

In Battle Brothers – Blazing Deserts, your band of mercenaries can travel to independent city-states, fight in an arena for fame and fortune (or go down in torrents of arterial blood spray), and face the new enemies, such as desert raiders and deadly southern beasts, in battle. Therefore, you won’t find any mages casting fireballs or paladins wielding magical swords-just down-and-out dudes trying to survive in a dangerous, procedurally-generated world. In other words, you get the feeling that your band of mercenaries is composed of desperate men who are merely trying to eke out a living as a scurrilous sword-for-hire.

Blazing Deserts continues this trend and you’ll find that the new mercenary origins fit right in with the base game. What sets Battle Brothers apart from many of the similar turn-based tactical games is that it has a really gritty feel to it.

Battle Brothers – Blazing Deserts is obviously inspired by Middle-Eastern cultures, such as some medieval Persian and Arabian ones. Whereas their previous DLC, Warriors of the North, focused on frigid Scandinavian-like environs-complete with fierce barbarians-this time you’ll travel to a massive southern area with sprawling, scorching deserts, and lush oases. Overhype Studios recently released their new DLC, Battle Brothers – Blazing Deserts, to its ever-growing fan base and newbies alike. Along the way, you’ll have to contend with all sorts of dangerous denizens, including bloodthirsty bandits, as well as a wide variety of monsters and aggressive wildlife. You start with your base mercenaries (dependent on which origin you choose) and can hire more men throughout your travels. In Battle Brothers, you manage a mercenary company and have to navigate through a low-power, medieval setting in order to take on various contracts. Battle Brothers proved, once again, that you don’t have to have tons of funds behind a project to make it successful if you believe in it enough (and of course, it’s a great game, to begin with). As an independent developer, Overhype Studios didn’t have the budget to compete with larger game studios so they instead focused on gameplay. Battle Brothers made a rather quiet splash within the gaming community when it debuted three-and-a-half years ago.
