Battle Brothers: Beasts & Exploration DLC Announced

If you’re not familiar with Overhype Studios’ Battle Brothers, it’s a strategy RPG where you traverse an open world as a mercenary company, dealing with all sorts of bandits and Orcs, while struggling to stay afloat financially. Last week, the developers teased a big announcement coming our way, and now that it’s here, we know that the game will soon get its first piece of major DLC – Beasts & Exploration.

The DLC will introduce plenty of new beast-like enemies, make the game’s world bigger and fill it with more mysteries, and add plenty of content, from new contracts to new weapons and armor. It will also be accompanied by a free base game update. Here’s the announcement itself:

We’re very excited to announce that we’re working on a full-sized DLC for Battle Brothers. Yes, you heard that right – there’s going to be a real and meaty expansion with fresh content coming for that game that you like. The name of the upcoming DLC is going to be ‘Beasts & Exploration’.

That’s a pretty telling name, and as it suggests, the focus of the DLC will be on introducing new beast opponents in order to bring more variety to every stage of the game, and to make exploring the world more interesting and rewarding. But that’s not all!

Here’s the list of major features you can expect:

• A variety of challenging new beasts populating different parts of the wilds. Each with unique mechanics and loot.
• A bigger world to explore, full of unique hidden locations throughout that offer new possibilities and rewards to the daring adventurer.
• Trophies from slain beasts that can be crafted into charms, potions and other items to customize the look of your hardened mercenaries and benefit them in combat.
• New contracts that have you engage in profitable beast hunting, exploration and more.
• New weapons, tools, shields, and armor to equip your men with.
• New paint items that can be used to paint shields and helmets in the colors of your company.
• Lots of new events.
• New music tracks.

In addition to these major features, the DLC will also include countless smaller additions. Just like in the past, all the major points and most of the minor ones will be explained in detail in future dev blogs as we go along, so you’ll always know what we’re working on and why. We expect to be working on this for several months and will announce a release date and final feature list once we’re closer to the finish line. We’re also making good progress on our new game, and will continue to work on it in parallel.

Alongside the DLC, which will not be free, the game will also receive a sizable free update. This update will contain a whole bunch of improvements and balancing changes, as well as some minor content additions.

Join us next week for our first dev blog on the new DLC, introducing a terrifying new opponent!