Bellwright PS5 review – build your own medieval community

Bellwright – it’s just a flesh wound, etc. (Snail Games)

Kingdom Come: Deliverance may have cornered the market on historical role-players but this new indie game takes a more strategic approach to a similar concept.

While there are countless games based on Tolkien’s vision of the Middle Ages, blending people living in primitive conditions with magic, fantastical beasts, and mythical evils, there’s another breed of role-playing game that ignores fantasy in favour of a more realistic and nuanced simulation. Kingdom Come: Deliverance is the most obvious example of that brand of historically authentic first person role-playing.

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