Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition
Released Feb 2018
Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition represents a part of the full product. Get a taste of medieval battles in this free version of the acclaimed historical RTS! 4 SP missions and 17 MP maps are now available to everyone. Challenge friends, AI, or take part in our League that will start in March!
79% positive · 882 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition is a free, limited version of the full Ancestors Legacy RTS, offering 4 single-player tutorial missions and 17 multiplayer maps. It launched on February 6, 2018 as a permanent free sampler — a fixed promotional product, not a game receiving ongoing content updates of its own.
The developer's most recent communications, from December 14, 2021, focused on promoting their newer title War Mongrels and teasing the possibility of Ancestors Legacy 2. A community league post from November 21, 2023 referenced this free edition as a way for friends to join multiplayer, but announced no new content for it. Neither post introduced new features or content for this free edition.
This edition shipped as a defined, bounded product — a subset of the full game's content — with no post-launch content cycle of its own. It is complete as originally released.
Evidence
Store page defines the Free Peasant Edition as a fixed content offering: 4 SP missions and 17 MP maps, with no mention of planned additions or updates to this edition itself.
Community league announcement references the Free Peasant Edition as a way for friends to access multiplayer, but introduces no new content for this edition.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Destructive Creations
Achievements
0
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP
About this game
Get a taste of medieval battles in this free version of the acclaimed historical RTS – Ancestors Legacy! 4 SP missions and 17 MP maps are now available to everyone. Challenge friends, AI, or take part in our League that will start in March! You need to own Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition to participate.
---------------------------------
Ancestors Legacy, the acclaimed historical RTS, is now open for everyone for free! Try out its single-player Viking tutorial missions and battle your friends (or the game’s AI) on any of the available multiplayer maps! All four nations represented in the game are playable within the 17 multiplayer maps, ranging in size from 2 to 6 players (1v1, 2v2, and 3v3).
Choosing one of the four available nations – Viking, Anglo-Saxon, German, Slav – you will be tasked with more than just conquering, raiding, and pillaging enemy camps, villages, and towns. Only by utilizing the full range of available tactical options, taking strategic advantage of the environment, and managing your temporary bases and settlements, will you emerge victoriously.
Ancestors Legacy is a history-inspired real-time strategy game influenced by historical events in the Middle Ages. The game combines resource management and base building with large-scale, squad-based battles across vast battlefields, all rendered in great detail thanks to the Unreal Engine 4 tech. Experience medieval bloodshed like never before, thanks to the cinematic action camera that puts you right in the middle of the battle at the press of a button.
PURCHASE NOW to gain access to the full 40+ hour single-player experience!
Visit Ancestors Legacy's to learn more!
Features
- 4 single-player Viking intro missions, inspired by historical events
- 17 multiplayer maps (1v1, 2v2, and 3v3) to challenge friends or AI on
- Advanced tactical options combining the use of terrain, experience, and morale
- Cinematic battle camera view puts you right in the center of the action
- Outstanding visual fidelity powered by Unreal Engine 4
- Streamlined resource management and village construction
- Precise controls with native gamepad support (optional)
---------------------------------
Ancestors Legacy, the acclaimed historical RTS, is now open for everyone for free! Try out its single-player Viking tutorial missions and battle your friends (or the game’s AI) on any of the available multiplayer maps! All four nations represented in the game are playable within the 17 multiplayer maps, ranging in size from 2 to 6 players (1v1, 2v2, and 3v3).
Choosing one of the four available nations – Viking, Anglo-Saxon, German, Slav – you will be tasked with more than just conquering, raiding, and pillaging enemy camps, villages, and towns. Only by utilizing the full range of available tactical options, taking strategic advantage of the environment, and managing your temporary bases and settlements, will you emerge victoriously.
Ancestors Legacy is a history-inspired real-time strategy game influenced by historical events in the Middle Ages. The game combines resource management and base building with large-scale, squad-based battles across vast battlefields, all rendered in great detail thanks to the Unreal Engine 4 tech. Experience medieval bloodshed like never before, thanks to the cinematic action camera that puts you right in the middle of the battle at the press of a button.
PURCHASE NOW to gain access to the full 40+ hour single-player experience!
Visit Ancestors Legacy's to learn more!
Features
- 4 single-player Viking intro missions, inspired by historical events
- 17 multiplayer maps (1v1, 2v2, and 3v3) to challenge friends or AI on
- Advanced tactical options combining the use of terrain, experience, and morale
- Cinematic battle camera view puts you right in the center of the action
- Outstanding visual fidelity powered by Unreal Engine 4
- Streamlined resource management and village construction
- Precise controls with native gamepad support (optional)
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
Something about this evaluation looks wrong Report illegal or harmful content