Brigandine The Legend of Runersia
The continent of Runersia is home to six major powers with more than 40 bases, 100 knights, and 50 types of monsters. Select a ruler, organize knights and monsters into troops, and conquer enemy bases! How you wish to do battle is entire up to you, so devise the best strategies and lead your nation toward continental conquest! How will your legend unfold?
Time passes on Runersia in seasons. Each season consists of an Organization Phase and Attack Phase. During the Organization Phase, knights and monsters of various classes and skills are organized into troops in preparation for upcoming battles. During the Attack Phase, turn-based troop battles take place on a map made up of hexagonal spaces. Make use of unit skills, elements, enclosure effects, terrain advantages, and other battle tactics to lead your side to victory! All nations, knights, and monsters in the game will continue to battle and grow as you do. The game is also packed with other ways to grow your armies such as classes, equipment, and various items.
Runersia – a continent blessed with mana showers from times of old. Five Mana Stones discovered long ago have been embedded into special armor called Brigandines, each one representing the ideology of the nation possessing it. These have come to be known as the Brigandine of Justice, Sanctity, Freedom, Glory, and Ego. The time now is Runersia 781, and a war looms on the horizon for five nations and a small tribe with incompatible ideologies. Six rulers and their rune knights will throw themselves into the conflict, each with their own hopes and expectations. Once the land has been unified under a single banner, memories from The Legend of Runersia will be reclaimed and the truth of what happened here on Runersia shall be revealed.
Enemy nations aim to conquer the continent as well and will attack your bases to do so. The battle for the continent will differ with each playthrough.Accumulate stories and events from the six nations in the Records. After clearing the main mode, The Legend of Runersia, the Alternate Chapter challenge mode will be unlocked, allowing for even more replayability.
Main ModeChoose one of the six powers and reclaim the pages of "The Legend of Runersia" as you aim to unify the land.
Challenge ModeChoose ten epic heroes, one ruler and nine knights, and charge headfirst into chaos. Aim for total conquest.
Creative ModeAssemble an army of knights and monsters that have accompanied you on past campaigns. Plan and execute creative strategies for epic battles.
New Features
- Addition of Creative Mode
- Items to be Carried Over
- Customize Graphics Performance
- Optimized for Keyboard & Mouse
- Battle Map HP Display
Game Discussion
Steam User 4
Legend of Runersia isn’t a bad game, in fact, it’s a solid follow-up in terms of mechanics and polish. But where it falls short is in its soul: the characters.
Compared to The Legend of Forsena, the characters in Runersia feel like a downgrade. They’re bland, lacking the charisma and unique presence that made Forsena’s cast memorable. In Forsena, each leader stood out, and their personalities shined through in both story and design. Runersia's characters, by contrast, are quite lacking.
The music also took a turn that doesn’t quite hit the same mark. Forsena’s soundtrack had a more “militaristic” tone—it captured the tension of war, the drive for conquest, and the urgency of uniting a fractured continent through power. It felt like you were in the middle of a grand campaign. Runersia’s music, on the other hand, leans more into a mystical and oddly cheerful tone. It doesn’t match the gravity of a war for continental domination. It almost feels like the stakes are lower.
Runersia improves on the systems, but Forsena captured the atmosphere and emotional weight of WAR better.
Steam User 10
This is a really good and faithful sequel. I watched my monsters make a name for themselves and grow into legends. It got me invested and sucked me in just like Legend of Forsena did when I was young. I had my doubts going in that they, we, could capture that feeling again. I'm happy to say the more I played the more I felt like I had jumped into a time machine. Thank you for bringing the magic back for me one more time.
Steam User 9
For a few bucks, this game is super amazing. I must say though, it's quite... outdated. The graphics are... let's just say, I've seen mobile games have better graphics than this, but not including the artwork though because oh my god, every piece I've seen looks to be MASTERPIECE, the art department went far and beyond on these artwork, I just WISHED that the in-game models reflect the beauty of their art.
As for the game itself, the objective is made clear, and that is to conquer all nodes on the map, but I wish we could do more with the RPG aspect to it. Monsters evolution are often just a reskin version, most battles play out almost the exact same way because you can only bring so many monsters and you can only fight so many as well. I would love to have an absolutely massive armies marching towards another knight's capital. Would've been super awesome I tell you.
The story is forgettable, but I was intrigued by the world and and the mysTHICC of it. Some interaction between characters are also well done, and the voice acting is superb.
Easily, I'll give the game an 8/10, it is a great game. I highly recommend purchasing whenever you see it on discount, it's a bit old.
It took me about 18-20 hours to beat the game on normal. Though, I was trying out doing Quest and such, but eventually I figured I can do without.
I would love to see a sequel with a more modern graphics, especially on those monster models. Expanding on that RPG element would be awesome, I'd like to have more monster training, evolutions, and just growing your knights and monsters in a more meaningful way.
Steam User 7
This game would be so much better if the forces in the tactical combat parts started closer to each other. That first three turns of moving troops is a chore.
Steam User 3
I always like Brigandine. Too bad this game is too easy. AOE magic and dragons are the only things that you need to win
Steam User 4
A pretty good SRPG that scratches a specific kind of itch. Good character art, interesting gameplay mechanics with permadeath for SOME units but not all. Decent replayability with six different factions that have their own little self contained stories. You can customize the difficulty as well. After you beat the main campaign there is a challenge mode and a campaign editor, but the only thing you can adjust is the starting locations of the factions and what officers/knights they begin with.
Steam User 5
"Just one more turn." I haven't felt this in a long long time.
The game seems complicated at first, but it's easy to get into and not that difficult to get good at. The portraits are gorgeous, if you can excuse the woman design of the past, such as boob armors, boob windows and sparsely clothed warriors.