Chieftain

Chieftain

Splout Ltd. · December 22, 2018 · Strategy, Indie, RTS, 4X

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Chieftain price by region

Chieftain costs €3.99 in Europe (EUR), £3.99 in the United Kingdom, $4.99 in the United States, $4.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$5.49 in Canada, NZ$5.95 in New Zealand, A$6.95 in Australia, R$10.00 in Brazil and zł17.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Chieftain offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Europe (EUR) €3.99 €3.99 — 1
United Kingdom £3.99 £3.99 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Canada CA$5.49 CA$5.49 — 1
New Zealand NZ$5.95 NZ$5.95 — 1
Australia A$6.95 A$6.95 — 1
Brazil R$10.00 R$10.00 — 1
Poland zł17.99 zł17.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Chieftain

Chieftain is a fantasy game of world conquest - containing elements of a procedurally generated 4X world, and real-time skirmishes including hundreds of soldiers on screen battling for your dominion and reign to be supreme!

- Choose from 7 fantasy races.
- Each playthrough feels unique with a new procedurally generated world map.
- Maintain a healthy economy, and purchase new troops for your armies.
- Conduct diplomacy in worlds of up to 80 AI nations.
- Conquer foreign lands, and defend your own from your enemies.
- Battles are conducted on procedurally generated maps.
- Use tactical cunning to outwit your enemy.
- Multiple unit types available, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Your goal is to defeat all those in your way and conquer the world.

Are you ready to become a Chieftain?

How to Play



Create armies, settlers and builders to conquer the world map.
Build farms, villages, lumberyards and iron mines for resources, or create a web of alliances and enemies to conquer them from others.
Recruit different types of troop, everything from peasants to musketmen; each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
The time will come to fight battles. When a battle is initiated, the game switches to Battle mode - and your troops appear on a battle map awaiting your orders.
Use tactics to your advantage, use swift moving cavalry to attack your enemy from the rear, or cheap disposable peasants to keep your enemy occupied while you deal with their bowmen.

Be careful! Once your troops are engaged in melee it will be hard to disengage them.
Just like a real battle, your soldiers can become tired (dropping their speed), or become overwhelmed with fear, forcing them to flee the battlefield.

The World


The worlds in Chieftain are made up of scores of nations from 7 distinct races.
Humans have inhabited these lands since days immemorial.
Goblins are an evil, hunchbacked race of demons.
The Kioha are a tribe of undead, spawns from the nethers of Hell.
Freyja are an odd entity originally from the snow-lands.
Draco are cold-hearted lizard-serpents.
A race of beasts of burden, the Vacca are tough warriors.
Cunning and sly, the Lupin are a wolf-like creature.

Chieftain — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

Not recommended Feb 27, 2022
Man, I'm sorry. I HATE to do this because it's such a neat game, kind of a Civ Lite. Battle resolution needs a TON of work. Outnumbered *peasants* defeated my knights. And when the battle was down to my 87 troops to the enemy's (fleeing) 5, I clicked auto-resolve to get it over with -- and LOST. Please fix the battle resolution. It's just plain bad.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 26, 2019
If Civ and Total war had an retarded baby
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 18, 2024
Nothing to do
Recommended Apr 2, 2022
Okay but its sometimes sluggish and repetative. GET IT ON SALE RATING 7/10
Recommended Jan 2, 2020
Decent game. It is essentially a combination of Civilization and Total War, though not as good as either. I encountered a few problems with the controls (UI elements being unresponsive to the mouse, mainly, though the camera controls in the battle sequences are awful), and the AI is not good (dumb as dirt on the overworld, always reacts the same in battles, etc.). Still, despite these shortcomings, I feel like this is a pretty okay game, especially if you grab it during a sale. I love 4X games, so I am willing to overlook some flaws, and I like the random worlds/factions and fantasy themes/races a lot. If you are not so much a fan of strategy games, this game will not change your opinion. I recommend it to others who like the genre.
Recommended Oct 6, 2019
When I first got this game I played it for like 3 hours and never played again until recently because it was too hard for me to play (probably cause I didn't understand how to do stuff properly). But since playing recently I actually really like it! It's fun and can be frustrating at times because of the AI, but it's cool to see your faction that you made thrive and dominate the other factions. Although there are a few things I don't like such as having to look around the map for factions that declared war on you and also the AI for declaring war on you even though they are weak and on the opposite end of the map from you. Overall it's a fun and interesting game for only 5 bucks.

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