Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades
Unicorn Games Studio · 2011 · Strategy, Medieval, RTS, Historical
PC
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About Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades
Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades is the next installment in this series of realistic real-time strategy games covering various periods in the development of the present day civilization – from the Middle Ages to today. This new title helps players witness the key events in the history of the Teutonic Order in 13th century, namely conquering the pagan Prussia. All battles form a single storyline campaign. The player will act as a Komtur of the Teutonic Order as they relive the battles of the crusaders, regardless of the low manpower of the Order and the strong resistance of the heathens.
The project perfectly comprises two types of gameplay and owing to that the objectives of the Komtur are not simply limited to participation in battles. The strategic map involves the gamer into a colorful and integral world and allows them to travel around the map in the real time. The mode features full freedom of movement, dialogues with locals, RPG elements, quest system and much more. However, sooner or later, the players will have no other choice other than engage their faithful warriors into a battle. And this could be a combat with other armies, large-scale sieges of towns and castles, using various special assault weaponry and tools and fight right on top the walls and fortifications.
The project perfectly comprises two types of gameplay and owing to that the objectives of the Komtur are not simply limited to participation in battles. The strategic map involves the gamer into a colorful and integral world and allows them to travel around the map in the real time. The mode features full freedom of movement, dialogues with locals, RPG elements, quest system and much more. However, sooner or later, the players will have no other choice other than engage their faithful warriors into a battle. And this could be a combat with other armies, large-scale sieges of towns and castles, using various special assault weaponry and tools and fight right on top the walls and fortifications.
Key features:
- RPG system. Troops gain experience throughout the campaign and carry it over from battle to battle.
- Combat system. A unique combat system, dependent on up to 80 game factors. Moral component of the combat system evaluates the battlefield situation every second to bring the simulation of combat behavior for the “living” warriors as close to reality as possible.
- Unprecedented scale. Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades features not only really large-scale battles with more than 10,000 warriors engaged, but impressive and unprecedentedly vast actions during the siege and defense of towns and castles, using various special assault weaponry and tools and fight right on top the walls and fortifications.
- Freedom of actions. Variable modifiers consider the environment a unit is battling in and make the game tactically versatile.
- Two gameplay modes. The game now features a strategic map, where the player can travel around the world and interact with various characters; however the battles will be carried out in the well-known tactical mode.
- Network game. Apart from the storyline campaign the game features several diverse multiplayer modes. From 2 up to 6 gamers can participate in a battle at a dedicated Internet server. The results are stored in online Hall of Fame.
- State-of-the-art graphics. Graphics engine used in the game provide for the highest level of details. Historically correct armor and weaponry, realistic animation and battle scenes, which correspond to the specific period – Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades depicts the 13th century in great details.
What Steam players say
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Turn off Psuedo HDR to get the missing textures to show up on modern systems. Fun game, mount and blade meats total war4 found this helpful
Game is buggy and unplayable constant crashing2 found this helpful
Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades, developed by Unicorn Games Studio and published by Fulqrum Publishing, is an ambitious and uncompromising historical real-time strategy game that seeks to portray medieval warfare on a scale and with a level of complexity rarely attempted in the genre. Set during the 13th-century Northern Crusades, the game places players in command of the Teutonic Order as it wages campaigns against pagan Prussian tribes, blending grand strategy, RPG-style progression, and massive real-time battles into a single, demanding experience. From the outset, it is clear that this is not a streamlined or casual RTS, but a dense simulation aimed at players who value historical atmosphere, scale, and systemic depth over accessibility. The campaign structure is one of the game’s defining features. Rather than presenting a sequence of isolated missions, Real Warfare 2 unfolds across a persistent strategic map where armies move freely, interact with factions, undertake quests, and manage resources in real time. This layer borrows heavily from RPG and sandbox design philosophies, allowing players to decide where to travel, whom to fight, and how to grow their forces. The sens…1 found this helpful
[quote][b]Warning: Broken Game![/b] This game has design/implementation defects that will render this unplayable for many gamers. The game does not launch under Windows 11, and will crash Windows Explorer if you try.[/quote] This 16 year old game hasn't been patched or updated in 14 years, it's broken and unmaintained, but the developer, who knows it's broken, is still trying to charge money for it... at what point does deliberately unethical behaviour like this become a criminal attempt at fraud? Anyway, when this worked, it was basically Total War: Medieval from Temu... a clunky UI, even when it was maintained it was riddled with bugs and barely worked. Thematically the concept seems reasonable, but bandits don't actually field heavy armored cavalry on the field of battle. Unethically, the developers have left this on the Steam store in an unplayable and broken state. It's the responsibility of the developer to maintain their product, ensure it runs on all modern PCs, or if they determine there's defects and the game doesn't work, they should remove it from sale instead of misleadingly trying to scam gamers into buying knowingly defective products. This is harmful to Steam…
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