Veterum is a dark-fantasy, hex-based tactics RPG from Crasleen Games, heading to Steam Early Access in November.
You lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers across an open world, recruiting humans, dwarves, elvers, and turans while managing the frictions between races that shape party building, quest outcomes, and who will actually stand beside you when the fighting starts.
Battles play out on a hex grid with systems that reward careful positioning and long-term planning. Line of sight, unit facing, morale, fatigue, tile illumination, and weather all feed into hit chances and survivability.
Maps are fully interactive: you can throw up barricades, dig ditches, chop trees, freeze rivers to create crossings or choke points, and even light fires to keep night creatures at bay.
Pre-battle scrolls let you trigger effects like rain, poison zones, or even deploy a catapult before the first turn. Outside combat, the campaign mixes authored story missions with randomized quests and city inventories to keep routes and loadouts from going stale, while unit growth blends raw stats with active and passive skills.
Difficulty is adjustable as you can set an overall challenge level, then fine-tune parameters such as hit chance, health pools, and reward rates to fit how punishing you want the march to be.
On the tooling side, a built-in level and unit editor plus Steam Workshop support let you create missions, share them, and iterate on balance. Steam Achievements and Cloud saves are supported, and Family Sharing is enabled.
The Early Access build is billed as fully playable with the world map and most missions in place; the final story stages and additional units and decorations are planned during a 6–12 month.
Veterum will launch on Steam Early Access on November 27, 2025, with a free demo already available.
