Bandit the game

Bandit the game

Adrian Ubiorski · August 28, 2019 · Survival, Exploration, Base Building, Tower Defense, Indie

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About Bandit the game

Warning, this game is entirely made by one person.

Fight, gain experience, die, repeat.

At first, you're weak. Seek out the weakest, gain levels, and grow stronger. You'll probably die many times along the way, but don't worry, death is just a process; you'll respawn at the nearest graveyard. RPG game.

Large Open World

The game offers a vast open world with over 100 unique locations. Two large worlds. Do you enjoy searching for hidden treasures? The game rewards exploration.

Build your base.

The game allows you to build your own base, or even a city. Build mines, fields, lumberjack huts, and houses for your workers to sleep in. Build your own house from building blocks, or build a pre-made one and decorate it. Build crafting tables, and much more.

Build defenses for your base against enemy raids.

Periodically, your base/city will be attacked; build defensive towers and deploy soldiers to prevent the enemy from destroying the city obelisk. The game offers simplified Tower Defense elements (optional).

Crafting


Each level earns you blueprint points that allow you to unlock new crafting items. The game has over 700 different items, many of which you can craft yourself: weapons, armor, food, potions, and much more.

Quests

The game offers a multitude of different missions, sometimes with varying moral decisions. An interesting and lengthy main storyline, quests offered by NPCs, notice boards, faction quests: Mercenaries, Mages (not yet available), Monster Hunters (not yet available), arena, and more.--- Full description ---Bandit the game is a single-player open-world action RPG with optional tower defense elements. You play as a character named Argos who fights for survival in a vast world full of dangers such as powerful beasts, dragons, trolls, and other creatures, as well as corrupt guards and the undead. But fear not, you have plenty of ways to rid the world of them. You have swords, axes, hammers, bows, skills, magic, and summoned creatures at your disposal. The world is vast and ready to be explored, with hand-designed dungeons and a world. You start as a lowly bandit, but you can end up as a hero or villain depending on your decisions while completing various tasks. Beside saving the world, you can spend your time mining minerals, cutting down trees, gathering plants, or hunting creatures for resources... to create new weapons, tools, armor, and more. Or you can use these resources to construct new buildings, defensive towers, mines... simply to create your own small town.--- Character ---With each level, you gain power. When you fill the experience bar, you will receive learning points and blueprint points. Learning points can be used to develop attributes, skills or magic. Blueprint points can be used to unlock new crafting and city-building blueprints. Some blueprints can also be purchased or found.--- Weapons ---The game features dozens of different weapons, including one-handed and two-handed swords, axes, hammers, shields, and bows, as well as a wide range of skills (related to the selected weapon type), such as kicks, Battle cry, and earthquakes. If you prefer the path of magic, there is also a lot to choose from: three different schools of magic. They offer offensive, defensive, and support spells. You have access to spells such as healing, fireball, lightning, fire rain, summoning various creatures, teleportation, and many more.--- Enemies ---You will encounter dozens of different creatures in the world. At the beginning of the game, most of them will be much stronger than you, so you must first find the weakest ones. You will probably die many times trying to defeat them, but death has no consequences. Over time, you will grow stronger, you will feel the difference, and it will give you the feeling of actually growing in strength. You will encounter goblins, undead, giant worms, spiders, trolls, golems, and many creatures you have probably never seen before. You will also meet NPCs: both hostile and friendly, wielding various weapons.--- Exploration ---The world has been designed by hand, every city, dungeon, cave, and forest and more. You won't encounter a randomly generated world; I tried to make each location as unique as possible. You'll find plenty of hidden items, exploration rewards, weapons, and much more. You'll also find anomalies that you'll have to fight your way through if you want to earn artifacts.--- Building a base/city ---The game allows you to build your own small city (optional), which will be invaded from time to time. You can build defensive towers and soldiers to defend it, but they need to have their requirements met in order to work. You can build mines, farmland, and houses for workers. You can build ready-made buildings or construct them from components. You can decorate them inside and out, and different buildings serve different functions. It's not as complicated as it might sound; it's a simple system, after all, it's not an RTS or management game. Or you can just build your base and defend yourself. Or you can send out raids and manage your gang.--- Crafting ---You can cut down any tree, break most rocks, mine minerals, and collect resources from dead creatures and plants. You will find resources of a various quality. You can use them to craft food, potions, rings, medallions, armor, and weapons, or use them to build your base/city.

This game is being created by just one person with no budget! From gamer for gamers, out of love for games.

Bandit the game — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended May 15, 2026
This game reminds me of the Gothic, Risen, and Elex series, with elements from even the Morrowind and Oblivion games. I do like so far. May feel different for those unfamiliar with Gotic or Risen series mechanics, but it is definitely worth checking out. To be honest, I have paid for games before that were not as good. Having said all that, it could also use a few tweaks here as many games often do.
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Recommended May 3, 2026
Very good bones in terms of potential. I'm enjoying the game understanding that it still needs work. Starting out the character is very weak. Some pathing issues with companion and quest bugs. It's still early for the game and if you go into it aware of that you can have some fun. I'm excited to see how it comes along. Give it a fair shot.
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Recommended Apr 18, 2026
A game with big dreams, and works with what is there. Game reaches for the stars, and gets close. Great game .. to playtest, and see what work has been done. A lot of gameplay here. Very good.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 22, 2026
Not bad, it has potential but it's definetly pretty rough right now. What bothered me was mostly the controls. Feels very clunky and no setting for sensitivity is always a bad start.
Not recommended Jun 16, 2026
do not play if you have ocd with building. you CANNOT build your fort gate on the road, you have to place it off to the side and it is frustrating trying to get it to look like a normal castle gate. played and beat the game 4 years ago, came back to see the changes. i am glad you can now have companions, but there is still ALOT to fix with the game. will return in another few years to see if anything is better. it would be nice to have stats that increase harvest amount. PROBLEM SPOILER: the mission to unlock the soul drain blueprint causes the game to break and you cannot access the menu, it just locks up. you can open and close the menu, but you cannot save, load, adjust inventory and so on.
Recommended Mar 25, 2026
3 out of 5. Needs a bit more polish and some parts need better development. That said it's being developed by one person and looks decent considering. It's good to see that even though it's a nearly 6 year old game that it's still being worked on and not abandoned like many others.

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