Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition
Free medieval real-time strategy built around squad-based battles
Destructive Creations · Released Feb 6, 2018
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 79% of 938
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 2
- daily peak, Oct 29, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 5 years ago
- Mar 9, 2021
What is Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition?
In this history-inspired real-time strategy game, you command Viking, Anglo-Saxon, German, or Slav forces, manage resources, build settlements, and raid enemy camps and towns. The free edition includes four Viking tutorial missions and 17 multiplayer maps for battles against friends or AI.
For you if...
- +you enjoy exploiting terrain and managing troop morale
- +you like coordinating attacks with teammates
Not for you if...
- −you prefer turn-based battles with time to consider every move
- −you avoid violent combat and gore
What players say
79% of 938 reviews are positive
Players praise the combat's resemblance to Company of Heroes and Total War, along with the graphics. Early reviewers raise concerns about faction balance.
Screenshots and trailer
Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition system requirements
Minimum: GeForce GTX 460, 4 GB RAM, 7 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
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- OS
- Windows® 7 (Service Pack 1) , Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 - (64-bit only).
- Processor
- 2.6 GHz Intel® Core™ i5-750 or 3.2 GHz AMD Phenom™ II X4 955
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1 GB VRAM)
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 7 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
Recommended
- OS
- Windows® 7 (Service Pack 1) / Windows® 8 / Windows® 8.1 / Windows® 10 / (64-bit only)
- Processor
- AMD Octa-Core / Intel Quad-Core processor running at 3.4 GHz (AMD FX X8 8350 or Intel Core i5 3570 or newer architectures are recommended)
- Graphics
- AMD/NVIDIA dedicated with at least 2048MB of dedicated VRAM and with at least DirectX 11 and Shader Model 5.0 support. AMD Radeon R9 285 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 and above are recommended graphic cards.
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 7 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
Does Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition have co-op or multiplayer?
Yes: co-op online; PvP online. It also has a single-player mode.
Does Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Age rating
- 17+
- Languages
- Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Japanese.
Does Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
