The Continent has fallen! In medieval Europe, sins give rise to demonic amalgamations. Heresy and fear slowly consume the entire realm

Rise as the Grandmaster of a knightly order—recruit your crusaders, develop your camp, engage in brutal battles, and manage your unit's mental and material needs as they travel the countryside to repel the forces of pandemonium.

Band Of Crusaders offers deep tactical combat between your party of medieval warriors and demons pulled straight from hell’s mythologies. The gameplay provides emergent storytelling that foregrounds player agency, while a breadth of weapons and skill progression place knights, spearmen, archers, shield wardens, and artificers in your hands as the crusaders’ Grandmaster. Defeat bandits, eldritch cults, and the shambling devils they’ve summoned to our shores as chaos takes the duchies and principalities of historically authentic 1350’s A.D. medieval Europe.

Band Of Crusaders immerses you in a dark medieval fantasy where your leadership determines the fate of Europe. Gather your Brothers, strengthen your camp, and confront the Archdemons in fierce battles to reclaim the land from darkness.

Developer Virtual Alchemy confirmed its debut title, Band of Crusaders, will launch to Steam in 2025.

The above new footage unveils a fresh look at the Witcher-esque real-time strategy RPG, highlighting the dynamic tactical combat system and moody fantasy setting.

NCSOFT has acquired global publishing rights for Virtual Alchemy’s ‘Band of Crusaders’, further expanding its reach into Eastern Europe, an emerging hub for the global gaming industry.

NCSOFT’s co-CEO Byungmoo Park stated, “NCSOFT is making strategic investments both home and abroad to drive growth by expanding into new regions, genres, and platforms.” He added, “Our goal is to enrich our global pipeline with fresh IPs and bring high-quality gaming experiences to players worldwide.”

Key Features:

• Real-time Tactical Combat: Experience a dynamic, tactical combat system enhanced by slow-motion mechanics. Victory hinges on character synergies, smart use of abilities, and unit positioning. The consequences of combat are significant, as every hit could lead to the permanent death of a crusader. Engagements will pull you into deep, stat-driven, party-based combat with a variety of maps offering different tactical opportunities.
• Camp Management: Manage and develop a roster of up to 20 crusader knights while navigating scarce resources in a ravaged landscape. Develop your camp to support recruitment, healing, repairs, training, and more. Each crusader brings novelty to your camp with their own backgrounds, strengths and weaknesses as well as the ability to synergize with their Brothers. The upgradable buildings offer intricate interactions that are designed to foster experimentation and strategic campaign progression.
• Character Customization: Progress your crusaders through attributes and abilities with skill trees encouraging versatile multi-role builds. Select equipment to support your combat strategy and improve upon it throughout your campaign. Without fixed character classes, abilities are universal and connect directly with crusaders’ weapons. Players can utilize a mix of active, passive, and semi-active abilities to craft their own playstyle.
• Dynamic Map Progression: The world changes over time, driven by a wide range of emergent player and NPC interactions. Your progress is influenced by a simulated invasion of demonic forces, triggering reactions from human factions. This relentless onslaught culminates in epic boss battles where the player has the power to emerge victorious; a savior of humanity. On this path, your gameplay will be influenced by world conditions, such as the saturation of demonic forces, changing seasons, and a day-night cycle.
• Crusade Against Abominations: You will have to face not only human enemies but also demonic creatures inspired by biblical descriptions and European folklore. Each of the enemy families has its strengths and weaknesses, encouraging the player to strategize and adjust their combat tactics.

Band Of Crusaders is coming to PC (Steam) in 2025.