Strong, varied story campaigns
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“without the DLC you get 8 campaigns each composed of 5 missions which is pretty generous considering other RTS games”
Steam review · 32.8 h played ↗
Ancestors Legacy
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 80%Very Positive · 80%Destructive Creations2018RTS · Strategy · Action
$34.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A squad-based medieval RTS in a Company of Heroes style, with strong campaigns, music and brutal animations. Skip it if you want deep strategy or active multiplayer.
Great for
Solo campaign players who like historical settings, Company of Heroes-style squad tactics and cinematic battles
Main risk
Gameplay turns repetitive and shallow: 10-squad cap, units locked in combat, and dead multiplayer
What players love
Easy to learn, Company of Heroes feel
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Plays like medieval Company of Heroes.”
Steam review · 36.3 h played ↗
Tactical squad combat: flanking, ambushes, terrain
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“I especially like that positioning, flanking and terrain actually matter instead of just throwing huge armies at the enemy.”
Steam review · 21.2 h played ↗
Visceral cinematic combat and animations
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“you can actually follow your units into battle and watch everything play out, including all the different kill animations”
Steam review · 30 h played ↗
Great soundtrack and atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“The best part of this game for me is the soundtrack, it's make my blood boil and enjoy play this medieval RTS.”
Steam review · 22.8 h played ↗
Good value, especially on sale
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“For 22 zł (around 6 USD), I squeezed out 33 hours of playtime, which is a solid price-to-time spent ratio.”
Steam review · 33.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Repetitive, shallow gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews
“nice animations and great setting but gameplay is super boring. ctrl a, attack, retreat, heal, walk 3 minutes, attack, retreat, heal”
Steam review · 4.7 h played ↗
Units locked in melee, poor control
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“if you have 3 spear squads in front of you and a hero comes from behind you must destroy the spear squads before you can redirect to the hero.”
Steam review · 14.9 h played ↗
Small 10-squad cap and few units
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“The army cap is 10 squads, and the scale just feels too small to really feel fun to me personally.”
Steam review · 5.8 h played ↗
AI cheats and campaign difficulty spikes
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“AI that cheats, even on normal/easy. No matter what, the game will just spawn what it wants when it wants”
Steam review · 13.6 h played ↗
Slow, tedious missions and stealth sections
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“only to find myself guiding a handful of units through some stealth puzzle missions over and over and over”
Steam review · 4.7 h played ↗
Dead multiplayer
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“Online is dead, we couldn't even connect to play 1v1 with a friend.”
Steam review · translated · 0.7 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: UnsupportedController support24 GB
Minimum
OSWindows® 7 (Service Pack 1) , Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 - (64-bit only).
Processor2.6 GHz Intel® Core™ i5-750 or 3.2 GHz AMD Phenom™ II X4 955
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1 GB VRAM)
Storage24 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows® 7 (Service Pack 1) / Windows® 8 / Windows® 8.1 / Windows® 10 / (64-bit only)
ProcessorAMD Octa-Core / Intel Quad-Core processor running at 3.4 GHz (AMD FX X8 8350 or Intel Core i5 3570 or newer architectures are recommended)
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsAMD/NVIDIA dedicated with at least 2048MB of dedicated VRAM and with at least DirectX 11 and Shader Model 5.0 support. AMD Radeon R9 285 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 and above are recommended graphic cards.
Storage24 GB available space
OSWindows® 7 (Service Pack 1) , Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 - (64-bit only).
Processor2.6 GHz Intel® Core™ i5-750 or 3.2 GHz AMD Phenom™ II X4 955
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1 GB VRAM)
Storage24 GB available space
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