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Battle Realms: Zen Edition cover art

Battle Realms: Zen Edition

Ed Del Castillo · 2025-01-27

Steam

ActionStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 07, 2001 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Return of the Classic, now remastered! Battle Realms is a fantasy RTS inspired by the stories told in martial- arts movies and oriental mythology. Develop your peasants into a highly trained and deadly efficient clan of warriors who are ready to die with your name on their lips.

Battle Realms: Zen Edition is an Action and Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 4406 reviews).

342
playing now
89%
positive of 4.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
77/100
IGDB user rating (34 ratings)
10
Nexus mods (6.6k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

342 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Battle Realms is a real-time strategy video game published and released by Crave Entertainment and Ubi Soft in November 2001. It was the first game created by Liquid Entertainment. An expansion pack Battle Realms: Winter of the Wolf was released in November 2002. In 2012, the game was re-released on GOG.com. In 2019, the game was re-released on Steam as Battle Realms: Zen Edition, in its early access state with functioning online multiplayer.

Trailer

Battle Realms: Zen Edition trailer thumbnail

Battle Realms: Zen Edition (2019) - Steam Early Access Launch Teaser

≈403,518 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 342 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 306 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~38/week).
  • · Review velocity down 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 7% of 27,751 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 89k–200k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,447 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2019-12-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 0 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
39239220192026Week of 2019-12-01: 392 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

448992026-09-15 13:00 — 414 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 108 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 263 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 406 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 147 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 184 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 309 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 193 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 209 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 394 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 269 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 146 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 279 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 369 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 131 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 273 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 353 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 100 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 229 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 448 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 119 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 260 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 342 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
29059Dec 2019Aug 2026Dec 2019 — avg 167 · peak 668Mar 2020 — avg 75 · peak 166Jun 2020 — avg 64 · peak 133Sep 2020 — avg 70 · peak 148Dec 2020 — avg 69 · peak 134Mar 2021 — avg 94 · peak 194Jun 2021 — avg 89 · peak 185Sep 2021 — avg 98 · peak 204Dec 2021 — avg 74 · peak 154Mar 2022 — avg 88 · peak 184Jun 2022 — avg 87 · peak 183Sep 2022 — avg 94 · peak 196Dec 2022 — avg 202 · peak 699Mar 2023 — avg 187 · peak 389Jun 2023 — avg 155 · peak 307Sep 2023 — avg 160 · peak 318Dec 2023 — avg 175 · peak 324Mar 2024 — avg 182 · peak 334Jun 2024 — avg 218 · peak 423Sep 2024 — avg 203 · peak 388Dec 2024 — avg 181 · peak 337Mar 2025 — avg 165 · peak 343Jun 2025 — avg 169 · peak 314Sep 2025 — avg 217 · peak 453Dec 2025 — avg 169 · peak 318Mar 2026 — avg 185 · peak 333Jun 2026 — avg 205 · peak 411Aug 2026 — avg 264 · peak 599
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
662026-09-232026-10-142026-09-23: 3 new positive2026-09-25: 3 new positive2026-09-30: 4 new positive2026-10-01: 4 new positive2026-10-01: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 2 new positive2026-10-05: 3 new positive2026-10-05: 2 new negative2026-10-06: 4 new positive2026-10-07: 1 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new positive2026-10-12: 6 new positive2026-10-13: 1 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$9.992019-12-032026-07-092019-12-03 — best price $9.992025-01-27 — best price $14.992025-12-18 — best price $13.492026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-03-19 — best price $13.492026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $13.492026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

167362026-05-30 — 57 pageviews2026-06-03 — 55 pageviews2026-06-07 — 48 pageviews2026-06-11 — 54 pageviews2026-06-15 — 36 pageviews2026-06-19 — 48 pageviews2026-06-23 — 94 pageviews2026-06-27 — 108 pageviews2026-07-01 — 59 pageviews2026-07-05 — 52 pageviews2026-07-09 — 63 pageviews2026-07-13 — 68 pageviews2026-07-17 — 76 pageviews2026-07-21 — 63 pageviews2026-07-25 — 71 pageviews2026-07-29 — 58 pageviews2026-08-02 — 56 pageviews2026-08-06 — 60 pageviews2026-08-10 — 121 pageviews2026-08-14 — 85 pageviews2026-08-18 — 96 pageviews2026-08-22 — 71 pageviews2026-08-26 — 110 pageviews2026-08-30 — 95 pageviews2026-09-03 — 53 pageviews2026-09-07 — 61 pageviews2026-09-11 — 57 pageviews2026-09-15 — 82 pageviews2026-09-19 — 81 pageviews2026-09-23 — 68 pageviews2026-09-27 — 73 pageviews2026-10-01 — 54 pageviews2026-10-05 — 58 pageviews2026-10-08 — 54 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

902026-10-01 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 22:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-03 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 20:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-08 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 17:35 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-15 00:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
6.3%
earned "Mmm, Rice."
0.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudIncludes level editor

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)681%90

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RTSActionClassicFantasyStrategyFast-PacedMultiplayerEarly AccessSingleplayerBase-Building

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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