you figure out who can be used where. In summary, the entire Quest mechanics, interface and features needs an overhall. There needs to be a Quest menu you can select the item types you want that automatically dispatches the Knights to the locations. 4. Job proficiency challenges A great and fun feature of this game is swapping Knight classes to gather more passive skills and spells. Unfortunately, if you get a high-level Knight late game, you can't . Job proficiency appears to be tied to every level up . If the Knight comes to you already high-level and without any other job proficiencies, you cannot level them up another 10-15 times to gain any other useful job spells / passives. Too bad. And of course, if you get low-level Knights late game, you also can't because the game is ending and you don't have enough time left (or reason) to raise them. You can't send them out for Quests to get proficiency either way, remember? Quite stupidly, I used Zoar's tear to level up Knights faster so I can find more loot for fun instead of ending the game. Frankly you can end the game easily without ever doing a single Phantom quest and getting the Zoar's tear. 5. Bugs: Cannot dismiss Knights / Mouse randomly stops working In Challenge mode, your total Knights are capped at 20 including the Overlord you choose. You're required to dump the extra Knights, but you can't. There's a bug that stops you from clicking them. You have to keep sorting and resorting them until you can click and dismiss heroes. A fix that sometimes works is to sort them to the higher part of the list but this failed for me sometimes too. Occassionally the mouse just stops clicking and that isn't fun either. It's solely a game issue, the mouse works fine when I change windows. And yes, thanks to that I got to verify that the game is indeed very clunky without mouse. ___ Lastly, not really an issue but a pet peeve. I can't believe that for a game so focused on using Monsters as an army, you don't have Knights and Monsters that make it easier to steal the enemy's rare Monster aside from Charm. And there's no class or monster that can summon more monsters while on the field (apart from the Lich, sort of). It would be nice to see more troop variety like soldiers, spiders, teleporters, undead class up variants, obstruction / trap creators and summoners.
I played this game again after trying Brigandine Abyss on PS5, and that game was an absolute joke. Runersia feels like the most complete modern Brigandine experience and I don't know why Abyss pretty much devolved into the trash that it is by cutting everything. If you're torn between the two games, get Runersia instead. You'll have a better experience with it.
Without spoiling, if you love Fire Emblem (especially Three Houses), you'll most likely love this game too. 9/10 on my first playthrough & 8/10 on subsequent ones. & considering it has 6 kingdoms/houses to choose from, you'll probably come back for repeats. Not to mention the hand-drawn art for every character, background & cut scenes are genuinely impressive, & shows real care & affection from the devs towards building this game. The occasional cutscenes (aka sortie events) in battle between characters that know each other are fun little easter eggs whenever they appear. After a while it even got me restructuring my teams just to collect them too. It's a great time, no alcohol required.
If you grew up playing Brigandine GE or Forsena, this is definitely worth a look, though it’s not without its flaws. The soundtrack is a major highlight—it’s beautiful and very well-composed. Unfortunately, the visual direction didn't really click for me. The 3D graphics feel a bit forced. I personally think the game would have looked much better with polished 2D visuals that stayed true to its roots. The Quest system is another gripe of mine. It feels tedious and over-regulated, especially when you consider the time wasted on quests that can fail or yield poor results. I managed to complete the game with two different kingdoms, but I didn't feel motivated to go any further. It's a decent experience if you're looking for a nostalgia trip, but it might not hold your attention forever.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Brigandine The Legend of Runersia is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.
No, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 33.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia received 1,136 positive votes out of a total of 1,336 achieving a rating of 8.10.
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Brigandine The Legend of Runersia was developed by Happinet and Matrix and published by Happinet.
Yes, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia is not playable on MacOS.
No, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia does not support VR.
Brigandine The Legend of Runersia is a single-player game.
No, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Brigandine The Legend of Runersia 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 Brigandine The Legend of Runersia.
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Online players
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Developer
Happinet,
Matrix
Publisher
Happinet
Release
10 May 2022
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