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Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion
Developer Witching Hour Studios
Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by the Singaporean studio Witching Hour Studios Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine. Released on November 11, 2011, for iOS, Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion is presented in a top-down isometric view and backed by hand-painted 2D maps. Set in the world of Eclisse, the game has expanded to encompass four complete mission… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
76 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest May 29, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
67
Fresh
51 positive · 25 negative
95% range 56–77%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
69 of 106 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 76 · most liked firstWhen I saw the videos and description of Ravenmark, I thought I had stumbled on another hidden gem like Valkyria Chronicles. Alas, there are not much hidden gems and most times you will just pick up another little pebble. Ravenmark is such a disapointment that looked good at first glance. A warning should have been the fact that Ravenmark is an iOS port. While that doesn't mean that it automatically has to be a bad game, there are still some implications that come along with it. Games for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall 6/10 Ravenmark is a turn-based tactical game in a fantasy setting. The player commands a small number of units battle after battle as a story unfolds in the background. Ravenmark is NOT an RPG, there are no role-playing elements whatsoever. Ravemmark is NOT a strategy game, as the player does not manage the army and does not make any decision out of the battlefield. Ravenmark is NOT an interactive story, as the player can only read the story, but cannot interact with at all. PROS: +…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First things first : it's a tactical game, it has no strategic layer whatsoever. You are facing predetermined set of tactical tasks to solve, with abundance of story and lore in and between. Pluses : + Polished. Works as it should, no crashes, glitches or errors at all. + Variety of scenarios. There are lots of different battle situations, including sieges, ambushes, survival, chases, 2-vs-1, terrain hazards, you name it. + Difficulty. Technically two difficulty levels present, Easy and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →See below for Gameplay Footage Another very interesting turn based strategy game from Slitherine. This time, you order units into action (up to 6) but when you end the turn, they move (based on initiative) as the enemy moves. This leads to a feeling of unpredictability to the AI and sometimes the best move actually turns into the worst move, especially if your unit moves after an opponent's. The limitation of orders also gives weight to the formation system in the game. Essentially, you will…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Little, yet not too small fantasy tactical game with turn-based combat. Quite enjoyable for some time, just not take it too seriously, like an AAA-project. It's obviously not. Well, it looks cool enough, it plays cool enough - for some time given. The way I see things - it's worth its price. Especially with some discount or bundle. All the negative reviews comes from one major misconception, tied with the store tags for this game. It is not a RPG for one bit, and it is not a strategy game, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ravenmark Scourge of Estellion is an excellent tactical strategy game with any number of different possibilities in terms of combat. The combat is layered quite deep, as is the exception lore of the gameworld itself. In truth, the Codex itself that comes with the game is worth the price alone. I had the good fortune of receiving an early review copy from the folks of Slitherine. Ive played quite awhile and haven't even cracked the surface of the game. The combat system of the game relies…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disregard the Strategy and RPG tags, this is a turn-based tactical game in a fantasy universe. Literally, there are no strategic or role-playing choices to be made, just a series of different maps. It is however a pretty good tactical game and I find it to be quite enjoyable, but don't expect your actions to make any difference in the campaigns. What breaks it for me is the price. It's just not worth 15 Euro. Make it half that and it's just slightly overpriced. Also, it's painfully obvious…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got really tierd of hearing, It's a ambush! They are behind us! We're surrounded! It's a trap! For a game catering to people who enjoy strategy those really aren't things that should come up that often. The large problem was that there is no way to gain advantage, that every combat the slate was wiped clean and it would start by announcing just what kind of trap your character had blundered into. Those are the reasons I don't like it but I think that will nessesarily ruin it for you. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My first impressions are overall good. As I later found out its a ported IOS game which let me down a little bit. However unlike most Ios games it does not bombared you with microtransactions or anything really. After a few hours of playing it, I feel that they have done exactly what they intended to do with the game. It has a solid interface and smooth animations, however it is a turn based strategy game so the combat or anything else is very small. The lore has the potential to grow on me.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This wouldn't be a terrible game, if not for the incessent loading to a cutscene, only to load to yet another cutscene, and sometimes, to load to yet another cutscene. If the cutscenes themselves weren't so aweful, that wouldn't be as big of a deal.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Duration: 45 Hours All 59 missions - 3 Star. This was a very enjoyable light wargame. The variety in the missions was excellent. From small battles, to all out slug fests, amphibious assaults, sieges, fighting withdrawals, survival, mortars, trebuchets, minefields... wow. This game provided a lot more than I expected. The missions were wrapped in a deep story with a large cast of characters. The numerous campaigns see you leading different forces as the war unfolds. You even get a long…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want strategy and tactics with formations of medieval battlefield - pick Total War. This game has close to nothing in comparison. Every battle is a pre-made scenario in which your troops positions at the start is a complete and total fustercluck. If you still want to give it a try for some inconceivable reason, keep in mind these things: - Formations of 2 units suck - You have command limit. enemy does not - If you told troops to pursue, they will pursue that exact unit, not a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The title feels fresh, awesome and wicked. The graphics are sharp and no hiccups along with a superb story to follow along to that is coupled with some fantastic characters. Even the music is stellar but matches perfectly with the game. You'll have a ton of fun commanding vast armies but unique abilities to be able for other commanders to help out in the battlefield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3lqOmfc-ZI
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I suggest the mobile (iso) version of the game over the pc version. Why? one of the coolest features was in battles when two units fought you would get a neat cut in of both units art work ( kind of like advance wars) however in this version rather then giving an option to turn it off they opted to take it out comepltely. Is this going to ruin the game? No, but as someone that has played both versinos I feel that this version has lost some of the aesthetics charm that made the mobile version…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →if youre like me and have played hundreds of turn based strategy games, you probably wont like this game but if youre new to the genre and very young (or just simpled minded) you might enjoy it the game mechanics could be understood by a six year old,. even so the game forces you to go through a brain numbing tutorial,..i hate forced tutorials,. especially on very basic games not only that but theres tons of crappy rpg syle back and forth text between units,. the kind you find on nintendo ds…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I couldn't get into the game. There were too many characters, locations, and events introduced to the player too fast for the player to understand what was happening in the story. I thought the formation mechnics were hard to manage. Units take turns in a numbered sequence but the UI does not do a good job of presenting this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If it's not on sale for $10 or less I really wouldn't recommend this game. Grand strategy and simplistic combat are not a great mix and that has never been more apparent than in Ravenmark. The game's greatest failure is its lack of ability to provide you information and logistics. You can win the day in a tough battle and the game wont tell you how many waves of enemy forces there are or what directions they're going to come from, allowing them to surprise your general with a random spawn of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →wow i had hopes for this game but its just a pile of boring ♥♥♥♥. with no progression to speak of no unique units.. just a mish mash of ♥♥♥♥ story with boring gameplay... not worth your time at all... NO SKIRMISH MODE! NO UNITE PROGRESSION AT ALL!!!!! this is worse then dynasty warriors 8 dont give these devs a cent. they deserve nothing for the lack of content they provide. time to get a refund. gg
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game fails because the movment system, The AI does not have to guess at all. They will always move to what you have set. So you feel like you are always stumbling with ingame strategy because you are always one step behind. It is also hard to select the exact unit you want in a crowd. Too bad it has a lot of good, yet gets bogged down by bad mechanics. I would not recomend.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Grimmblut's review is spot on: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Grimmblut/recommended/365480/ This isn't a good game. It isn't a bad game. It's just a pretty dull iOS port of a pretty dull game. The art style is mixed - it looks better in screenshots than it does in the main game - but the gameplay is the thing. And that's where it fails. It's stable. It works. Those are positives. But there are two big downsides that I've found thus far: (1) The RPG elements are exceptionally poorly done.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's sh1t. Story line takes you hostage and you're stuck in this static prison of bordem and premeditated battles. No customizing, no kingom building, just your standard premade battles with static units that are just there. 1/10 The 1 is for robbing me of my money. Bravo!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wish steam had a rating system instead of a simple up or down rating system. I would give this game about a 5 or 6 out of 10. It's not the worst turn based game I've played, but it definitly has its issues. There is 0 character or army management. They don't gain experence, you have no say on what units you get in each battle, they're preset for every scenario. That is my biggest issue with the game. There are other problems though. The way turns and movement work is just really bad, units…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tedious troop management and cumbersome formation movement on the battlefield. Furthermore being able to only command 6 units per turn is an incomprehensible restriction. Avoid this game on your search for the next turn based tactics gem, it´s just too uninspiring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very pleasant fantasy setting to put your wargame in. You move blocks of units in a grid based system while using the abilities of your 'heroic' commanders which are attached to certain units. The game has many chapters, good troop variety and a cast you'll grow attached to it. It's miniautre wargaming meets Fire Emblem... and I like what I got!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not gonna lie, I wish I refunded this while i was still eligible. I'm not even particularly sure why...? Bought it bc it seemed similar to Banner Saga, and I guess it falls flat in comparison to that beauty of a game. At least i look at the total review score and see it's "Mixed" and know i'm not alone or weird for not particularly liking this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Surprisingly fun and not even that bad of a story. Just don't expect anything groundbreaking or intense tactical play.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't like it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While I must recommend it for being an actually good GAME, with interesting and very innovative tactics which make sense and are fun and challenging on many levels, being a TRULY good turn based tactics game, I do give this warning: The writing and story are some of the cruelest atrocities you'll have to suffer through, with near endless, completely incomprehensible text, 1000 boring, empty characters introduced as soon as the game begins, and character arcs which are straight off of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd recommend this game but only for those wanting an entry-level strategy game. Probably would have enjoyed it more as a kid than now. Now it's a bit bland to be honest.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most of my play of this fantastic game was on iOS from when it was new in 2011. The PC Adaptation works flawlessly and the controls are just as effective with mouse as touch screen. The battles are hard, the battlefield tactics are solid and resemble a table top miniatures game. While there is a very interesting character driven story line with a host of characters and layers of intrigue, the story is told via cut scenes, this is not an RPG. The world created for this game is deep and very…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ravenmark is one of these solid games which get more disapproval than they deserve. Considering the price tag of 14,99€ it certainly delivers a fair amount of fun and some hours of highly interesting battle scenarios to a fair price. The story is solid and you get the feeling the Devs put their heart into it. It certainly has a fair amount of stereotypical characters which use their own repertoire of catchphrases and lingual oddities, which certainly isn't everyones taste and seems to bug some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite story trying to be interesting (different factions, politics, betrayals) the dialogues are boring to read and characters are quite annoying: Lorrain and Livia (what a surprise, both are women) are arrogant ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who annoy from the first minute on the screen, Thaddeus and Calius (what a surprise, both are men) are pathetic little wimps who can't stand up for themselves. A romance (something I like a lot in videogames) between two protagonists (Livia and Calius) is written very poorly:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →loved this game, love this studio, hope they didnt close
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6/10 - I love this genre and kept an eye on this game for a long time before giving it a go Unfortunately the gameplay mechanics do not produce a satisfying experience and I could not get into it + Indie + Tactical genre Will likely return to give this another go
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm so split on this one. I want to like this game. It has a nicely-tuned rock-paper-scissors tactical combat, every map is a new puzzle that has to be cracked, and quite often you are outnumbered and forced to weasel your way through to victory. And it also has a complex plot that spans for tens of hours. I wanted to experience this plot, because I greatly enjoyed Witching Hour's second game, a phenomenal linear CRPG Masquerada: Songs and Shadows. But here... I just didn't want to play it for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →High Difficulty level. Gameplay is simple but is very hard to master and you'll spend quite a bit of time trying to adapt to each mission and the troops you're given. Story is rather good if you can get past the lack of high quality animations. All things considered, as an indie game, this is a pretty good game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game is good. Real tho, people leaving bad review only because of the low rpg aspect. Yea,you don't gain lv, but you should not see this game as fire emblem, but way much as advance wars. Leader have special capacity and the rest of the unit are generic you command. i'm at chapiter 3 now, and i must say the game do not lack of tactical depth. Some mission are easy, while some have those ''wtf how i'm suppose to deal with this'' moment and then you use your abilitie and you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A quality port of a quality tactics title from devs who clearly enjoy tabletop gaming, tied together with a fantasy soap opera. Not an RPG though, it's a string of simultaneous-turn-based scenarios. They're honest about what they're selling and give a meaty enough campaign here that the parsimony of some reviewers is inexplicable.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →well to be honest its what youd expect from the publishers slitherine somewhat harder than id like the battles are more like puzzles as you try to solve how to win them the lore and story background are very well done and the visuals are really clean and well done. i havent given up on it yet but you need to be a strategy guy/ gal to play this i will reccomend it but beware the caveat its a strategy game and slitherine publish it !!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a mobile ported point based fantasy strategy game where you control armies of medieval soldiers against various enemies in a large campaign. Mobile ports don't belong on Steam and this is a classic example. Everything is massively dumbed down to cater to mobile peasants. On a technical basis, resolution and controls are fixed, there's no real settings to customise at all. This is unacceptable for a PC game. Once more we see greedy mobile devs trying to screw over PC gamers. On…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just boring and crooked in terms of TBS
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have really tried, albeit for under 5 hours, to get into this game but it has just too many things I don't like. Lot's of irrelevant dialogue that you have no interaction with, apart from clicking. The dialogue is baffling too. The actual battles are too simplistic, too repetitive (And I have only been playing 5 hours) and I don't get any sense of accomplishment winning them. I can't reccomend this game no matter the price.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good concept. Got bogged down a little, maybe because it seemed a bit repetitive.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ravenmark Scourge of Estellion is an excellent tactical strategy game with any number of different possibilities in terms of combat. The combat is layered quite deep, as is the exception lore of the gameworld itself. In truth, the Codex itself that comes with the game is worth the price alone. I had the good fortune of receiving an early review copy from the folks of Slitherine. Ive played quite awhile and haven't even cracked the surface of the game. The combat system of the game relies…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks bland, is a mobile port and has the singlemost annoying cutscenes I have seen an a long while. The gameplay itself is okay, but sadly there's so many downsides to accessability as well as the absurdely weird (as well as terribad) story make this a non-recommendation.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Im not actually sure how I felt about this game. On the one hand, it presented a really well polished nice looking unit by unit combat system and a lot of thought has gone into the command structure and how it all works but I'm not convinced this new way over micromanaging units is really needed. I pretty much exclusively play Turn Based Strats and this one is certainly inovative but again, I'm not sure if it really works. One very off putting part of the game is the JRPG style story elements…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a great game for those that like turn based strategy and don't expect much on graphics. It has balanced units and it's greatest asset is the battles. The story is average and the ending is bad the epilogue story is horrible. if I were to rate the story it is starting on 7 going to 5 and ending on 3 out of 10 max. To get the most out of this game you need to get the 3 starts for all battles(not easy). That is the real challenge on some battles you will do fine while others you will need…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm surprised to see the reviews are so mixed for this game; I first played it on iOS years ago and liked it so much that I bought it just to replay it all on PC (and play the Epilogue!). It seems that some people expected more to the game than a series of battles with a storyline - there isn't, but I think the game on its own deserves a lot of respect. For a tactical game that involves so many unique mechanics - formations/flanking, standing orders/command points, turn order, nuanced unit…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I completed Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion and continue to feel it was well worth playing as a story-rich tactical RPG. However, it appears to have a sequel that is mobile-only. All ad copy I can find focuses on the multiplayer element and it is, most regrettably, F2P. This makes the fundamental organizing principle of the game utterly at odds with the story-driven mission structure of the first game. Although I'm fully aware that an engaging story can be told even in a F2P mobile game, the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I've recommended this a few times to people, but I've finally actually fully finished the campaigns. It's a good turn based tactics game with some unique mechanics where turns are resolved all at once so you need to carefully plan your moves factoring in both your own units action speed and enemy movements, otherwise you'll get in your own way. You also have a very limited number of orders you can give per turn, requiring you to rely on building proper battle formations that don't require…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6.5/10 + Well polished, good graphics (for a turn based tactics game) + Decent story + Loads of missions, ok variety of tasks + Fun units - Difficulty is cheap. The AI isn't exactly good, it just has options you don't. you get 6 commands per turn. Computer doesn't have limit. You make all your commands in the pre-turn, the computer takes its choices at every units turn. This means your units will do really dumb things at times if the computer blocks off an intended route for example your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My first few hours of the game I was not impressed by either the gameplay or story. Now the story is a pretentious and silly but it does grow on you the more you cover of the 20+ hour campaign. The gameplay is turn based but you plan all attack and movement orders and execute them simultaneously with your opponent. It works well and I found myself being much more cautious in play than most other titles in this genre. Combine this with a couple of different factions to play with very different…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a great game with many unique features and a good story. Get´s a bit cluttered in later missions where you have to control A LOT of units.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very good game. Very entertaining and a great story and map. 5 stars for the production team.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game starts slow and boring but it becomes very decent later on. 6.5/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is great, I am simply astounded by how much content there is! I'm writing an in-depth review, but I am still no where near the end 0.0
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple, but fun and challenging. Nice story. Good game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've liked the game. The art is simple, but really beautiful. The musics are really cool. The battles are challenging. I've never played a strategy-turn-based game with this mechanics. You must analyse very well the next movement, the exactly order that each unity will move or attack. It's a very interesting game. Maybe the dialogs are a little extensive sometimes for my taste, but that is not a problem actually. There is something that I need to get off my chest: I just got nervous with a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(I'm playing offline that's why it seems I haven't played much) Nice and often challenging game for those who, like me, like this type of game (turned based strategy in heroic fantasy). Its main default, in my opinion, is that it is linear so you are stuck on a level as long as you don't find a way to succeed it (you can't pass the level, you have to succeed it somehow) : The Devs should have allowed to pass any level after 3 failed attempts or something like that, in order to avoid being…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love SRPG's and this one delivers as well. it feels (... so far in the campaign) like a highly tactical grid combat system with cavalry,archers,spearman and infantry in a medieval fantasy setting. One unique thing this game has, is to put the same kind of unit next to each order to boost their quality in a bigger formation, but it also leads to less movement range. Anyway Its a singleplayer campaign with diffrent factions as well, story and characters seem to be fine, nothing bad or great…
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