Heads Will Roll: Reforged (v2.99e & ALL DLC)

Medieval warfare feels less like heroic pageantry and more like a brutal struggle to see tomorrow in Heads Will Roll: Reforged. Set against the Hundred Years’ War, the RPG casts you as an unimportant foot soldier caught between English and French ambitions, where a bad decision can end a promising career before it begins. Survival sits at the heart of the experience: fame, wealth, and knighthood remain possible, but they are earned through caution, luck, and an ability to endure injury, hunger, and hostile people. The tone is grim, grounded, and deliberately unforgiving rather than romanticized.

Turn-based battles demand more than simply selecting the strongest attack. Weapon reach, combat training, fatigue, wounds, armor, character attributes, and the condition of your equipment all influence each exchange, making a spear, sword, crossbow, or improvised tactic useful in different circumstances. Between fights, you manage a large collection of gear, medicines, poisons, supplies, and components, deciding what to equip, save, sell, or turn into useful crafted items such as remedies and crossbow ammunition. Conversations and choices also carry weight, as NPCs remember your conduct and may offer opportunities, shut doors, or trigger events based on the reputation you build. Progress comes from surviving campaigns, improving your capabilities, acquiring better equipment, and shaping a soldier into someone capable of standing among knights.

Its strongest feature is the way intertwined systems make each run feel precarious and personal. Randomized starting conditions, encounters, enemies, loot, and event outcomes mean that knowledge helps, but never entirely removes risk; a reliable plan in one campaign may fail in the next. The extensive equipment pool encourages experimentation, while injuries and resource scarcity give every item a practical value beyond raw damage numbers. Players who enjoy the punishing tactical decisions of Darkest Dungeon, the grounded role-playing of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, or survival-heavy roguelite runs should find plenty to appreciate here. Newcomers need patience with its dense mechanics, while veteran strategy fans get a medieval RPG where preparation matters as much as courage.