Fit check
Is The Qaedon Wars - The Story Begins worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy-RPG players who want a long single-player campaign
- Turn-based tactics fans who enjoy managing units between battles
- Fantasy players who want character customization, spellbooks, and army equipment
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking short battles, since encounters can last from 30 minutes to more than 2 hours
- Players who prefer forgiving campaigns, since hero death ends the game and unit deaths can be permanent
- Players looking for real-time strategy rather than turn-based army management
- Players seeking multiplayer rather than a single-player campaign
Our take on The Qaedon Wars - The Story Begins
The defining constraint is irreversible loss: the hero's death ends the campaign, while fallen units require a paid Resurrection to return.
What is The Qaedon Wars - The Story Begins?
The Story Begins is a single-player strategy RPG set after the Great Cataclysm, with a hero beginning at Level 1.
Its campaign lets players choose which objectives to tackle, while battles use hex grids outdoors and square grids underground. Mission types include attack, defend, rescue, capture, and escort. The hero must survive because the campaign ends if they die. Between battles, units can gain skills, receive cures, buy equipment, and gain combat experience.
Army members can be customized with attributes, inventories of up to 23 slots, and single or combined classes. Clerics and Mages build spellbooks from Arcane and Divine schools. Random objectives and enemies vary scenarios, while permanent unit death remains unless Resurrection is purchased. Story Mode is listed as providing 50+ hours of gameplay.
How The Qaedon Wars - The Story Begins plays
- 01Grid-based battles
- Outdoor encounters use hex grids, while underground fights take place on square grids.
- 02Campaign objectives
- Missions include attacking, defending, rescuing, capturing, and escorting.
- 03Army progression
- Units gain combat experience, improve skills, and can use single or multiclass roles.
- 04Unit equipment
- Each unit can carry up to 23 inventory items, including equipment acquired between battles.
- 05Spell schools
- Clerics and Mages prepare spellbooks from Arcane and Divine schools.
- 06Permanent casualties
- Fallen units remain dead unless the army can pay for Resurrection.
- 07Variable scenarios
- Randomized objectives and enemy groups create different conditions across battle scenarios.
The Qaedon Wars - The Story Begins compared to similar games
Shogun Showdown uses turn-based combat built around positioning, attack tiles, skills, and building a deck before facing the Shogun. The Qaedon Wars instead combines grid battles with army management, campaign objectives, equipment, spells, and permanent unit death. Shogun Showdown is described as rogue-like, with death serving as the start of another attempt.
The Qaedon Wars - The Story Begins: platforms & release
Is The Qaedon Wars - The Story Begins worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy-RPG players who want a long single-player campaign. Skip it if: players seeking short battles, since encounters can last from 30 minutes to more than 2 hours.
Where can I download The Qaedon Wars - The Story Begins?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Qaedon Wars - The Story Begins's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Qaedon Wars - The Story Begins on?
Windows only.
