Urtuk: The Desolation on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting. Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.

Urtuk: The Desolation is a turn-based tactics, hex grid and wargame game developed and published by David Kaleta.
Released on February 27th 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, Russian, Polish, French, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 2,365 reviews of which 2,090 were positive and 275 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Urtuk: The Desolation into these genres:

Turn-Based Tactics Hex Grid Wargame Dark Tactical RPG Difficult Procedural Generation Post-apocalyptic Singleplayer Dark Fantasy Turn-Based Combat Strategy Tactical Replay Value Perma Death Turn-Based Strategy Turn-Based 2D Fantasy Strategy RPG

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
  • Processor: 2.0 Ghz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB
  • Storage: 600 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Note 1. Older Intel Integrated graphics (3000 and older) running in Windows 10 won't run this game. Windows 7 works however. Note 2: If you experience a crash during game start up, you might have outdated graphics drivers. Try set the game's "urtuk.exe" file compatibility mode to Win8.
MacOS
  • OS: OSX 10.15
  • Processor: 1.2 Ghz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB
  • Storage: 600 MB available space
Linux
  • OS: Fedora 25, Ubuntu 16.04, SteamOS, Mint 18
  • Processor: 1.2 Ghz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB
  • Storage: 600 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025
The game does indeed feel pretty basic at first. It is heavily (maybe solely) focused around combat and squad management. Buuuut, I played for 200+ hours and it still feels fun. I usually list pros and cons for any game I review. Here I feel that it is not needed. Urtuk: The Desolation delivers admirably at what it has to offer. Content and mechanics at which it can possibly fail are just not included in the game. There are tons of unique character classes that exist in the game. Almost any enemy you can encounter can be a hero in your party too. That is why combat feel fair. AI tries to focus-fire your weakest character, to surround your guys and to exploit crits. You can fool it, but if you make a mistake - it punishes gladly. Most combat maps are random-generated so fights feel different. Mission nodes respawn (and are random too), so you can farm stuff you need as long as it takes. Global "timer" can be ignored. Battlefield is dynamic and can change during the fight by character abilities and special events. RNG can make even easy missions brutally hard so chosing Ironman mode for hardest difficulty is probably not a good idea. Tactical combat in Urtuk is very well made. Most traits characters have can be extracted and put into other guys. There is limit to this and active abilities can not be extracted. Equipment range available to each class can not be changed. So, it is hardly possible to turn different characters into carbon copies of each other, but it it allows huge variation within every class (and there are tons of classes available). Player characters can have more traits than enemies and better equipment, but your party can only have up to 6 members present on a battlefield. Enemy has numerical superiority (20+ guys with reinforcements? easy). Ah, I forgot: there is a drawback, kind of. First (strategic level) map has more content, more unique missions and bosses than all others. As global goal is to form your dream-team and defeat bosses, strategic maps do not feel like chapters. Thus, uneven content distribution hardly feels like a drawback. Conclusion: Excellent fights, nice squad management, art style is superb. No unecessary features.
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Jan. 2025
A game that is somewhat of a cross between Battle Brothers and Darkest Dungeon but with really litlle RNG. A distinct visual look, a great deal of charm and a huge amount of depth to the tactical combat & lots of customisation in the way to play it. Soundtrack is great. May be missing a wee bit of polish & quality of life stuff. But at that price & considering it's a new game company, I am really impress. A must try for turn base lover imo.
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Dec. 2024
Let me admire the creator of this game. For me it became a pearl in the indie gaming. Game mechanics are nice, spicy and engaging. Visual style is my favourite. Another thanks for capability to play this game on Linux.
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Oct. 2024
It's like Battle Brothers, but a lot more METAL, and a lot less frustrating if you've ever played Battle Brothers and raged because you had a good run ruined by some absolute BS RNG, then this is the game for you
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Aug. 2024
Well... not a bad game for sure. It probably had an eye on Darkest Dungeon during its development, which is not bad. However, there are a few things that really make the game less enjoyable that it should be. First of all, the gory bloody aspect, which doesn't bring any value in such a game. Second, the map does not rotate, and is extremely difficult to read sometime. So you end up sending your troops on one side of the map, before realizing that the terrain is blocked. Bummer! Third, you cannot see your characters' equipment and characteristics during a fight, but is clearly annoying and I cannot see a good reason for preventing this. Last, for some reason, the difficulty is really not linear. The third level, The Ruins, is much more difficult and unforgiving than the previous ones. Bottom line, if you can cope with the above, that's fine, but just keep in mind the (lack of) readability of the map! Enjoy Urtuk!
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Frequently Asked Questions

Urtuk: The Desolation is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.

Urtuk: The Desolation is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 11.79€ on Steam.

Urtuk: The Desolation received 2,090 positive votes out of a total of 2,365 achieving a rating of 8.47.
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Urtuk: The Desolation was developed and published by David Kaleta.

Urtuk: The Desolation is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Urtuk: The Desolation is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Urtuk: The Desolation is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Urtuk: The Desolation is a single-player game.

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Urtuk: The Desolation does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Urtuk: The Desolation does not support Steam Remote Play.

Urtuk: The Desolation 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.

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Urtuk: The Desolation
11.79€
8.5
2,090
275
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Developer
David Kaleta
Publisher
David Kaleta
Release 27 Feb 2021
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