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Brigandine The Legend of Runersia

Happinet · 2022-05-10

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Strategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 10, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 25, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Dec 10, 2020 (PlayStation 4)

The continent of Runersia is home to six major powers with more than 40 bases, 100 knights, and 50 types of monsters. Select a ruler, organize knights and monsters into troops, and conquer enemy bases!

135
playing now
85%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
60h
to beat · rushed 40h · completionist 87h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

135 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia is a turn-based strategy game developed by Matrix Software and published by Happinet. It is a sequel to the 1998 PlayStation game Brigandine: The Legend of Forsena, and features the same core gameplay with a new setting. The player chooses one of six nations of the continent of Runersia and must guide it to conquer the others and unify the land using powerful Rune Knights and their summoned monsters. The game was released worldwide for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in 2020, and for Windows in May 2022.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 135 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 176 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity up 69% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 5,889 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 28k–62k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,384 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.99 at Steam (2026-02-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 10 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
33533520222026Week of 2022-05-01: 335 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

172392026-08-11 19:00 — 39 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 58 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 51 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 59 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 60 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 52 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 93 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 112 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 59 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 81 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 54 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 47 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 100 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 53 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 39 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 106 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 108 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 60 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 135 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 69 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 65 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 115 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 77 players2026-08-26 21:00 — 52 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 134 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 70 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 54 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 172 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 135 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$7.992022-05-112026-08-112022-05-11 — best price $33.992022-06-24 — best price $31.992022-08-05 — best price $31.992022-09-16 — best price $31.992022-11-04 — best price $31.992022-11-22 — best price $27.992022-12-22 — best price $23.992023-03-16 — best price $23.992023-05-20 — best price $23.992023-06-29 — best price $19.992023-08-28 — best price $19.992023-10-10 — best price $19.992023-11-21 — best price $19.992023-12-02 — best price $19.992024-03-14 — best price $19.992024-05-25 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $19.992024-08-13 — best price $19.992024-09-26 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $19.992025-02-11 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $19.992025-04-28 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $19.992025-08-07 — best price $19.992025-09-18 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $39.992025-12-06 — best price $39.992026-01-05 — best price $39.992026-02-26 — best price $39.992026-03-26 — best price $39.992026-04-04 — best price $39.992026-05-26 — best price $39.992026-07-09 — best price $39.992026-08-11 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

411452026-06-01 — 75 pageviews2026-06-04 — 69 pageviews2026-06-07 — 70 pageviews2026-06-10 — 79 pageviews2026-06-13 — 66 pageviews2026-06-16 — 82 pageviews2026-06-19 — 60 pageviews2026-06-22 — 50 pageviews2026-06-25 — 55 pageviews2026-06-28 — 73 pageviews2026-07-01 — 111 pageviews2026-07-04 — 109 pageviews2026-07-07 — 61 pageviews2026-07-10 — 116 pageviews2026-07-13 — 98 pageviews2026-07-16 — 57 pageviews2026-07-19 — 134 pageviews2026-07-22 — 112 pageviews2026-07-25 — 72 pageviews2026-07-28 — 54 pageviews2026-07-31 — 103 pageviews2026-08-03 — 54 pageviews2026-08-06 — 91 pageviews2026-08-09 — 74 pageviews2026-08-12 — 88 pageviews2026-08-15 — 115 pageviews2026-08-18 — 104 pageviews2026-08-21 — 183 pageviews2026-08-24 — 200 pageviews2026-08-27 — 411 pageviews2026-08-29 — 187 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-26 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
66.1%
earned "The Flames of War"
17.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsGamepad RecommendedSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)55018%35
Steam (Steam)4912%35
PS4 (PlayStation)4219%35
Switch (Nintendo)370%0
Switch (Nintendo)70%0
Switch (Nintendo)50%0
Switch (Nintendo)10%0

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

Player tags

3DMagicDragonsFantasyHex GridMedievalStrategyTop-DownSimulationAtmospheric

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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