Astralis: Dawnblades is a heroic fantasy tactical RPG where you lead the Dawnblades, an independent mercenary company operating across a land of kingdoms, ancient magic and rising threats. Prepare your squads, choose your contracts, explore dungeons node by node, survive tactical battles, and bring enough resources home to make the next expedition possible. Every mission asks the same question: push deeper for better rewards, or retreat before wounds, losses and bad decisions cost too much? Lead the Dawnblades You do not play a lone hero. You manage a company. Recruit fighters, assign them to squads, develop their roles, and send the right team into the right mission. Your mercenaries can be shaped through classes, specializations, equipment and combat synergies, so preparation matters long before the first enemy appears. - Build multiple squads with complementary strengths. - Adapt your party to the contract, region and enemy type. - Make choices for a company caught between common folk, powerful rulers and legends that become very real. Prepare at Your Stronghold Between expeditions, your headquarters is the heart of the game loop. Use the barracks to manage recruits and squads, the academy to unlock new tactical options, the guild bank to organize recovered gear, and the crucible to craft or improve equipment. Your base is not decoration. It is where loot becomes strategy. Explore Node-Based Dungeons Expeditions unfold across connected maps filled with battles, events, choices and rewards. Each node can change the state of your mission. A fight can drain your resources. A detour can reveal materials you need. A risky decision can pay off, or leave your squad too weak to finish the route. - Choose your path through hostile regions. - Manage health, resources and momentum across the whole mission. - Decide when to push forward and when to bring the loot home. Turn Loot Into Builds Recovered weapons, armor, accessories and materials feed your long-term progression. Equip useful finds immediately, dismantle what you do not need, and craft gear that supports the way you want to play: durable frontline squads, burst damage teams, control-focused builds, or more balanced groups able to survive the unknown. Fight Tactical Battles Combat is turn-based, readable and built around skill choices, cooldowns, positioning of roles, resistances and synergies between your mercenaries. Every encounter is a tactical problem: choose the right skill, protect the right character, exploit the right weakness, and keep enough resources for the rest of the expedition. Master the MATB Layer MATB is an optional layer over classic turn-based combat. Characters act when their skill charge bar fills, and initiative makes that bar fill faster. Musical tension creates timing windows that boost physical or magical attacks, with critical opportunities when those windows begin. You choose what to do, but also when to do it. Keep MATB off for a more classic pace, or enable it for extra pressure and mastery. A Heroic Fantasy Campaign The Dawnblades travel across regions shaped by rival powers, ancient legacies and creatures that can turn every contract into an adventure. Across a three-act story, contracts become quests of loyalty, courage and command. The question is not only whether your company can win battles, but what kind of force it becomes along the way. For Players Who Want - Tactical RPG combat with clear long-term progression. - A stronghold and squad-management loop between missions. - Dungeon expeditions built around risk, retreat and reward. - Loot, crafting and build decisions that matter. - A heroic fantasy world with narrative choices, regional conflicts and legendary threats. - Optional music-timed combat layered over classic turn-based battles. A Steam demo is available from the button above.
