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About This Game

You Wear the Crown. They Hold the Swords.

Welcome to a fantasy realm where you are the sovereign ruler - but your champions couldn’t care less about your royal commands.

In Bribe The Brave, heroes do not take orders from a mouse click. They are driven by their own courage, greed, and instincts. To defeat encroaching monsters, chart dark frontiers, and safeguard your townsfolk, you must master the ultimate tool of indirect control: the Bounty Economy.

Core Pillars

The Power of the Purse: Indirect Control Forget micro-managing unit formations or clicking to attack. If a menacing beast threatens your outskirts, you don’t order troops to march - you place a pouch of gold over its head.

• Risk vs. Reward: Set bounties for exploration, defense, and hunting. A meager reward might entice an overconfident rogue, while a dragon demands a hoard worthy of a seasoned guild.

• A Closed Economy: Gold paid to your heroes isn't gone forever. Heroes spend their bounty earnings at your local blacksmiths, taverns, and marketplaces, recirculating wealth back into your royal treasury.

Autonomous Heroes: Martial, Rogue, and Arcane Attract distinct archetypes to your kingdom, each with their own AI priorities, appetites for danger, and combat specialties:

• Martial Champions: Stalwart Warriors bearing their guild banners proudly into the fray, holding the frontline and shielding weaker allies.

• Cunning Rogues: Fleet-footed opportunists who prioritize treasure, scouting the fog, and striking high-bounty targets when the odds favor them.

• Arcane Masters: Mystical spellcasters who unleash devastating area-of-effect elemental power from afar, retreating when cornered.

Watch your heroes patrol around town, waiting for offers of gold or deciding to wander into the darkness to seek glory or treasure.

Modular Kingdom Building Your kingdom's foundation rests upon the guilds you sponsor. Expand your settlement with a flexible, modular architecture system:

• Specialized Guildhalls: Construct Barracks, Hideouts, Covens, and other specialized guilds to recruit and support your hero factions.

• Modular Add-Ons: As you expand with specialized guilds your core recruitment buildings (Barracks, Hideout, and Coven) gain unique indicators of the new heroes you can hire there influenced by the specialized guilds.

• City Infrastructure: New buildings take up space and require to be close to your existing structures.  All of these take money which is the only way you can influence units or even hire them so careful management of how rapidly and which buildings you choose to build is crucial.  Gold is a limiting factor to every aspect of the game.

Push Back the Unknown The surrounding wilds are blanketed in a dense, hostile Fog of War concealing monster lairs, lost relics, and treacherous terrain. Post exploration bounties to entice eager scouts into the dark, secure strategic choke points, and eradicate monster nests before they overwhelm your gates.

Key Features

• Pure Indirect Control: A modern spiritual successor to classic kingdom-sim RTS games where you influence, incentivize, and fund rather than micromanage.

• Living Hero Ecosystem: Fully autonomous AI behavior systems where heroes live, fight, rest, and discover according to their own wills.

• Deep Economy Loop: Manage your gold wisely as the only way to gain new gold is find it or by defeating enemies.  Your heroes will return with gold they discover to help the kingdom survive and thrive, but wasteful spending can leave you unable to rally your heroes in a time of great need.

• Stylized Fantasy Aesthetic: Pixar-inspired character models, vibrant stylized realism, and charming fantasy atmosphere.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI tools were used during development to assist with pre-generated assets:

- Visual Assets & 3D Models: Concept art, 2D UI elements/icons, and base 3D models and textures were created with the assistance of generative AI tools, then manually and AI assisted cleaned, rigged, and optimized for the engine.

- Narrative & Writing: In-game lore, quest descriptions, and unit flavor text were drafted and refined with AI assistance.

All AI-assisted content is created prior to release and manually curated. There is no real-time or live AI content generation during gameplay.