Warlord: Britannia
Darkmatter Games · 2022 · Open World, Strategy, Base Building, Rome, Historical
PC
Very Positive88% · 1,865
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About Warlord: Britannia
✦ AI summary
Command a Roman Legion across a massive open world of ancient Britain, leading hundreds of troops in real-time battles while building camps and managing conquered settlements—all from an immersive first-person perspective that lets you fight alongside your soldiers. This solo-developed strategy game stands out by blending large-scale tactical warfare with direct participation in combat, set across a seamlessly explorable 45-square-kilometer island crafted with meticulous historical authenticity.
Warlord: Britannia is the first entry in a new series of immersive strategy games created by solo developer Darkmatter Games. Step into the shoes of a Roman General given direct command of a Legion with orders from the Emperor to conquer an entire island.
Immersive-Strategy
A unique combination of first-person strategy elements places Warlord: Britannia in a genre of its own. Immersive strategy fixes the player in the first-person perspective of their character. Lead a large army, construct bases, conquer settlements, and disrupt enemy forces in the open world—entirely from this immersive strategy perspective. Turn the tide of battle by participating directly in the action, fighting alongside your own troops in real time.
Dynamic Open World
The world of Warlord: Britannia is an island more than 45 square kilometers in size, divided by latitude into three visually distinct geographic zones. Start your occupation in the densely forested Lowlands, then march north to the rolling hills and farms of the Midlands. Finally, push further north into the imposing and desolate Highlands. All three zones flow seamlessly together, never subjecting you to a loading screen.
Travel the roads cautiously and keep your eyes on the treelines, as trading convoys and roaming warbands criss-cross the open world in real time. The local population will quickly spread word of your exploits, so choose your actions carefully. Manage the population’s unrest levels and prepare for uprisings and raids on your camp. Enemies will react aggressively to repeated attacks and transgressions by your Roman invasion force.
Massive Battles
Recruit up to 15 Roman Centuries and their officers to fully staff your Legion. Hundreds of Romans and Britons will clash and die on the battlefield. Use your legionaries to attack local strongholds and towns, pillage and loot settlements, impose draconian taxes, and send the population back to Rome in chains.
Base Building
Construct a series of marching camps as you conquer the open world. Clear the forests and put up palisade walls. Set guards to patrol the perimeter, keeping watch over the camp at night. At any time, you may pack up and relocate your camp, allowing for complex strategic maneuvers. Decide where and when to set up your fort, and how long to stay before conditions become too dangerous.
Roman History
All of the weapons, armors, structures, names, and gameplay elements are inspired directly from extant literary and material archeological remains. Solo developer Darkmatter Games has painstakingly recreated these elements from scratch and by hand to bring to life the ancient world of Britain in the first century AD like never before. Historical authenticity is the core element of the Warlord franchise.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Everything about this game is clunky and unpolished. Looks like a potato too. I requested a refund as this game isnt for me, but I can see how it might appeal to Roman die-hards. Def not worth $20 for anyone IMO though, pick it up on sale for $5 if it looks interesting to you.
[h1] My Experience [/h1] In Warlord: Britannia, you command a Roman Legion during an invasion of, well, Britannia. The game is actually fairly simple and straightforward but is still an odd mix of genres and elements. There's some tactics and strategy involved, some army management, some basebuilding, and some first person action. It's something I still kind of struggle to boil down. Ultimately the best thing I came up with is that WL:B is pretty much "Baby Mount & Blade" in the same way I'd call Ravenfield "Baby Arma 3." No insult intended, I believe the simplicity of the game is actually a strong point. Right from the start, you can tell visuals and sounds are not really this game's strong suit. The models are simple rectangles with balls for heads. They look like if you took the pawns from Prison Architect or Rimworld and turned them into 3D. Conquering settlements is a simple matter of eliminating all defending enemies. Once that is done a pop-up window appears with several options. You can loot or enslave -in degrees- the settlement which will rile up the population but earn you a good amount of money and resources in the short term. You can also choose to tax/extract inst…
It's fun.
Took me about two hours to figure out the controls but then it is defo worth the learning process.
Absolute amaxing game just I have a few suggestions for the dev, 1. lwk pls fix the lag of having all the units in one place and the lag in general, 2. u should lwk add an expansion through dlc and keep the updates coming
The tutorial tells you nothing just have to guess good luck
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