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Bravemech: The Century War is an action strategy RPG about mechs. You command a warship in a conflict between two powers and serve as its best pilot. When an alarm sounds, you launch with your squad and fight in side-view, real-time battles; between battles, you walk around the ship, talk with its crew and move across a sector map.

The Century Campaign

The Century Campaign spans a hundred years on either side and has four endings. You choose to fight for the Star Alliance or the Trinity Empire, each with its own cast and route through the war. The campaign features 400 named characters with backstories and more than 9,000 lines of conversation.

The war outlasts any one pilot. You eventually pass command to the next generation and continue as a pilot in their squad, until you retire or the war takes you. The cast speaks English, Japanese and Chinese, with more than 68,000 voice clips; you can set the voice language separately.

Fight in your mech

Battles take place in space or above a planet’s surface, and every mech can fly. You boost and dash, block with an energy shield, manage heat and fight with guns, missiles, a three-hit sword combo and charged beams that enemies can dodge. Buster mechs can transform into jets. If your mech runs low, you can dock with your carrier during a fight to repair and rearm.

Rival aces can retreat and return to challenge you. Defeating a mega boss lets you salvage its Bravecore, the core inside the machine, and build it into your own mech. You can choose a Standard, Minimal or Cockpit HUD; Cockpit view places you in your side’s pilot seat, where your hands follow the stick and gauges flash as you use them.

Command the warship

Before each battle, you choose whether to pilot your mech or command. In Command mode, your squad and ship fight on their own while following orders to hold, attack, guard the ship, dock, form up or break.

On the sector map, six officers appear along the bottom of the screen, and the war advances only when you end the week. You can send idle squads on patrols, salvage runs and drills, trade at ports where prices shift with convoys and raids, and manage your standing with both powers, the pirate clans and the traders. Five weapon makers sell guns that trade one strength for another, so each purchase involves a choice rather than a straight upgrade.

Local multiplayer

Every mode can be played solo or by up to four players on one screen. Friends can fly in your squad in either campaign. VERSUS offers 1v1 and 2v2 mech duels against other players or AI pilots, with AI levels from 1 to 10.

Mechs and pilots

The roster contains 99 mechs across two factions and four roles: blade, heavy, fast and support. They range from mass-produced grunts to custom aces. All 99 can shoot and fight at close range, and 51 can also dash, boost and fire charged beams. You can customize your commander’s face, hair and pilot suit, and buy new outfits at ports.

Campaign options

The game includes a Pilot Campaign that presents the hundred-year war as a roguelite, with one year per run. On Normal difficulty, nobody dies, and pilots who are shot down spend two weeks in the medbay. Hardcore mode is optional: losing the commander or the ship ends the story. You can change the difficulty at any time.

There is substantial story between battles. Auto-play lets your mech fight on its own, and you can take control during any fight.