Strategy and role-playing meet the Middle Ages: Legacy of Valor wants to follow in the footsteps of Kingdom Come and others with its own ideas, but first it needs to secure funding.
On Kickstarter , the campaign for Legacy of Valor is currently running, a medieval role-playing game that also features strategy elements: Solo developer Filip Husák promises not only a story with dialogues and decisions in an authentic medieval setting, but also castle building, massive real-time battles, and trade and resource management.
Fantastic news for anyone who wants more games like Kingdom Come or Mount & Blade. However, fans will have to pitch in for this game: Legacy of Valor needs $100,000 (about €86,000) in funding. Around €50,000 of that has already been raised. The campaign runs until Sunday, November 9, 2025.
An epic medieval role-playing game – by just one person
There is already a trailer that gives you an overview of the gameplay of Legacy of Valor, which draws equally on role-playing and strategy games:
Apart from the graphics and wealth of features, it is also impressive that the game was created by a single developer who wants to realize his personal dream game. Of course, this comes with many hurdles, especially with such an ambitious game. However, solo developers prove time and again that they are capable of spectacular successes.
According to Kickstarter, Legacy of Valor is essentially a medieval role-playing game with single-player and co-op modes, in which you take on the role of a leader. Not only do you build and manage your own village, but you also make story decisions to make a name for yourself—as a beloved ruler or a bloodthirsty warmonger. This will also influence the world itself and how it reacts to you.
But the story doesn’t end there: once you’ve completed the plot, a sandbox world opens up, which you can gradually conquer at your leisure.
RPG meets construction and management
According to the description, the strategic and dynamic elements go hand in hand in a playful way. You rebuild your destroyed castle and slowly create a village around it, full of houses, farms, and workplaces. No building will be purely cosmetic, so farms produce grain, smiths produce weapons, and so on.
You also have to take care of defensive structures. You raise your own army, equip it, and lead it into battle. In real-time battles, you determine your own strategy and face not only bandits but also other ambitious lords or even the crown.
But it’s not all about fighting: you also establish trade routes and ensure the satisfaction of your citizens, for example by organizing festivals. However, you must also bear in mind that nobles and commoners often have different needs.
Ambitious, but not unreasonable
So much for the base game, which will be developed if the campaign reaches $100,000. If more money is raised, the developer promises some additional features.
Among other things, there is talk of full voice acting (English and Czech, but German texts will be included either way), even bigger battles, and combat on horseback.
The most expensive goals are a whopping $1.6 to $2 million and promise naval battles, modding tools on Steam, or extensive DLC. But to get there, they still need to attract a few more supporters. At least the base goal doesn’t seem completely out of reach given the current participation rate. We will keep you up to date on the financing and development of the medieval role-playing game.
There is no release date yet, but the developer is cautiously eyeing the fourth quarter of 2027 for the Steam launch. A console version for PS5 and Xbox Series is also not out of the question.
