Band of Crusaders || „The Witcher“ if You Removed All the Witchers
CARRY THE FLAME: Band of Crusaders Marches to Glory in a Witcher-esque Medieval Europe
„Rise & Give Aid to Lords & Peasants Alike in a Medieval Europe Plagued by Devils and Twisted Cultists.
Virtual Alchemy, a newly minted indie studio based in Warsaw, just revealed their debut title: Band of Crusaders, a Witcher-esque strategy RPG with real-time combat set in a corrupted version of medieval Europe. The Continent has fallen! 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 is about a company of warriors you will raise from peasants to heroes against the forces of chaos. The Knights Templar are gone, and Archdemons are at the door, threatening the already fragile peace that European smallfolk have come to cherish,” says studio CEO Dominik Sypnicki.
“Our artistic approach to Band of Crusaders merges historically authentic representations of medieval tools, armor, and weaponry, with demonic creatures inspired by biblical descriptions and European folklore,” shares Art Director Kamil Mickiewicz. “We wanted to see what the world of The Witcher would look like if you removed all the Witchers.”
“We wanted to see what the world of The Witcher would look like if you removed all the Witchers.”“
