Wartales

Quick Overview
Wartales is an open-world tactical RPG where you lead a band of mercenaries through a harsh medieval land filled with contracts, bandits, ruins, plague aftermath, and survival problems. You are not playing as chosen heroes saving the world — you are managing a crew that needs food, money, weapons, medicine, and enough strength to survive the next job. The official site describes it as an open-world RPG about leading mercenaries in search of wealth across a medieval universe.

What makes Wartales interesting is how grounded it feels. Your party grows slowly, every companion has value, and battles are turn-based, so positioning, armor, injuries, skills, and planning matter more than quick reflexes. The game mixes exploration, tactical combat, resource management, recruitment, bounties, and ancient tomb discoveries.

Who Should Play This Game?
Play Wartales if you enjoy tactical RPGs, mercenary management, slow progression, survival decisions, and open-world exploration without a typical hero fantasy. It is a strong pick for players who like games such as Battle Brothers, XCOM, Mount & Blade, or party-based RPGs where your group feels like something you build over time.

This is not the best choice if you want fast action combat, flashy magic, or a heavily cinematic story. Wartales is more about contracts, camping, injuries, wages, food supplies, tactical fights, and making your mercenary company stronger one job at a time. If you like strategy with a gritty adventure feeling, it can become very addictive.

Performance on PC
Wartales is not extremely demanding, but it still needs a basic gaming PC. The Steam page lists Windows 7 64-bit, Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5, 8 GB RAM, GTX 1050 / AMD RX 550, DirectX 10, and around 30 GB storage as minimum requirements.

On most modern PCs, it should run comfortably at 1080p. Since the combat is turn-based, perfect high FPS is not as critical as it would be in a shooter, but smoother performance helps during world-map travel, towns, and larger battles. For low-end systems, the main things to watch are RAM and GPU strength; 8 GB RAM is the official minimum, while 16 GB gives more breathing room for longer sessions.