Wartales
Wartales recently came out of Early Access, and it's very, very good.
If you've played Battle Brothers, you understand the framework. You have a mercenary company that explores the map and goes on various missions. As in most games of this type, the combat system is important, and this system is chunky—it's interesting, and it's particularly fun to replay combat encounters (by loading the autosave) and optimize your strategy.
Battle Brothers is notoriously unfair, but I never get that feeling in Wartales. It never feels punitive, and I've never felt like the RNG is screwing me.
Most importantly, the basically gameplay loop is happily addictive. Tooling around the map, taking on missions and random combat encounters, upgrading your weapons, armor, and skills, is fantastically satisfying. Nothing feels totally new here, but it's packaged so well.
Graphically, it's beautiful, with little environmental details like flying birds that really stand out. The bird calls are beautiful, too, and they change from region to region.
It was in Early Access for quite a while, and it shows, with a high degree of polish.
Here's the Steam link: Wartales.
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