Urtuk: The Desolation

Urtuk is an open world, tactical turn-based RPG in a low-fantasy setting. Guide your band of adventurers through the ruins of an ancient world. Recruit new followers, loot the corpses of your fallen foes, and do your best to survive in this harsh and unforgiving realm.

Urtuk: The Desolation is a turn-based tactics, hex grid and wargame game developed and published by David Kaleta.
Released on February 27th 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, Russian, Polish, French, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 2,315 reviews of which 2,051 were positive and 264 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 11.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Urtuk: The Desolation into these genres:

Turn-Based Tactics Hex Grid Wargame Dark Tactical RPG Difficult Procedural Generation Post-apocalyptic Singleplayer Dark Fantasy Turn-Based Combat Strategy Tactical Replay Value Perma Death Turn-Based Strategy Turn-Based 2D Fantasy Strategy RPG

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
Processor: 2.0 Ghz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB
Storage: 600 MB available space
Additional Notes: Note 1. Older Intel Integrated graphics (3000 and older) running in Windows 10 won't run this game. Windows 7 works however. Note 2: If you experience a crash during game start up, you might have outdated graphics drivers. Try set the game's "urtuk.exe" file compatibility mode to Win8.

MacOS

OS: OSX 10.15
Processor: 1.2 Ghz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB
Storage: 600 MB available space

Linux

OS: Fedora 25, Ubuntu 16.04, SteamOS, Mint 18
Processor: 1.2 Ghz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB
Storage: 600 MB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Oct. 2024

Initially it is frustrating when characters keep getting injured and require limited medicine to treat. After dropping to the easiest difficulty and understanding the mutator mechanics, and selecting some tank classes, the game starts to get fun and addictive. Now I can win on normal difficulty and probably also on hard.

Oct. 2024

It's like Battle Brothers, but a lot more METAL, and a lot less frustrating if you've ever played Battle Brothers and raged because you had a good run ruined by some absolute BS RNG, then this is the game for you

Oct. 2024

4 hours into it and it feels great but interface and menus are a bit unfriendly to users. It's obvious there's a lot of effort behind the game and I'm enjoying it a lot. I like how many things can change your decisions in battle (type of terrain, elevation, a good bunch of statuses, etc.) just like this type of games should be. Kudos on this. On the other hand, I've struggled trying to click on little icons under the characters during battle so I had to click at the same icons on the bottom. Also, there is some cases where, for example, an unit is on a place where their surroundings are higher and there is other units around. When this happen, is a bit difficult to select that unit either for attack or just to check stats and info. However, I'll keep playing it.

Aug. 2024

Well... not a bad game for sure. It probably had an eye on Darkest Dungeon during its development, which is not bad. However, there are a few things that really make the game less enjoyable that it should be. First of all, the gory bloody aspect, which doesn't bring any value in such a game. Second, the map does not rotate, and is extremely difficult to read sometime. So you end up sending your troops on one side of the map, before realizing that the terrain is blocked. Bummer! Third, you cannot see your characters' equipment and characteristics during a fight, but is clearly annoying and I cannot see a good reason for preventing this. Last, for some reason, the difficulty is really not linear. The third level, The Ruins, is much more difficult and unforgiving than the previous ones. Bottom line, if you can cope with the above, that's fine, but just keep in mind the (lack of) readability of the map! Enjoy Urtuk!

Aug. 2024

Positioning actually matters! It actually feels like you have to use tactics! Call me crazy but I actually prefer this over battle brothers.

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11.79€

8.5

2,051

264

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Developer

David Kaleta

Publisher

David Kaleta

Release 27 Feb 2021

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