BORDEAUX, France – Sept. 25, 2025 – Wartales, the medieval open-world tactical RPG with more than one million units sold from developer Shiro Games, presents sellswords with a glorious opportunity to rule as a lord while continuing their main campaigns in Contract: The Fief DLC, launching today on PC via Steam and GOG.
Establish governance over a lawless domain by passing policies, significantly impacting the lives of subjects. Expand the fief district by district and manage essential needs such as food, defense, comfort, and education. Watch new population types peasants, nobles, scholars, and clergy, each vying for influence and control.
Rule with benevolence or tyranny, shaping the fiefdom’s culture and political alignments towards erudition, militarism, commerce, or criminality. Establish long-term influence in the world with this new persistent experience that fuses seamlessly into Wartales’ main campaign.
“Contract: The Fief DLC introduces a layer of progression into Wartales, a long-awaited and requested feature from our fans,” said Quentin Lapeyre, Game Director at Shiro Games. “During each rest cycle, sellswords turned lords must produce and manage resources to meet the evolving needs of their population, adding an additional dynamic element to their mercenary campaign.”
Contract: The Fief DLC is available now on PC via Steam and GOG for $12.99 / €12.99 / £10.99 with an additional 10% launch discount for 14 days. The DLC includes English, French, German, Spanish (Spain), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Korean language support.
For more information about Wartales, please visit the official website and follow the game on X/Twitter, Facebook, or Discord.
About Shiro Games
Shiro Games is an independent Bordeaux-based studio founded by video game veterans Sebastien Vidal and Nicolas Cannasse to bring new innovative games to life. Based in Bordeaux, France, the studio released its first project Evoland in 2013 and its acclaimed sequel Evoland 2 in 2015. Shiro Games then launched its popular Viking strategy game Northgard on Steam in 2018, which has gone on to sell more than 3 million units across various platforms as well as Dune: Spice Wars, the spice-infused blend of 4X and RTS gameplay. Wartales is their latest title, with several major DLC additions since its release in April 2023.
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