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Blades of the Righteous

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49%Game Brain Score
graphics, replayability
story, music
75% User Score Based on 16 reviews

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Blades of the Righteous is a single player tactical role playing game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by Vladimir Slav and was released on March 7, 2016. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Defend your kingdom against the dark forces! Micromanage your army, train soldiers and defeat the enemy in turn-based battles.

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75%
Audience ScoreBased on 16 reviews
graphics3 positive mentions
story3 negative mentions
  • The game offers surprisingly deep and fun turn-based hex-grid strategy gameplay with resource and time management elements.
  • It provides good replayability with various units, skill customization, and randomized events that make each playthrough different.
  • Despite simple graphics and animations, the game has a pleasant presentation and a cool battle theme, running well on modest hardware.
  • The UI is clumsy, unintuitive, and sometimes unresponsive with tooltip and fullscreen issues, causing a frustrating user experience.
  • Combat mechanics suffer from random unit placement, lack of clear unit order, and some unfair design elements making battles tedious and unbalanced.
  • There are bugs affecting specific units, and the progression can feel repetitive and artificially difficult due to resource and healing management.
  • story
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's story is minimal and feels unfinished, with a simplistic "good vs. bad" premise that lacks depth or engagement. Players find the narrative repetitive and uninspired, contributing to a shallow overall experience.

    • “One way to prolong the experience is to delve into side-missions - these are pretty straightforward and there is a repetitive element to them, but as the events of the game and spawning enemies are random, each mission plays out differently.”
    • “It certainly doesn't have an intuitive UI, nor a workable story other than: 'them bad guys, kill bad guys cause you good guys.' I only put around 20-30 minutes and had enough.”
    • “Anyhow, it was on sale for about 2 dollars, and if you see this on sale again for that much maybe pick it up, but it is clearly not finished... from the story to the UI, this looks like a class project at DigiPen or whatever.”
    • “So the game is like that: do one battle, spend 2 turns healing, do one event (resource, random quest, or treasure), then fight the group of monsters who just appeared, rinse and repeat.”
  • graphics
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics are generally simple and somewhat generic, with basic animations and models that still manage to be visually appealing. While the overall style is simplistic, certain unit models and battle themes stand out positively. However, fullscreen mode may require adjustments due to scaling issues.

    • “The battle theme is quite cool, and the graphical models for units are awesome.”
    • “The graphics - again, simplistic and nice.”
    • “This is a small, relatively simple (but still surprisingly deep) turn-based hex-grid strategy game with somewhat generic characters, simple graphics, and simple animations.”
    • “Also, fullscreen mode is a no-go until the graphics settings are tweaked for different screen sizes.”
  • music
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's music features one standout metal track and another less impressive piece that aligns well with the graphics, but overall, the soundtrack is quite limited.

    • “The in-game music consists of one really nice metal track and one less impressive track that suits the game's graphics better, and that's it for the music.”
    • “The game's soundtrack is limited, featuring only one standout metal track and another track that matches the visuals better, but overall the music selection is sparse.”
    • “Music in the game is minimal, with just one notable metal track and one other track that fits the graphics, resulting in a lackluster audio experience.”
  • gameplay
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay features a straightforward, turn-based mechanic divided between strategic resource management and kingdom/unit upgrades. However, some users feel the difficulty is artificially increased due to inconsistent rules applied to enemies versus the player.

    • “The game mechanics are pretty straightforward and turn-based. There are two separate parts to the game: the strategic part where you collect resources, which you spend on upgrades to your kingdom or recruiting and upgrading new units.”
    • “The difficulty is artificially boosted by really weird mechanics; you just don't play by the same rules as the enemies.”
  • replayability
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game offers solid replayability through managing up to 8-unit teams, encouraging multiple playthroughs with different team compositions and strategies. Players find it engaging enough to replay several times, especially to tackle higher difficulty levels.

    • “For me personally the game has a fair amount of replayability - after completing it twice I am still eager to start a new playthrough, try various team setups, develop units in a different way and maybe finally beat it on the hardest difficulty.”
    • “You can lead up to 8 units in your team, so it has some kind of replay value.”
  • grinding
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding is widely criticized for being boring and tedious, with many users finding the battles during this process unfair and frustrating.

    • “It's boring and tedious, especially with how unfair the battles are.”
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Blades of the Righteous is a tactical role playing game with fantasy theme.

Blades of the Righteous is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 42 hours playing Blades of the Righteous.

Blades of the Righteous was released on March 7, 2016.

Blades of the Righteous was developed by Vladimir Slav.

Blades of the Righteous has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its graphics but disliked it for its story.

Blades of the Righteous is a single player game.

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