


Players can change their selected characters within a round and can modify the profiles of the custom classes between rounds. At higher levels, horses can be unlocked to allow a cavalry class. However, there are also 8 custom slots to unlock which can be customised with weapons, weapon modifiers, armour and perks of the player's choice. The pre-made characters have a competitive set-up and are viable characters to play.

The player starts with a pre-made melee character, the footman, but will quickly unlock a pre-made Guardsman (originally this was a crossbowman), longbowman and footknight. There are three different types of weapons which the player can equip at a single time: primary, secondary, and a dagger. The game plays mainly in a third-person viewpoint and is a multiplayer game. War of the Roses puts the player in control of a single, customizable soldier fighting for either the House of Lancaster or the House of York. Ī follow-up, War of the Vikings, was released in 2014, but was shut down in 2017. War of the Roses was well received for its extensive customisation enabling character configurations to be tailored to very specific tastes and for its original "control scheme to tackle a new kind of combat with the aim of creating a completely different experience". The game is set during the Wars of the Roses which took place in England during the 15th century. War of the Roses is an action hack and slash video game developed by Fatshark and released by Paradox Interactive.
