Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution - French Revolution Alternative History Turn-Based Strategy with Mech and Political Maneuvering

[cyborgboy95]

https://bonapartegame.com

DEMO AVAILABLE NOW!​

Get a taste of the 1789 French revolution!​

With the Early Access launch coming soon, we have assembled this carefully curated demo that will allow you to get a glimpse of what the full game will offer.

This demo offers about 20 to 30 minutes of gameplay and focuses on the Bastille’s tactical assault and its strategic aftermath:

• Side with the masses and lead the Bastille’s assault.
• Join Lafayette and the Moderates, or Robespierre and the Jacobins (the royalist faction is locked in the demo).
• Recruit new battalions and officers to expand your territory and take control of the country.
• Have fascinating political discussions with famous historical figures like Lafayette, Robespierre, Danton and more!
• Witness the escalating tension between the King and the revolutionaries in story events heavily inspired by actual history.

The full game will include the following key features:

• All three major factions unlocked.
• National convention (propose & pass laws to reform to political landscape)
• Colossi factory (build new models to dominate the battlefield).
• Full population simulation (develop support, influence the main demographic groups, and secure your seats in the next elections).
• New battle arenas, building variations, historical events, and more to come!
• Average time per playthrough is around 15-20 hours.

Wishlist the game now and join our Discord community to receive dev updates, and impact the game’s development by sharing your ideas and feedback with the team. Thank you for your support, we hope you enjoy this demo.​

ABOUT THIS GAME​

1789, Paris. Take Napoleon’s place in an alternate history as Céline or César Bonaparte in this ideology driven, turn-based strategy journey. Defend, reform or oppose the monarchy and write your own alternative history by combining cunning political skills and tactical military prowess.​

LEAD OR OPPOSE THE REVOLUTION THAT CHANGED THE WESTERN WORLD​

Play as an alternate Bonaparte and rewrite History by fighting for your ideals. Choose to defend the King, reform the monarchy, or embrace the revolution.

MASTER MECHANIZED TACTICAL BATTLES​

Recruit soldiers, construct mighty Colossi, improve your armies and face your opponents on the battlefield in tense turn-based combat. Outmaneuver the enemy on the battlefield, and exploit their weaknesses to prevail against all odds.

MANIPULATE AN INTRICATE POLITICAL SYSTEM​

Join, fight or overthrow famous historical characters and factions brought to life in a political simulation. Military might alone cannot insure victory, and your ability to navigate the complex political landscape will be an essential tool to reshape France to match your ideals.

 

[Fedora Master]

Steampunk is fucking gay.

 

[Hydro]

Looks extremely boring and gay

 

[JarlFrank]

18th century: cool
musket warfare: cool
adding mechs to the mix: cringe

 

[Galdred]

18th century: cool
musket warfare: cool
adding mechs to the mix: cringe

Mech and rifles/muskets can work. To me, it's more of a mech design issue:

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Mech and rifles/muskets can work.

Indeed they can.

 

[JarlFrank]

I just find it lame when they take a historical setting that's cool by itself and muddy it up with sci-fi tech or magic or some shit, as if they lack confidence that muskets and bayonet charges and grapeshot aren't cool enough on their own.

 

[thesecret1]

Premise seems alright, especially given the ability to join different factions. For whatever reasons, there's women and mechs polluting said premise... Well, whatever. Anyone played the demo? From the screenshots, it seems as though they're trying to combine politics management, GSG elements, and tactical combat, which sounds pretty interesting.

 

[what am i doing]

Anyone played the demo?

I love that time period... in history. Not such a fan of goofy and poorly thought out steampunk (which, unfortunately, is most steampunk). Not a fan of turn-based gameplay either. So I'm giving it a pass. If it was a straight historical game I could live with the turn-based gameplay and give it a try.

 

[Galdred]

Mech and rifles/muskets can work.

Indeed they can.

I still don't get why there is no enhanced edition or whatever for this game. Does it work on modern systems? A lot of old games work poorly with multiple displays.

 

[Parsimonious cook]

>be me
>OMG a FRENCH REVOLUTION GAME!!1!
>mechs
>why?

Why the fuck would you bring mechs into a French Revolution game? Ah fuck...

 

[Parsimonious cook]

Tried the demo, my findings follow below:

- the historical side of things is done pretty well, all the major characters and factions are represented, of course the whole thing gets ruined by the mechs
- the game itself is basically a poor man´s fully turn based Total War (there is a strategic layer in which you build up provinces, recruit and move armies and do all other strat layer-ey stuff, battles are also turn based though)
- there is supposedly going to be deep political aspect, but I cant judge it from the demo as it is not implemented yet, in any case you can visit all the major political clubs (each one has three factions), talk to their leaders and negotiate about stuff
- building stuff is the normal Total War fare (you build a factory in a province and it gets you money each turn on completion etc), the twist is that you need to have political leaders to manage construction projects, which places a significant limitation on how fast you can develop (you have one political leader at the start, I am not sure if you get more as the story develops or if you can actively recruit them)
- the revolution follows the historical path (the first mission is the attack on Bastille, the demo leads up to the king´s attempted escape), you can make a lot of decisions along the way, but it remains to be seen how much influence you actually have on the storyline
- the story starts with you (Cesar/Celine Napoleon) being a captain in the royal guard, you get send in a mech to defend Bastille, once you arrive you can carry out your orders (well, this option doesnt work in the demo though) or defect to the rebels, after that you get inducted into the general assembly and can choose your political club (Royalists, Jacobins, Moderates) and you go from there

What is really sad that there is no reason for mechs to be there (I could stomach the stronk wahmin option I guess, its almost 2025 after all...), the game would work perfectly with just historical units. Instead the combat is all about mechs as they can easily tank massive amount of damage and mog just about anything else. The political stuff could be intersting, the general take on the subject matter is competent.

As it is it is a low budget Total War game with turn based combat, strong storyfaggotry and setting, which gets dragged down by the inexplicable addition of steam punk mechs - without this mech bullshit, I would get it just for the setting. Things being as they are I will probably pass.